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.
"When I got off the plane at LAX three decades ago, I knew exactly two people in Los Angeles."
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot - in this case, my brother Shaun - deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens. As if we didn't already know what happens when you mess with a zombie: The zombie turns around and bites you, and you become the thing you poked. This isn't a surprise."
ReplyDeleteFeed by Mira Grant.
It really isn't a surprise! Why do people think things will turn out differently for them? Especially with zombies??!! Funny about the name in the book; Shaun of the Dead remains one of my fave movies ever. I adore Simon Pegg.
DeleteMy first lines are from The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch:
ReplyDeleteSeaton Estate Berkshire, England January 4, 1813
“You’ll do as you’re told if you know what’s good for you. I won’t be humiliated again.”
Just finished this phenomenal book!
Thank you for sharing your line again this week, Paula. Happy Reading!
DeleteThis book sounds like one right up my alley!! Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI love city biographies, and I am about a quarter done with it. It's great so far!
Deletegreat cover
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
Right?? I am an unapologetic cover snob.
DeleteA ghost trail, a dark trail, a trail endlessly winding. Louis L'amour: Rivers West
ReplyDeleteHaunting.
DeleteHappy Friday! 🙂
ReplyDeleteOn my blog I'm sharing from Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette. I'm currently on chapter 20, so I'll share from there.
"My family and Hakim's family, along with Baz and his wife and daughters, were gathered around the long table in the courtyard, oil lamps flickering joyfully along its length."
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 😀❤📚
Thanks for stopping by Nicole, happy reading!
DeleteHappy Friday! I haven't heard of that one. Today, I'm sharing the first line from Secrets of the Pastor's Wife by Christina Ryan Claypool: "When Cassandra Martin first moved to Maple Grove, the silence in the middle of the night seemed eerie."
ReplyDeletehttps://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-line-fridays-secrets-of-pastors.html
I really love city memoirs/biographies and so far, so good on this one!
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from "More Than Friends" by Autumn Macarthur:
ReplyDelete"Catriona Maclean returned the phone to its niche, slumped onto the worn oak bench in the entrance hall of the manse, and groaned out loud. She needed a man."
Thanks for sharing your line, Happy Reading!
DeleteHappy Friday!!
ReplyDeleteMy first line is from Janalyn Voigt's DawnSinger- tales of Faeraven
"A crosswind caught Kai's wingabeast as lightning flared too near."
Have an awesome weekend!
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2020/05/first-line-friday-dawnsinger-tales-of.html
Happy Saturday! Thanks for sharing your line this week :)
DeleteMy first line comes from another book about a city, New York City, but it is urban fantasy:
ReplyDelete"I sing the city." The City We Became by N K Jemisin.
You had my hopes so high for a moment at the thought of another city book, and then you dropped that fiction bomb on me, lol!
DeleteWhat a brave character! I always thought it would be nice to reinvent myself but always stayed put.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes used to think it would be so thrilling to sell everything and live out of a backpack as I traipsed across Europe.
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