Thursday, January 23, 2020

First Line Friday #91


First Line Friday is brought to you by Hoarding Books. Playing along is easy: open the book nearest you and share the first line. Then check out the link to see the other first lines offered up this week.

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"The New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein began with the most promising source refusing even to get on the phone."

It's too bad this book was not better. Kantor and Twohey are not great authors in long-form and I should have learned my lesson about Kantor from her book on President and Mrs. Obama. Such a wholly important moment, and all the survivors, deserve a much better book.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Happy Reading,
Sarah

18 comments:

  1. I haven't read anything by these authors, but I certainly agree that the victims deserved the best of writers to tell their stories.

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    1. Kantor is irksome and I should have know better. But I thought with a co-author there would be something better. Sadly, it was not. I am looking forward to giving Ronan Farrow's own book on the subject, "Catch and Kill". Just waiting for the book to come in at the library!

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  2. Happy Friday!
    Today on my blog I am sharing the first line from More Than We Remember by Christina Suzann Nelson: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2020/01/24/first-line-friday-120/. It's definitely an emotional read! I'm currently on chapter 16, so I will share the first line from there.
    "'Are you kidding me?' Emilia slammed down the phone."

    I hope you have an excellent weekend filled with fun reading time!

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  3. too bad. i think books like these can be very difficult. i just read bloodshed, about school shootings. it's fiction, but i thought i would get more involved.
    sherry @ fundinmental

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    1. It was so disappointing! I am waiting on Ronan Farrow's "Catch and Kill" to come in for me at the library. I am optimistic that his book will be much, much better.

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  4. Happy Friday! Today I'm sharing the first line from Lake Season by Denise Hunter: "The house was eerily silent."

    https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/01/first-line-fridays-lake-season-by.html

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  5. Happy Friday! I’m sharing from Walkabout, by James Vance Marshall on my blog today. Here is the first line from chapter 2:

    “The advance guard of sunlight filtered into the gully, turning the night to powdery opaqueness.”

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  6. Happy Friday!
    The book I shared on my blog this week is Veiled in Smoke by Jocelyn Green but the book I'm just about to start is The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay so I'll share that first line here: "People parted around us in the courtyard." Hope you have a wonderful weekend with plenty of quality reading time! :)

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  7. "I first met Zia, then a brigadier, in Amman, where he was deputy head of the Pakistan Military Mission to Jordan. It was just after Black September, 1970, when after months of provocation and mounting fears of a PLO coup, the pro-Western King Hussein finally took action against them and their leader, Yasser Arafat."

    War Against the Taliban - Why it all went Wrong in Afghanistan by Sandy Gall

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  8. "That spring the rain fell in great sweeping gusts that rattled the rooftops."
    The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. There was so much description in this novel set in Alaska that I started to skim those parts.

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    1. Completely understandable. There are only so many ways you describe a place before you are repetitive.

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  9. My first line is from End Game by Rachel Dylan:
    “I think they may be keeping dead bodies in their condo.”

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    1. That would definitely be a terrible selling point, haha. Thanks for sharing!

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