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Tag: WOL
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 21st
From Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel: “Henry’s second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 14th
From Yellowface, from R. F. Kuang: “The night I watched Athena Liu die while celebrating her TV deal with Netflix…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 7th
From Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee: “History has failed us, but no matter. At the turn of the century…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 30th
From The Island of Missing Trees, by Elif Shafak: “Once upon a memory, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 23rd
From Malgudi Days, by R.K. Narayan: “Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 16th
From The Mystery of Three Quarters, by Sophie Hannah: “Hercule Poirot smiled to himself as his driver…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 9th
From The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood: “Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Nov 2nd
From The Mysterious Affair at Styles, by Agatha Christie: “The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as ‘The Styles Case’…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 26th
From Island Beneath the Sea, by Isabel Allende: “In my forty years I, Zarité Sedella, have had better luck than other slaves…”
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Weekly Opening Lines – Oct 19th
From The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis: “I debated for a time as to whether I ought to open these memoirs…”
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