Bookends of Brilliance

"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law." "A Frolic of His Own", by William Gaddis 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....

"I am haunted by humans." "The Book Thief", by Markus Zusak . 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 musi...

"It was the day my grandmother exploded." "The Crow Road", by Iain Banks 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...

"And I rose up and knew that I was tired and I continued my journey." Jack Kerouac , "On the Road" 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'...

"The early morning was colourless, and impersonal, and the birds were not yet in tune." D.H. Lawrence , "Sons and Lovers" 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 closin...

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working." Kenneth Grahame , "The Wind in the Willows" 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 explo...

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." Nicole Krauss , "The History of Love" 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...

"But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing." A.A. Milne, "The House at Pooh Corner" 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 en...

"In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together." Carson McCullers , "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" 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. J...

"The sun on the altar in the west window lay in the shape of a cross, even as the Phrygians had known it would." Marion Zimmer Bradley , "The Mists of Avalon" 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 i...

"All children, except one, grow up." J.M. Barrie , "Peter Pan" 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 mus...

„In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.“ Charles Bukowski , Post Office 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 op...

„Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.“ D.H. Lawrence, from Lady Chatterley's Lover 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. Ju...

„The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.“ JK Rowling , Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows 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. Ju...

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." - George Orwell , 1984 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'...

"This is followed by a sigh, then a slight shrug and another sigh, and above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.“ Bret EastonEllis , American Psycho This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collecti...

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains." Ernest Hemingway , A Farewell To Arms 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 ar...

"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before." Mark Twain, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curated exclusively by Cala Vox. Bookends of Bri...

"In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black coats, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES." Roald Dahl , The Witches 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 seri...

"All my ups and downs. My personal rollercoaster. Not so much a rollercoaster - a rollercoaster's too smooth - a yo-yo rather - a jerking, spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child, more like, trying too hard, too impatiently eager to learn how to operate his new yo-yo.“ William Boyd, Any Human Heart This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literar...

"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can’t ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can’t lose what you lacked at conception." James Ellroy , American Tabloid This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closings,' a collection curate...

But the hands of one of the gentlemen were laid on K.’s throat, while the other pushed the knife deep into his heart and twisted it there, twice. As his eyesight failed, K. saw the two gentlemen cheek by cheek, close in front of his face, watching the result. “Like a dog!” he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him. Franz Kafka , The Trial This captures yet another profound revelatio...

"The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn." Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring Literary Openings and Closin...

"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east." Aldous Huxley , Brave_New_World This captures yet another profound revelation from 'Bookends of Brilliance: Exploring...

"It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not." Paul Auster , The New York Trilogy 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 pod...