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.
"Travel east by train from Moscow and the clip of iron on track beats out the rhythm of your approach to the Ural Mountains."
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Happy Friday! My first line is from “Stay With Me” by Becky Wade:
ReplyDelete“The hallway floor jolts downward beneath my feet, throwing me off balance.”
Happy Friday, thanks for coming by!
Delete"This book is an attempt to explore a strange and rather exotic new area of modern life. It is about the way many of us are being influenced and manipulated - far more than we realise - in the patterns of our everyday lives. Large-scale efforts are being made, often with impressive success, to channel our unthinking habits, our purchasing decisions, and our thought processes by the use of insights gleaned from psychiatry and the social sciences."
ReplyDeleteThe Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (1957).
If you had not included the date, I would have assumed this was a recent publication!
DeleteSarah, your book has a great, seductive title and cover.
ReplyDeleteMy first line is from Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers:
"Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way."
I fell in love with it immediately when I saw it on NetGalley!
DeleteHappy Friday! 🙂
ReplyDeleteToday on my blog I'm sharing from Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson. It's an excellent novel! Currently I'm reading Unveiling the Past by Kim Vogel Sawyer. I'm on chapter 19, so I'll post a line from there.
"It shouldn't surprise us that someone else lives at the address from 1998."
Hope you have a great weekend!
Happy Friday, a week late! So much to do before the end of the school year. Happy Reading!
Deletethanks for sharing. have a great weekend and stay safe
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Thank you Sherry, you as well!
Delete"I tooke my progress northward and went to Newcastle under Line through Stone which was nine mile, and then to Trentum and passed by a great house of Mr. Leveston Gore, and went on the side of a high hill below which the river Trent rann and turn'd its silver streame forward and backward into Ss which looked very pleasant circling about the fine meadows in their flourishing tyme, bedecked with hay almost ripe and flowers; 6 mile more to Newcastle Underline where is the fine shining Channel Coale, so the proverb to both the Newcastles of bringing Coales to them is a needless labour, one being famous for this coale thats cloven and makes white ashes, as is this, and the Newcastle on the Tyne is for the sea-coale that cakes and is what is common and familier to every smith in all villages; I went to this Newcastle in Staffordshire to see the makeing the fine tea-potts cups and saucers of the fine red earth, in imitation and as curious as that which comes from China, but was defeated in my design, they comeing to an end of their clay they made use off for that sort of ware and therefore was remov'd to some other place where they were not settled at their work, so could not see it; therefore I went on to Betely 6 miles farther and went by a ruinated Castle the walls still remaineing called Healy Castle-this was deep clay way; this town is halfe in Staffordshire and halfe in Cheshire one side of the streete in the one and the other in the latter, so that they often jest on it in travelling one wheele goes in Staffordshire the other wheele in Cheshire; here is a great mer or standing water 2 miles compass great store of good fish, it belongs to one Mr Egerton."
ReplyDeleteCelia Fiennes: Through England on a Side-Saddle (1698)
I saw this just a few minutes ago on your blog. That is quote the first line! Thanks for sharing <3
DeleteHappy Friday!
ReplyDeleteThis week on my blog I shared the first line from This Wandering Heart by Janine Rosche but I'm currently reading Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay so I'll share the first line from my current chapter (17) here: "Alyssa was sitting at her dad's old desk sorting through her notes on Jeremy's data when her mom walked through the back door and into the kitchen." Hope you have a great reading weekend!
Happy Friday to you, a week late! Thanks for coming by, Becca.
DeleteI have no idea if these are historic pianos or fictional ones, but that title just grabs me. I want this book!!
ReplyDeleteMy first line is from January River by Bernard Jan: "Ethan McCoy lay in the grass, stretched out to his full length."
They are historical and the story is pulling me in so far. I got it on NetGalley in April, it may still be available!
DeleteMy first line is from Storing Up Trouble by Jen Turano:
ReplyDeleteSeptember 1886
The truth of the matter was this—she, Miss Beatrix Waterbury, had been banished from New York, and all because she’d had the great misfortune of landing herself in jail…twice.
Thanks for coming by and sharing your line, Paula!
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