Lark Writes...on books and life

Books with great first lines grab me every time; here are a few books I've recently read where the lines that followed were just as good...

On Herta Műller's The Land of Green Plums. The First Line:  When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we d...

Like Stella Gibbons and Barbara Pym, Dawn Powell is an author whose novels are often overlooked and underappreciated. Born in Ohio in 1895...

Franz Eybl - Girl Reading, 1850 "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." -...

"...it's the people that matter." Partitions by Amit Majmudar 1947 was a turbulent time for Muslims, Sikhs, and Hi...

     The Beach Case. It sounded so trifling, he thought. A beach and a case. So harmless. But he himself had never called it the beach ca...

Swedish proverb:  Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and a...