Thursday, November 21, 2019

First Line Friday #82


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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"'Take good care of this girl,' Miss Beatty told the coachman, 'She's an orphan, you know, and never set foot out of London. Make sure she gets where she's going safely.'"

You'll have to excuse the middle grade love I will be showing the next couple weeks. Around Halloween I went on a Mary Downing Hahn binge after finding her newest book at our school book fair during conferences. I requested a bunch of her books from the library that I hadn't read, due to them being published while I was in college (or later).


Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Happy Reading,
Sarah

20 comments:


  1. My first line is from A Match For Emma by Pepper Basham:
    Molly Caudwell needed a perfect match, and Emma Mitchell was the woman to give the newest waitress her very own happily-ever-after.

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  2. "The man came out of the twilight when the greenish yellow of the sun's last light still lingered in the west." from Time and Again by Clifford Simak... love Simak's mind...

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  3. "How do come to be written?" from The Fox by Dubravka Ugresic, translated from the Croatian.

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  4. Oops. "How do stories come to be written?"

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    1. Too funny, I read the line as 'How do words come to be written?' in your initial post - I did not even notice anything was missing!

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  5. Happy Friday! My first line is from “A Match for Emma” by Pepper Basham:

    “Molly Caudwell needed a perfect match, and Emma Mitchell was the woman to give the newest waitress her very own happily-ever-after.”

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    1. Another one! Paula shared this line also. Hope you enjoy the story as well!

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  6. "Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only happen in eighties movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he just got me. Just once, I want my life to be like an eighties movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."

    Life Moves Pretty Fast - The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies.... (& Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Any More) By Hadley Freeman

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    1. I MUST READ THIS BOOK!!! The Breakfast Club remains one of my fave movies ever.

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    2. I'm pretty much racing through it at the moment. She didn't pick all of my favourite 80's Teen movies but she does touch on a lot of them. It's actually much better than I thought it would be - plus I've been saying to myself often, as I turn the pages, "Oh, I bet Sarah would like this". Can't wait for your review of it! [lol]

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    3. I've placed a hold on it and it says it is available at my preferred library pick-up location. We are now on Thanksgiving break, so as long as the roads are fine tomorrow, Eleanor and I will be heading to the library!

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  7. Happy Saturday! Today, I'm currently reading On My Honour by Elizabeth John's, so I'll share from there.

    "Meg looked down at her hands, which were raw from lye soap. How did people do this every day?"

    Hope you're having a good weekend filled with awesome reading time and rest. 😊❤📖

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    1. Rest is a must - only two more school days for us until Thanksgiving break, woohoo!! Then, LOTS MORE READING TIME!

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  8. Happy Saturday! Today I'm sharing the first line from Unscripted by Davis Bunn: "The entire Beverly Hills jail was nonsmoking and air-conditioned."

    https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/11/first-line-fridays-unscripted-by-davis.html

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    1. Hope your week is off to a great start, thanks for sharing your line!

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