100 Best opening lines from a book

http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books
Check out this site for the 100 best opening lines in a book
for example our October book choice is part of this collection:

"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."

Summer Reading

Our July August book is Palace Walk by Nabuib Mahfouz, and our first Nobel Prize winning selection.

Reviewed by Daniel Pipes

Washington Times
February 12, 1990

Palace Walk is the greatest novel of Naguib Mahfouz, the Noble Prize winner for literature in 1988; and it and the two other parts that round out the Cairo Trilogy may well be the masterpiece of Arabic literature in the twentieth century.


In Palace Walk (the name refers to a major street in the old part of Cairo), Mahfouz details the process of modernization in Egypt from the ground up through the story of a single Cairene family, the 'Abd al-Jawads, in the course of a single year, 1919.

June Bookgroup Meeting

Molly was the wonderful hostess for our June book club meeting. We had a grand time, there was book talk, yummy food, drinks and a good-luck red velvet/mocha cake for Beth...not good-bye. All in all a wonderful way to start the summer.

(from Author's website)
The Zookeeper's Wife is about one of the most successful hideouts of World War II. It's a tale of people, animals, transcendence, and subversive acts of compassion.


ORION MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES THE WINNER

OF THE 2008 ORION BOOK AWARD

Diane Ackerman's The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (W. W. Norton) has been selected to receive the 2008 Orion Book Award, which is conferred annually to a book that deepens our connection to the natural world, presents new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieves excellence in writing.

"The Zookeeper's Wife is a groundbreaking work of nonfiction," said selection committee member Mark Kurlansky, "in which the human relationship to nature is explored in an absolutely original way through looking at the Holocaust." Kathleen Dean Moore, the committee's chairperson, said: "A few years ago, 'nature' writers were asking themselves, How can a book be at the same time a work of art, an act of conscientious objection to the destruction of the world, and an affirmation of hope and human decency? The Zookeeper's Wife answers this question."

 

There was a lively discussion about the book as well as other life stuff...We also wished Beth luck as she made the move up north to the Seattle Starbucks HQ. Rory had this very special "Coffee Cake" made in her honor. Yummy!