TIOLI April 2014 - First sentence with seven words!

Hi, challengers!

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Some books I found:

1. The Commitments (We’ll…know) – Roddy Doyle
2. Dance Dance Dance (I…Hotel) – Haruki Murakami
3. A Free Life (Finally…visa) – Ha Jin
4. Hidden America (He…chip)– Jeanne Marie Laskas
5. Homeland and Other Stories (My…Clan) – Barbara Kingsolver
6. In the Loyal Mountains (It…winter) – Rick Bass
7. It’s Beginning to Hurt (Joseph…hands) – James Lasdun
8. The Way Through Doors (Young…you) – Jesse Ball

Looking through my TBR pile, I found two possibilities. They're both strange and a bit obscure, so I don't know how helpful they'll be to others, but here goes:

Broken Piano for President (Hi...President) - Patrick Wensink
Surfing Samurai Robots (Earthpeople...expected) - Mel Gilden

Obscure books are great!

Here's what I have found so far:

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (The...cold) - Ben Fountain
Laura (The...quiet) - Vera Caspary
Little Caesar (Sam...street) - W. R. Burnett
Snack Thief (He...way) - Andrea Camilleri
The Snowman (It...came) - Jo Nesbo

I found a couple:
Consider Phlebas (The...name) by Iain M. Banks
East of Eden (The...California) by John Steinbeck

The White Family by Maggie Gee (Albion...morning)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers (People....born)
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness ('War'....glinting)

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams (This isn't at all what I expected.)

Amendment of Life by Catherine Aird ('Toss you for it?' said Pete Carter.)

Venus in copper by Lindsey Davis (Rats are always bigger than you expect.)

Last act in Palmyra by Lindsey Davis ('Somebody could get killed here!' Helena exclaimed.)

Death of the Duchess by Elizabeth Eyre (From this very bed she was snatched!)

Have space suit, will travel by Robert A. Heinlein (You see, I had this space suit.)

Menace under Marswood by Sterling E. Lanier (Slater awoke quickly and saw the monster.)

The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters (The portrait was that of a man.)

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree.)

The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett et al (Once upon a time, there was Discworld.)

Throne of Isis by Judith Tarr (Once, the chamber had been all gold.)

I found on my reading list:

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields: My mother's name was Mercy Stone Goodwill.

Thanks, all for your suggestions. Keep 'em coming!

Also, Caleb's Crossing (He...Day)by Geraldine Brooks

My LT wishlist yielded these 7-word starting sentences:

When did we lose Harriet? by Patricia Sprinkle
The step was steeper than Harriet expected.

Day after night by Anita Diamant
The nightmares made their rounds hours ago.

A house in the country by Jocelyn Playfair
"Well, the Government damn well ought to --"

The outcast by Sadie Jones
There was nobody there to meet him.

Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
"Could you model for me tomorrow, Lyd?"

The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
On the boat we were mostly virgins.

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The small room was warm and moist.

The earth hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
I fly in my sleep every night.

The house of God by Samuel Shem
Except for her sunglasses, Berry is naked.

The sea captain's wife by Beth Powning
Whelan's Cove is a place of departures.

The language of flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
For eight years I dreamed of fire.

Rush home road by Lori Lansens
It stinks of piss in the room.

Chicago death trap by Nat Brandt
Eddie Foy was "coming home" to Chicago.

Into the arms of strangers by Mark Jonathan Harris
Looking back, I had a wonderful childhood.

A monster calls by Patrick Ness
The monster showed up just after midnight.

After some searching through the TBR stacks I finally found a book that fits the challenge.

I'm reading The Famished Road by Ben Okri. The first sentence is "In the beginning there was a river".