Bookends of Brilliance

But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended. "Crime and Punishment", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Bri...

"Call me Ishmael." Herman Melville , "Moby-Dick" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's first note sets the tone for a musical journey,...

"And thus, almost in the very footsteps of the shadow of Norgate and Bonney, my house was turned into a church." Aldous Huxley, "Point Counter Point" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of...

"I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time." Salman Rushdie , "Midnight's Children“ This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's fi...

"The wake itself remains, etched out across the water’s surface; then it fades as well, although no one is there to see it go." "C", by Tom McCarthy . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of...

"The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created." "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe", by Douglas_Adams . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and...

"An excellent year’s progress." "Bridget Jones’s Diary", by Helen Fielding . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's first note sets the...

"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." "Middlesex", by Jeffrey Eugenides . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox....

„In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.“ John Irving, "The world according to Garp" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symp...

"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon." William Golding , "Lord_of_the_Flies“ This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impac...

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good." "East_of_Eden", by John Steinbeck . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's...

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." Dodie Smith , "I Capture the Castle“ This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's first note sets...

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both." "Charlotte’s Web", by E.B. White . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary ope...

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." C.S. Lewis , "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader“ This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closi...

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." Aldous Huxley , "Brave New World" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact...

"This is the story of a man named Eddie, and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun." "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of...

"It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." The Dead ( James Joyce ) This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Explor...

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of l...

„I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.“ Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy This captures yet another profound revelation fr...

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." "The Year of Magical Thinking", by Joan Didion . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact o...

"There is another sky, Ever serene and fair." Emily Dickinson , "Another Sky" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of literary openings and closings. Just as a symphony's first note sets the...

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." "Ulysses", by James Joyce . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact o...

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Charles Dickens , "A_Tale_of_Two_Cities" This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring...

"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three." - "Howl’s Moving Castle", by Diana Wynne Jones . This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance...

"But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt." "The Color Purple", by Alice Walker. This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Brilliance is an engaging podcast series exploring the art and impact of...