What’s the first line of the book you’re currently reading?
What’s the first line of the book you’re currently reading?
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What’s the first line of the book you’re currently reading?
I circled the frostblood warrior, my boots kicking up dust from the drought-dry Earth.
Sentence makes me want more. Book?
Fireblood, book 2 in the frostblood trilogy
@Kurio nice tnx
Anytime. Hope you enjoy it
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Bobby Garfield’s father had been one of those fellows who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by the age of forty-five or so.
Leah Rose prided herself on thinking under pressure.
In the last days of February 1994, articles began appearing in Gloucester’s evening newspaper about human remains being uncovered under the garden of a house in the city.
@Kristyn what book is it? I’m already intrigued!
@Evelyn It’s Fred & Rose, a true crime book about Fred and Rose West.
@Kristyn thanks!
This is not the beginning.
At three o’clock in the morning, a woman named Nora Chancel, soon to be lost, woke up from the usual nightmares with the usual shudder and began for the thousandth time to check her perimeter.
“One of the things I despised most about being on the Las Vegas Paranormal Police Department, better known as the PPD, was having to see the psychiatrist.” Grave Creatures by John P. Logsdon & Christopher P. Young.
YOU walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn’t slam.
@Emily love this book
Is it You lol?
Never mind, I checked my copy ?
This city is not mine by birthright: I was born over three thousand miles away in sleepy town in the heart of England.
@Robyn what book is this?
Fairytale of New York
There was a girl who lived by the sea
It was a solecism of the worst kind.
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
Victor readjusted the shovels on his shoulder and stepped gingerly over an old, half-sunken grave.
Malorie stands in the kitchen, thinking.
Made me almost cry lol
Sorry… not the first “line” ?
Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo’s child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me.
~ Kushiels Dart by Jacqueline Carey
I LOVE THOSE BOOKS.
@Elizabeth I love the Kushiel series.
Then let’s be besties ladies because I know of no one else who has read them! ?
@Elizabeth I have them in print format. Kindle format and audio format. That should say how much I like them.
Good book. Second one is on my to read table.
There was blood on the Council dais, blood on the steps, blood on the walls and the floor and the shattered remnants of the Mortal Sword.
SHORTLY BEFORE BEING KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS and bound to a chair, before being injected with an unknown substance against his will, and before discovering that the world was deeply mysterious in ways he’d never before imagined, Dylan O’Conner left his motel room and walked across the highway to a brightly lighted fast-food franchise to buy cheeseburgers, French fries, pocket pies with apple filling, and a vanilla milkshake.
@Nicki is this Dark Matter?
@Kayte Dean Koontz “By The Light Of The Moon”
It sounds just like the opening to Dark Matter! Ill have to read this!
@Kayte Now I want to know about Dark Matter
The main character (who’s name I cant remember ?) gets knocked out and when he wakes up his wife doesn’t know him and his son no longer exists and he doesnt know why. It’s very good!
@Kayte ?
I definitely recommend it!
@Kayte thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
The terror which would not end for another 28 years – if it ever did end – began, so far as I know or can tell, a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
I’m working on that one as well 🙂
@Christle I’m enjoying it so far
In the fifth century of the Fifth Age in the realm of Alorin, the Adept Malachai ap’Kalien wielded the itinerant power widely referred to as elae to create – nay, not a mere dimension as is so widely professed – but an entirely new world, whole cloth, out of Alorin’s own aether.
since I am currently reading 4 Lol here is the first line of all of them 1.In the beginning was the sleeping dragon, Godith. number 2. The Rio Grande was not just murky. number 3. EVEN BEFORE HE GOT ELECTROCUTED
The Nazi officers are dressed in black. – The Librarian of Auschwitz
Lieutenant Commander Takeo Ogawa glanced at his wristwatch and shook his head in irritation. Black Wind by Clive Cussler
Darling, it’s been a long time since I heard from you, but I keep writing, in the hope that you are receiving my letters. The House of Birds , Morgan McCarthy.
Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache. (re-read)
SUCH A GOOD BOOK.
It’s a wonder everyone who uses public transport in winter doesn’t keel over and die of germ overload.
When the Royal Society of Abyssinia discovered ‘The Hopkins Manuscript’ two years ago in the ruins of Notting Hill it was hoped that some valuable light would at last be thrown upon the final, tragic days of London.
I am an old man now, but then I was already past my prime when Arthur was crowned king.
@Natasa what’s the name of the book? I recognize this…
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. Really good read so far!
Jude lifted the heavy practice sword, moving into the first stance—readiness.
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He saunter’d Europe round,
And gather’d ev’ry vice on Christian ground; . . .
The Stews and Palace equally explored,
Intrigued with glory, and with spirit whored;
Mists spiralled up from the water like breath as Eamon rowed the little boat. The sun shed pale, cool light as it woke from the night’s rest and set morning birds to their chorus. He heard the cock crow, so arrogant and important, and the bleating of sheep as they cropped their way across the green fields.
Anne can feel the acid churning in her stomach and creeping up her throat; her head is swimming.
The two men appeared out of nowhere a few yards apart in the narrow moonlit lane.
It was an odd looking vine. Dusky variegated leaves hunkered against a stem that wound in a stranglehold around the smooth trunk of a balsam fir.
“I buy violets for Amy” – Hidden Bodies (Sequel to You) by Caroline Kepnes
Nicholas Young slumped into the nearest seat in the hotel lobby, drained from the sixteen-hour flight from Singapore, the train ride from Heathrow Airport, and trudging through the rain-soaked streets.
A typewriter reinvented my destiny. – The Time In Between by María Dueñas
“Shadows, Wick thought sourly as he studied the treacherous mass of darkness at the end of the long bookcase, are foul and nasty things.”
The Rover, by Mel Odom.
“Lale rattles across the countryside, keeping his head up and himself to himself.” The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
First line of prologue: “Humans see the world in a cascade of color, with eyes that can distinguish any single shade from more than a million others.” First line of Chapter One: “Forty miles west of Florence, in a fertile Tuscan valley not far from the Mediterranean Sea, lies the serene and sunlit city of Lucca”
That is a beautiful first line. what book is that from.
https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Red-Empire-Espionage-Desire/dp/0060522763
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.” and “Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.”
The first suicide arrives one early October night.
Colin Ferguson woke up with a hangover, alone in an unfamiliar double bed.
My life will forever be divided into two parts: before the fire and after the fire. (Unmasked – Turia Pitt’s story)
I circled the Frostblood Warrior, my boots kicking up dust from the drought-dry earth.
How far are you?
@Kurio 85% done.
Goodreads says I’m 71%. Plan on finishing it today and starting the last one while waiting at the dealership
@Kurio I’m hoping to finish today and start on next one too. ?
That reveal, my response was purely “fuck”. So of course I’m like, based on one line alone I’m telling you you have to read this to a friend of mine. She’s always looking for new books
Yeah. ? I’m starting off this year finishing series I’ve started in past. I didn’t want to stop reading last night. Had to force myself to put book down and get some sleep.
I had to stop or I knew I’d finished it and then I’d have nothing to read during my long wait today
My backlog of books to read is overwhelming.
Oh I have a ton to read still, but I can only fit so many in my backpack
Just finished. Onto the next one
Bram stares at the door.
Pinch myself and say I’M AWAKE once an hour. (Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough)
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
Ivy Fitts sat tall and straight, model of attention for the last minutes of the last morning of the last day of school.
Sneaking Suspicions by Carolyn Coman.
“I powered up the transporter and said a silent prayer.” Binti
The relaxing scent of lavender in the hand cream that Jeanette Brioche was massaging into her cramped fingers did absolutely nothing to calm her jittery nerves.
Chaol Westfall former captain of the royal guard and hand to the newly crowned king of Adarlan had discovered that he hated one sound above all others. Wheels.
Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, “I have come from Alabama; a fur piece.
Faulkner – Light in August
Many years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen, who went up to heaven and came down again thanks to his boots. From We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen.
‘Dead things had always been special to him.’