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 posted this week.
***You might have noticed an increase in recent weeks of books written by Black and African-American authors in a variety of genres. Since the murder of George Floyd and the spotlight once again shining on the mistreatment of our Black Brothers and Sisters, I am working on amplifying voices that often get shouted down. I have started a #BlackLivesMatter Reading List and would love any suggestions over on that page. My main contributions so far have been of non-fiction, big surprise, so I am looking for fiction especially.***
"By day, I'm an honors student at Jefferson Academy. At night, I turn into the Nubian goddess most people know as Emerald."
Leave a comment and let me know what you think, and leave a link to your FLF so I can stop by to see what you've posted this week.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"As recently as the 1970's, doctors were boldly proclaiming the beginning of the end for infectious disease. They thought their arsenal of vaccines for preventing viral disease and broad-spectrum antibiotics for treating bacterial infections could handle any threat. But disease was never dead, or even in remission."
ReplyDeleteInfectious Disease - A Very Short Introduction by Marta l Wayne & Benjamin M Bolker
Oi. Glad to see how accurate they were in their predictions *facepalm*
DeleteOh, and I've added a few BLM type books to my Amazon Wish List. You might have already mentions 1 or 2 but I thought you'd like to see what I came up with....
ReplyDeleteAfropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Tulsa, 1921 by Randy Krehbiel
The Burning by Tim Madigan
These are great, thank you!! I am especially interested in Afropean and will be checking the library for it. Thanks for contributing to my reading list!!
DeleteOh wow, that line has me intrigued!! Have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteIt's FANTASTIC! I could not put it down. The main character has created a video game called Slay, and runs it with a fellow coder who lives halfway across the world. She created the game for Black people to play to have as a space of their own away from the racism that they otherwise deal with in more white-centered settings. She is completely anonymous and not even her parents and sister know she has created this game, or that she is Emerald. But then a member is killed in real life over coins from the game and it brings a lot of attention to Slay. You do have to suspend SOME belief, because it would be hard for the creator of such a popular game with so many users to stay anonymous, but I found that those things did not bother me in the least. The book is fabulous and I will keep shouting it from the rooftops!
DeleteMy first line this week is from an Appalachian Summer by Ann Gabhart:
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Piper Danson’s cheeks hurt from smiling for what seemed like hours with no relief in sight.
Excellent book as always from Ann.
Glad you are enjoying the book, thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteHappy Friday!!
ReplyDeleteOver on my blog I shared my first line this week is from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from Chapter 15 since that's were we stopped reading last night!
"Snow was swirling against the icy windows once more; Christmas was approaching fast."
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2020/07/first-line-friday-harry-potter-and-half.html
Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks for sharing your line, hope you have a great week!
DeleteDude! That's an awesome beginning!
ReplyDeleteI should describe myself like that too.
"By day, I'm a special education teacher who's currently enjoying her summer break. At night, she's an Aztec goddess that dances her feelings away..." lol
https://vonniesreadingcorner.blogspot.com/2020/07/first-line-fridays-july-3rd.html
DeleteI fully support this idea! (also, the book is amazing.)
DeleteI am also a special education teacher. I had a self-contained behavior skills classroom for seven years, then this past year moved to resource.
Happy Friday!
ReplyDeleteToday on my blog, I'm sharing the first couple of lines from Molly by Sarah Monzon: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2020/07/03/first-line-friday-142/. I'm currently on chapter 6, so I will share from there.
"An eighty-hour work week -- that's all the hospital was allowed to work the interns and residents per the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. But when I'd gently reminded Dr. Feinburg of that fact after he'd assigned me to continue care for the patient admitted earlier, I'd been loudly and matter-of-factly put in my place."
Hope you have a great weekend filled with family fun and relaxing reading time. 😀❤📚
Thanks for sharing your line!
Delete"Illegitimacy and an almost obsessive preoccupation with his step-father were constant themes in the life and works of James Baldwin." From James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming.
ReplyDeleteOK... I *have* to check that out! He's BRILLIANT! (Baldwin that is!).
DeleteExcellent line! I need to add his work to my reading list!
DeleteToday, I'm sharing the first line from A Mosaic of Wings by Kimberly Duffy: "Nora Shipley's ears buzzed as though a thousand bees were trapped inside her head."
ReplyDeletehttps://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/07/first-line-fridays-mosaic-of-wings-by.html
Thanks for sharing your line!
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