Day 10, Saturday. Opening lines from five favourite books

Hello and Happy Saturday!  For our blog today there will be no poem (maybe) because of the subject matter.  How can I possible include the opening lines of a book in a poem.  So maybe with some great graphics I can make this post stand out all the more.  I of course would like to add that as these are the opening lines to a book they will not be portrayed as mine.  These authors deserve all the credit for these great pieces of works and of course if anything is off or not quite right (even though I try to be as accurate as I can be but nobody is perfect) I wholeheartedly take the blame.  

 As most anyone knows I am an avid reader so narrowing my choices down to just five was like pulling teeth!  Anyway without further ado here they are!

1.  The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman 

     EVESHAM ABBEY, ENGLAND - JANUARY 1271

    " There were no stars.  The sky was the color of cinders, and shadows were spilling out of every corner."

2.  Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman

     NEFYN, NORTH WALES - DECEMBER 1236

    "Just before midnight on the eve of Christmas, the storm swept in off the Irish Sea, struck the hamlet that 

      had grown up around the manor house of Gruffyd Ap Llewelyn, Lord of the Cantref of Lln."

3.  Echoes by Danielle Steel

     "It was a lazy summer afternoon as Beata Ittgenstein strolled along the shores of Lake Geneva with her parents."

    

4.  The Girl in the Gatehouse by Julie Klassen

      September 1813

    "The end of the only life I've known thought Mariah Aubrey , looking back through the carriage window at the shrinking figures of her mother and sister."

5.  All my Love, Detrick by Roberta Kagan

     Berlin Germany, 1923

  "Inga Haswell sipped steaming tea from a chipped china cup as she gazed at the second hand bicycle."

And thank you to all the authors.  They are all on Amazon if you are interested in buying and reading their work.