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.
"One rainy Sunday in March, I opened a box of books Mom had brought home from Grandmother's house. Although Grandmother had been dead for five years, no one had unpacked any of the boxes. They'd been sitting in the attic collecting dust, their contents a mystery."
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 and 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
Happy Reading,
Sarah
My first line comes from Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters:
ReplyDeleteIn the face of small-town news, all creativity left Vivian DeMarco.
Thanks for sharing Paula, happy reading!
DeleteYou should never have to apologize for middle grade love. ;) MG books deserve all the love, too! This has a really pretty cover, and the first line sounds super interesting. Old, previously undiscovered books are always fun.
ReplyDeleteHere's my First Line Friday post.
I am so glad you understand!! I loved these spooky type books as a kid and that love has not left me. I am also discovering new authors who I know my students would like. Happy Reading!
DeleteNice selection! My first line comes rom the new Mary Higgins Clark book, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry: https://www.bookclublibrarian.com/2019/11/friday-focus-friday-56-book-beginnings_14.html
ReplyDeleteThank you Catherine, happy reading!
DeleteOver on my blog, I am sharing 4-fabulous first lines from the just-released-today new book, The Highlanders (A Smitten Historical Romance Collection). Do stop by and check it out! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming by, Trisha. Hope you have a relaxing, book-filled weekend!
DeleteHappy Friday!
ReplyDeleteToday on my blog I'm sharing the first line from Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano:https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/11/14/first-line-friday-110/. It's SO good. I'm currently on chapter 17, so I'll share the first line from there.
"Can't thank you enough, Reginald, for insisting on accompanying Poppy and me as we search for that peddler," Murray said from the far side of the sleigh, staunchly ignoring the frown Poppy, who was squished in between Reginald and Murray, was sending him.
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 🙂❤📖
Happy Reading, Nicole! Thanks for coming by, here's to lots of quality reading time this weekend!
Deletethis sounds wicked good. my kind of book. i love everything about it, starting with that fabulous cover!
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I really liked it and would say it is among my fave MDH books. That's not to say it wasn't a little predictable, reading it through the eyes of an adult. But it was still really good and I highly recommend it to lovers of middle grade fiction!
Delete"Even in Los Angeles, where there is no shortage of remarkable hairdos, Harry Peak attracted attention." From The Library Book by Susan Orlean about the LA Public Library fire of 1986, libraries in general and the crime behind the fire. You would love this book!
ReplyDeleteI AM LOOKING FOR IT RIGHT NOW AT MY LIBRARY!!!!
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ReplyDeleteI think you'd like it, and it is a quick read!
Delete"The telegraph, telephone, radio, and especially the computer have put everyone on the globe within earshot - at the price of privacy. It may feel like we're performing an intimate act when, sequestered in our rooms and cubicles, we casually use our cell phones and computers to transmit our thoughts, confidences, business plans, and even our money. But clever eavesdroppers, and sometimes even not-so-clever ones, can hear it all. We think we're whispering, but we're really broadcasting."
ReplyDeleteCrypto: Secrecy and Privacy in the New Code War by Steven Levy.
This is one of the truest things I have ever read in my whole entire life.
DeleteHappy Friday! Today I'm sharing the first line from the prologue of One More River to Cross by Jane Kirkpatrick: "Mary Sullivan stood outside the circle of men, watched through the triangle of elbows as they nodded and commented about the markings the Paiute drew in the dirt."
ReplyDeletehttps://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/11/first-line-fridays-one-more-river-to.html
Happy Reading to you, and thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from “Because of You” by Becky Wade:
ReplyDelete“Maddie Winslow met the man of her dreams the same day that her friend Olivia introduced Maddie to her new boyfriend. Which would have been splendid, except that the man of Maddie’s dreams was Olivia’s new boyfriend.”
Ouch, that would definitely sting!
DeleteThis week on my blog I shared the first line from Heart of a Royal by Hannah Currie. It's also my current read so I'll share the first line from chapter 22 here: "The reception had been going on for hours--and no one seemed in any rush to end it." Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your line, happy reading!
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