Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

first lines of books

322 replies

Blandmum · 15/02/2006 17:08

Nice easy one to start us all off

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'

Book and Author then you give one.

No googling allowed

OP posts:
WigWamBam · 15/02/2006 18:35

Twiglett ... A Prayer for Owen Meany

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:35

right country albatros

OP posts:
albatros · 15/02/2006 18:35

I think you might be right Twigglet

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 18:36

twiglett - A prayer for Owen Meany?

Blu · 15/02/2006 18:36

MB: A pasage to India

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:36

good girl blu!

OP posts:
JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:36

Passage to India - Forster?

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:37

Easy one:-

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 18:38

Little Women!

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:39

fab book little women. Do you know, when I first read it I was so dim I didn't realise it was set in the american civil war

Loved Jo. Amy was an arse and I half wanted the wet beth to croak

OP posts:
SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:39

'"Christmas won't be Christmas without presents!" grumbled X, lying on the rug.'

[not X, obviously. Extra point for the name!]

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:40

Damnit. Great minds and all that.

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:40

jo???

OP posts:
Whizzz · 15/02/2006 18:40

"I will not - drink more than 14 alcohol units a week"

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:40

LOL mb!!!!

(I hated Amy as well, but liked ol' Beth 'cos she played the piano!!!)

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:41

wtf is a pickled lime????

OP posts:
Mazzystar · 15/02/2006 18:41

No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that this world was being watched

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:41

Extra point for mb (not going to be Saintly Meg or Beth the Martyr though so I reckon it was 50/50 Jo or Amy!)

SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:41

War of the Worlds?

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:42

oooohhhhscary one massy

war of the worlds

OP posts:
SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:44

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow...

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:45

Anne of Green Gables? - can't remember who wrote it!!!

Original poster
Blandmum · 15/02/2006 18:46

anne of greegables

another fab book Mongomery

OP posts:
SorenLorensen · 15/02/2006 18:46

That's my favourite book of all time - comfort reading - literary mashed potato.

JonesTheSteam · 15/02/2006 18:46

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.