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.
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"For eight millennia, men have won glory coaxing soldiers onto bloodstained fields to which only a few intrepid women have ventured."
I'm mainly here for Boudicca. I could not care less about QEI.
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
"The circumstances which I am about to relate to my juvenile readers took place in the year 1647."
ReplyDeleteChildren of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat (love FM's books; they're well written, exciting and witty"
I do love a good wit!
Delete"I am born."
ReplyDeleteThis Book Is Not For You by Daniel A Holt. (very strange book)
How so? I am curious.
Delete"From the outset Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte had a great ambition for Paris."
ReplyDeleteParis Reborn - Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City by Stephane Kirkland
I try and try and try, but none of the Napoleons are interesting to me. Even the most famous one.
DeleteMy first line is from Hours to Kill by Susan Sleeman:
ReplyDeleteThe brutal killer put a knife to her mother’s throat.
Thank you for sharing your line!
DeleteThat first line makes me want to keep reading!
ReplyDeleteIt was a good read, and I met a few women I had not heard of before.
DeleteI have no FLF but I love the sound of this book! Warrior queens are awesome.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, they are!
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