Book Reviews & The Written Word » Opening Lines http://www.writtenword.com Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:56:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver http://www.writtenword.com/the-bean-trees-by-barbara-kingsolver/ http://www.writtenword.com/the-bean-trees-by-barbara-kingsolver/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:39:24 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=1815 Opening lines: I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw New Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. I'm not lying. He got stuck up there. About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but los his hearing an din many other ways was never the same afterward. They said he overfilled the tire."

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]]> http://www.writtenword.com/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez/feed/ 0 My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier http://www.writtenword.com/my-brother-sam-is-dead-by-james-lincoln-collier-and-christopher-collier/ http://www.writtenword.com/my-brother-sam-is-dead-by-james-lincoln-collier-and-christopher-collier/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:39:43 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=1632 My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier is a post from: Written Word, the online book review site

]]> http://www.writtenword.com/my-brother-sam-is-dead-by-james-lincoln-collier-and-christopher-collier/feed/ 0 Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood http://www.writtenword.com/oryx-and-crake-by-margaret-atwood/ http://www.writtenword.com/oryx-and-crake-by-margaret-atwood/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:24:06 +0000 Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot http://www.writtenword.com/?p=1469 Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood is a post from: Written Word, the online book review site

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