The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The first sentence from each chapter of The Name of the Star, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.
* All first sentences are from an ARC I read via Around The World ARC Tours
* Book will be released on September 29, 2011
* Spoilers are highlighted like this :)
“THE EYES OF LONDON WERE WATCHING CLAIRE JENKINS.”
“IF YOU LIVE AROUND NEW ORLEANS AND THEY THINK a hurricane might be coming, all hell brakes loose.”
“I WAS IN A FOYER PANELED IN DARK WOOD WITH A mosaic floor.”
“SO,” CHARLOTTE CHIRPED, AS I STUMBLED AND SLID over the cobblestones, “where are you from.?”
“I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING TO FIND TWO STRANGERS in my room—one mom-looking type, and the other a girl with long, honey-blond hair wearing a sensible gray cashmere sweater and a pair of jeans.”
“LIFE AT WEXFORD BEGAN PROMPTLY AT SIX THE NEXT morning, when Jazza’s alarm went off seconds before mine.”
“THE SAN WAS THE SANATORIUM—BASICALLY, THE nurse’s office.”
“THE NEXT DAY, IT RAINED.”
“WHEN YOU LIVE AT SCHOOL, YOU GET CLOSE TO people really quickly.”
“IT DIDN’T TAKE A GREAT DEAL OF INSIGHT TO KNOW that Jazza was not going to want to go to a crime scene that evening.”
“Veronica Atkins sat at her desk in her top floor flat, overlooking the Flowers and Archers.”
“THE AUTUMN OF 1888 WAS KNOWN AS THE AUTUMN of Terror.”
“THE POLICE ENCOURAGE LONDONERS TO TAKE EXTRA caution this evening.”
“IT HAD TURNED INTO A CRISP, PERFECT AUTUMN night.”
“THE NEXT MORNING STARTED WAY TOO EARLY, WITH someone pounding wildly at our door.”
“JAZZA WAS PACING OUR ROOM WHEN I RETURNED.”
“THE WHITE TENT WAS THERE ALL WEEKEND, AS WAS the press.”
“THE BBC IS USED TO DEALING WITH FREAKS, CRANKS, and psychos.”
“THE POLICE PACKED UP BY MONDAY MORNING, AND the press left as soon as the white tent came down.”
“THE NEXT MORNING, WE TOOK A FINAL LOOK AT OUR room as it was before we headed off to breakfast.”
“GATORS ARE JUST SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT where I come from.”
“THE NEXT MORNING, I HEADED OFF TO ART HISTORY with Boo at my side.”
“SO I GOT TO RIDE IN A LONDON POLICE CAR.”
“AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY where my parents teach, you can see parakeets in the trees.”
“JEROME DIDN’T FORGET.”
“CLEARLY, JEROME AND I HAD A COMPLICATED THING going on.”
“GHOSTS, ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET:
Souls, spooks, shades, poltergeists, reverants.”
“DAMN, IT FELT GOOD TO BE A RIPPEROLOGIST.”
“STEPHEN WAS DRIVING WITH A GRIM, FIXED INTENSITY.”
“IT WAS ALMOST THREE IN THE MORNING WHEN STEPHEN dropped me off at Wexford, but there were lots of lights on in the windows.”
“ON SUNDAY, I WOKE AROUND FIVE IN THE MORNING.”
“WE WERE IN A SMALL SQUARE OUTSIDE OF A CHURCH.”
“AGAIN, I WOKE UP AROUND FIVE IN THE MORNING.”
“IT WAS A LONG NIGHT, AND I WASN’T SURE WHAT WAS worse—the terror I was just managing to keep at bay or the boredom.”
“A LONG SILENCE GREETED THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.”
“ONE THING ABOUT STEPHEN—HE COULD REALLY drive.”
“IN 1888, MILLER’S COURT WAS A DARK OFFSHOOT OF Dorset Street, known as “the worst street in London.”
“WE WERE SITTING IN THE POLICE CAR ACROSS THE street from Regis House.”
“THE SPIRAL EMERGENCY STAIRS , MADE AROUND 1890, hadn’t been improved since then.”
“THERE WAS A SOUND FROM THE STEPS, ONE SMALL groan from Stephen as he heard me say these words.”
“AT HEALING ANGEL MINISTRIES, COUSIN DIANE reads people’s auras.”
“WHEN I WOKE AGAIN, IT WAS DAYLIGHT.”
“SO MY UNCLE WILL HAS THESE EIGHT FREEZERS UP IN his spare bedroom.”
“IF YOU LIVE AROUND NEW ORLEANS AND THEY THINK a hurricane might be coming, all hell brakes loose.”
“I WAS IN A FOYER PANELED IN DARK WOOD WITH A mosaic floor.”
“SO,” CHARLOTTE CHIRPED, AS I STUMBLED AND SLID over the cobblestones, “where are you from.?”
“I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING TO FIND TWO STRANGERS in my room—one mom-looking type, and the other a girl with long, honey-blond hair wearing a sensible gray cashmere sweater and a pair of jeans.”
“LIFE AT WEXFORD BEGAN PROMPTLY AT SIX THE NEXT morning, when Jazza’s alarm went off seconds before mine.”
“THE SAN WAS THE SANATORIUM—BASICALLY, THE nurse’s office.”
“THE NEXT DAY, IT RAINED.”
“WHEN YOU LIVE AT SCHOOL, YOU GET CLOSE TO people really quickly.”
“IT DIDN’T TAKE A GREAT DEAL OF INSIGHT TO KNOW that Jazza was not going to want to go to a crime scene that evening.”
“Veronica Atkins sat at her desk in her top floor flat, overlooking the Flowers and Archers.”
“THE AUTUMN OF 1888 WAS KNOWN AS THE AUTUMN of Terror.”
“THE POLICE ENCOURAGE LONDONERS TO TAKE EXTRA caution this evening.”
“IT HAD TURNED INTO A CRISP, PERFECT AUTUMN night.”
“THE NEXT MORNING STARTED WAY TOO EARLY, WITH someone pounding wildly at our door.”
“JAZZA WAS PACING OUR ROOM WHEN I RETURNED.”
“THE WHITE TENT WAS THERE ALL WEEKEND, AS WAS the press.”
“THE BBC IS USED TO DEALING WITH FREAKS, CRANKS, and psychos.”
“THE POLICE PACKED UP BY MONDAY MORNING, AND the press left as soon as the white tent came down.”
“THE NEXT MORNING, WE TOOK A FINAL LOOK AT OUR room as it was before we headed off to breakfast.”
“GATORS ARE JUST SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT where I come from.”
“THE NEXT MORNING, I HEADED OFF TO ART HISTORY with Boo at my side.”
“SO I GOT TO RIDE IN A LONDON POLICE CAR.”
“AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AT THE UNIVERSITY where my parents teach, you can see parakeets in the trees.”
“JEROME DIDN’T FORGET.”
“CLEARLY, JEROME AND I HAD A COMPLICATED THING going on.”
“GHOSTS, ACCORDING TO THE INTERNET:
Souls, spooks, shades, poltergeists, reverants.”
“DAMN, IT FELT GOOD TO BE A RIPPEROLOGIST.”
“STEPHEN WAS DRIVING WITH A GRIM, FIXED INTENSITY.”
“IT WAS ALMOST THREE IN THE MORNING WHEN STEPHEN dropped me off at Wexford, but there were lots of lights on in the windows.”
“ON SUNDAY, I WOKE AROUND FIVE IN THE MORNING.”
“WE WERE IN A SMALL SQUARE OUTSIDE OF A CHURCH.”
“AGAIN, I WOKE UP AROUND FIVE IN THE MORNING.”
“IT WAS A LONG NIGHT, AND I WASN’T SURE WHAT WAS worse—the terror I was just managing to keep at bay or the boredom.”
“A LONG SILENCE GREETED THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.”
“ONE THING ABOUT STEPHEN—HE COULD REALLY drive.”
“IN 1888, MILLER’S COURT WAS A DARK OFFSHOOT OF Dorset Street, known as “the worst street in London.”
“WE WERE SITTING IN THE POLICE CAR ACROSS THE street from Regis House.”
“THE SPIRAL EMERGENCY STAIRS , MADE AROUND 1890, hadn’t been improved since then.”
“THERE WAS A SOUND FROM THE STEPS, ONE SMALL groan from Stephen as he heard me say these words.”
“AT HEALING ANGEL MINISTRIES, COUSIN DIANE reads people’s auras.”
“WHEN I WOKE AGAIN, IT WAS DAYLIGHT.”
“SO MY UNCLE WILL HAS THESE EIGHT FREEZERS UP IN his spare bedroom.”
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