Dr Mardy Grothe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr Mardy Grothe

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Shirley Jackson, opening line of The Haunting of Hill House (1959) #openinglines https://t.co/PQZjy3X495

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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. L. Frank Baum, opening line of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) #openinglines https://t.co/L50nyzghJl

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I have a fatal flaw. Emily Henry, opening line of Beach Read (2020) #openinglines https://t.co/o2rhLf5y0V

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. F. Scott Fitzgerald, opening line of The Great Gatsby (1925) #openinglines #firstsentences https://greatopeninglines.com/novels#1032

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Neither can drive. David turns sixteen the following March, Sarah the following April. It is early July, neither one within sight of sixteen, and the keys to a car. Susan Choi, opening words of Trust Exercise (2019) https://t.co/Tw8Q8kTVKt

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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James, opening line of The Portrait of a Lady (1880-81) #openinglines https://t.co/cgZvLJL7Xl

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Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead. Matthew Perry, in Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (2022) #openinglines #firstsentences #firstlinefridays https://t.co/vwDHZRw8jA

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Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified. Margaret Atwood, opening words of The Testaments (2019) #openinglines https://t.co/jk43EA240B

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Leonardo da Vinci had the good luck to be born out of wedlock. Walter Isaacson, opening line of Leonardo da Vinci (2017) #openinglines #firstsentences https://t.co/AbcGgFn7O9

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Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charms as the Tarleton twins were. Margaret Mitchell, opening line of Gone With the Wind (1936) #openinglines https://t.co/5cvW3SMwOM