Sunday Sentence 1/19/2020

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Daniel Sukegawa, David Abrams, OneWorld Publications, Sunday Sentence, Sweet Bean Paste

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

All the time he had ever squandered in his life seemed to be clinging to his footsteps, dragging him down.

 

SOURCE:Sweet Bean Paste (One World, 2017), a novel by Durian Sukegawa

 

 

(Belated) Sunday Sentence 7/14/19

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#readwomen, David Abrams, Paper Son, Pegasus Crime, SJ Rozan, Sunday Sentence

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

She pulled her head back into the kitchen like an annoyed turtle.

 
SOURCE: Paper Son (Pegasus, 2019), a novel by S.J. Rozan

 

 

Sunday Sentence 7/9/17

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#readwomen, Ashley Shelby, David Abrams, Picador, South Pole Station, Sunday Sentence, women novelists

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

My father’s a frustrated explorer, so I’m on a first-name basis with a lot of dead men.

 
SOURCE: South Pole Station (Picador, 2017), a novel by Ashley Shelby

 

 

 

Sunday Sentence 12/11

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Alice Hoffman, David Abrams, Here on Earth, Sunday Sentence, Women writers

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

The rain sounds like music from a distant planet.

SOURCE: Alice Hoffman‘s novel Here on Earth

 

 

Sunday Sentence 6/19

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American classics, David Abrams, Fathers and Sons, Hemingway, short stories, Sunday Sentence

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

There had been a sign to detour in the center of the main street of this town, but cars had obviously gone through, so, believing it was some repair which had been completed, Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street, stopped by traffic lights that flashed on and off on this traffic-less Sunday, and would be gone next year when the payments on the system were not met; on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger; out past the last house and onto the highway that rose and fell straight away ahead with banks of red dirt sliced clearly away and the second-growth timber on both sides.

SOURCE: Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Fathers and Sons” from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

 

 

Sunday Sentence 6/12

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Charms for the Easy Life, David Abrams, Kaye Gibbons, Sunday Sentence, Women writers

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

She told me she had a wild-animal sort of babyhood.

SOURCE: Kaye Gibbons‘ novel Charms for the Easy Life

 

 

Sunday Sentence 6/5

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David Abrams, Haruki Murakami, japanese authors, novellas, Sunday Sentence

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

It is the inherent right of all writers to experiment with the possibilities of language in every way they can imagine—without the adventurous spirit, nothing new can ever be born.

SOURCE: Haruki Murakami‘s dual novellas Wind/Pinball (introduction)

 

 

Sunday Sentence #34

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Aidan Turner, Cornwall, David Abrams, Eleanor Tomlinson, historical fiction, Poldark novels, Sunday Sentence, Winston Graham

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Falmouth smiled, a very contained smile, carefully poured out, like a half measure of some valuable liquid and not to be wasted.

SOURCE: Winston Graham‘s novel The Four Swans (the sixth Poldark book)

 

 

Sunday Sentence #33

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David Abrams, Nashville Review, Nicole Rollender, Sunday Sentence, The Lacemaker, women poets

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

I’m often mistaken for an unhappier woman – though
in the Metropolitan’s Dutch wing, I crack a smile
at Maes’ painting of a young mother quietly sewing
lace.

SOURCE:  Opening line from Nicole Rollender‘s poem “The Lacemaker” from Nashville Review Spring 2015 issue

 

 

Sunday Sentence #32

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Chimney Fire, Claudia Emerson, David Abrams, late wife, LSU Press, Southern Messenger series, southern poets, Sunday Sentence, women poets

 

My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

I learned to dread winter early,

before fall showed any real sign

of itself, the world still filled

with locusts, crickets, bees in the boneset,

ashen moths quickening the dusk.

SOURCE:  Lines from Claudia Emerson‘s poem “Chimney Fire” in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Collection Late Wife (LSU Press, Southern Messenger Series)