Once Upon a Time, there was Lipstick and Goons

Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book

Soooo many good beginnings. Here are four favourites:

"The trouble started the day Howard came home from school to find the Goon sitting in the kitchen." (Archer's Goon, Diana Wynne Jones)

DWJ kicks arse at openings. In this one, the first novel of hers that I knowingly read and the one that set me on an addiction that would continue for more than a decade, the first chapter sets up the situation: Howard and his sister Awful come home to find a...