The first sentence game

[Dale]

Another clue - The title's first word is a sport very popular in Australia in summer.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Swimming Home???

[Dale]

Phrynne wrote: "Swimming Home???"
Yes, Phrynne. Well done! Your turn.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Your clue worked for me!

"Muriel Donnelly, an old girl in her seventies, was left in a hospital cubicle for forty eight hours "

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

The movie was great fun and the book was even better,
That's the one Michael. Your turn.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

Need a clue please:)

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

Really? Ummmm....

[Carolyn]

Don't think I've read this one.

[Kim Marie]

Is it Outside the Lines by Amy Hatvany?

[Kim Marie]

Thanks Michael, it was fun following your clues :)

"I had always been a great talker and teller of tales."

[Kim Marie]

It's a fairytale retold

[Kim Marie]

Another clue? A well known Australian author.

[Natty]

I'm on my mobile so can't link it but it's Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth...great book :)

[Kim Marie]

Yes, that's right Nat so your turn now :)

[Natty]

Ok here goes.. 'Everything in the room screamed that I didn't belong'.
1st clue as it may be a toughy is its a young adult

[Dale]

This seems to haves stalled. Think we may need another clue, Nat.

[Natty]

that it has ...2nd clue: American author
3rd clue : two worded title
4th clue: check my read list for inspiration :)

[Natty]

Nat wrote: "that it has ...2nd clue: American author
3rd clue : two worded title
4th clue: check my read list for inspiration :)"

So this one has completely stalled and failed.. haha...nat made it too difficult...so it was the young adult / new adult book Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire...is there any one else who wants to have a go... feel free :)

[Kim Marie]

I think I've tracked it down to Survivor by
Lesley Pearse?

[Kim Marie]

Here's an easy one to keep the game going..."I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem."

[Carolyn]

I think that has to be The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion!

[Kim Marie]

Sure is Carolyn....your turn now :)

[Carolyn]

This one will be easy too for those who have read the book:

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

[Carolyn]

Need some clues? The author's initials are J.E. He's American and won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, written in 2002. The first sentence is a good hint about the book's name and content.
Phrynne, Bette and Suzanne have read it and it's on a lot of other tbrs.

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

I have indeed read it. It is from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

This should be an easy one:)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

[Carolyn]

Well done Phrynne!

I know yours but will give someone else a go first :)

[Leonie]

Ha! I know that one! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Lessa woke, cold.

[Marianne]

Yes, we already had it, post number 80

[Phrynne, Series Queen!]

You have a good memory Marianne. I don't :)

[Marianne]

Only because I was the one who posted it!

Sorry, Leonie, no idea about your quote.

[Carolyn]

The name Lessa is familiar, but I think we might need a hint please Leonie :)

[Leonie]

OK, hint: Sci-fi, classic, dragons.

[Carolyn]

The only classic that comes to mind is one of McCaffrey's?
I devoured her books when I was young but I can't remember if one of the dragonriders was called Lessa or which book she was in.

[Leonie]

Carolyn wrote: "The only classic that comes to mind is one of McCaffrey's?
I devoured her books when I was young but I can't remember if one of the dragonriders was called Lessa or which book she was in."

Yes, right author Carolyn :)

[Leonie]

And it was an early book. A very early book.

[Dale]

Leonie wrote: "And it was an early book. A very early book."

Dragonflight?

[Leonie]

Dale wrote: "Leonie wrote: "And it was an early book. A very early book."

Dragonflight?"

Yes! Well done, Dale!

[Carolyn]

Well done Dale! I couldn't remember what the first book was called. Was a great series though!

[Dale]

'The telegram read: I have leave.'

[Dale]

Got it in one Michael. Well done. I knew a number had read it. Your turn.

[Carolyn]

Hmmm! The only female Chinese American author I think of is Amy Tan?

[Marianne]

I think Michael's too busy meeting other Aussie Readers at the moment to reply.....

[Carolyn]

Oh yes, I realise that, but he'll see it eventually when he has time to go back on line. Just thought it was good to keep things moving unless someone knows the answer.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

I know another Chinese American female author - Tess Gerritsen

[Carolyn]

Brenda wrote: "I know another Chinese American female author - Tess Gerritsen"

Just learned something new! I didn't know she is Chinese American. I'm sure there are quite a few more I should be thinking of and it'll be really obvious when Michael tells us.

[Brenda, Aussie Authors Queen]

It's fascinating isn't it! No idea about a book to match though :/

[Kim Marie]

By a process of elimination Michael I hope it's Vanish :)

[Kim Marie]

"I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other."

[Kim Marie]

Need a clue? There is a movie version from 2011 and it does involve an animal.

[Jude]

Water for Elephants

Sorry, on my ipad so can't link.