January 24, 2005

Good First Lines?

Recent reads:

Sharyn McCrumb, The PMS Outlaws
"If he stayed chained naked to this post much longer, there just wouldn't be any afterward to the foreplay."

Elizabeth Berg, Ordinary Life "A Love Story"
"Mavis MacPherson is locked in the bathroom and will not come out."

Louise Rafkin, Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
"I wasn't a particularly tidy child."


1 comment:

Jennifer said...

E. Berg is my hero. Her words are extraordinary, without fail. Just Real.

I wrote a whole long post about Mavis and me not so very long ago.