First Line Friday #213

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

We probably think we know what we mean by a book.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #212

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

It's dark.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #211

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

That July night seemed full of posibility, with the empty highway stretching out before us.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #210

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Wander down a small alley off London's Fleet Street and you'll find a pub with a crooked, creaky charm.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #209

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

On the night of April 18, 1908, in the railroad town of Bellefontaine, Ohio, eighteen-year-old Chales Demar walked into the fruit shop he owned with his uncle, Salvatore Cira, and put a bullet into his uncle's head.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #208

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

In 1558, when John Knox, the radical Scottish religious reformer, published his misogynist tract, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, he called attention to what was strangely true in the middle of the sixteenth century in Europe: a remarkable number of women had ascended to supreme governmental power.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #207

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Jolting along in his buggy through the freezing night, gripping the seat with his free hand, Dr. MacGregor Porter could see the bonfire from the road.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #206

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

When I was nine years old, I was smacked for calling my little brother a 'twat'.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #205

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Despite the oppressive heat, a vast crowd had gathered, pushing and sweating their way into the wide plaza in front of the entrance and spilling over into the boulevards leading to the venerable centuries-old cathedral.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #204

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

It was the eve of Epiphany, 1537, a night of the most dazzling moonlight.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #203

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

As President-elect Abraham Lincoln's train prepared to chug noisily out of the Great Western Railroad Depot in Springfield, Illinois, on a cold, wet February 11, 1861, security officials far to the east worked overtime to prevent his aassassination.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #202

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

The young girl lay tuked in her bed, her small body wrapped in a black habit of a Benedictine nun. Under her cap, her hair was clipped short in a quick and rough job. In the distance, there was a swelling commotion. Footsteps approached.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #201

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

That was the year she started spending her winters in New York again.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #200

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

On the late afternoon of Friday, 30 June 1559 a long splinter of wood from a jousting lance pierced the eye and brain of King Henry II of France.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #199

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Liverpool Street Station was once the biggest railway station in the biggest city in the world.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #198

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

They are called 'the mists of time' for a reason.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #197

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Dublin's Four Courts have been the centre of legal life in Ireland for over two hundred years.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #196

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Able, vengeful, focused, selfless and implacable, Tom Clarke was the spider at the centre of the conspiratorial web.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #195

 

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

In the beginning, human beings created a God who was the First Cause of all things and a Ruler of heaven and earth.

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Sarah

First Line Friday #194

First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.

Charles Raymond Starkweather was neither as ordinary nor as complex a person as commonly portrayed.

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Sarah