tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post5194180429991478881..comments2024-03-18T02:02:51.107-07:00Comments on CBCA Tasmania blog: IN THE BEGINNING…CBCA Tasmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13175617441683356572noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post-47112542245121182332013-08-13T04:16:14.867-07:002013-08-13T04:16:14.867-07:00'The past is a foreign country: they do things...'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.'Chris Donnellynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post-42970425413295227232013-08-13T03:57:13.415-07:002013-08-13T03:57:13.415-07:00Friday Brown - Vicki Wakefield
The Children of the...Friday Brown - Vicki Wakefield<br />The Children of the King - Sonya Hartnett<br />Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone- JK Rowling<br />The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien<br />Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell<br /><br />and one of my favourites for making you want to read on;<br />"Sophie couldn't sleep." (The BFG, Roald Dahl).<br />and a more recent yet equally brief opening line I love;<br />"The hamster was dead." (Ratburger, David Walliams).<br /><br />I also loved Julie Hunt's opening line in Song for a Scarlet Runner; "Marlie and I lived at the Overhang, near the place where three roads met." This does for me exactly that which Lyndon describes above - drives me forward to discover more about this person, this place and what has happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7080763276453498935.post-4119648482753545242013-08-11T21:46:04.182-07:002013-08-11T21:46:04.182-07:00Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (JK R...Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (JK Rowling), Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell), The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien), The Children of the King (Sonya Hartnett) and Friday Brown (Vikki Wakefield). And I agree, The Graveyard Book is fabulous! Tehani Wesselyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11745568705129833233noreply@blogger.com