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.
"It was freezing cold on Launch Pad."
If you were alive at the time, do you remember what you were doing or how you found out that the Challenger had exploded?
Leave a comment and let me know, and leave a link to your FLF so I can stop by to see what you've posted this week.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Leave a comment and let me know, and leave a link to your FLF so I can stop by to see what you've posted this week.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"Growing income and wealth inequality is recognised as the greatest social threat of our times. Robert Shiller suggests that the renewed greed of the top 1 per cent has had worse effects than even the financial crash of 2008. The top 1 per cent contribute to rising inequality, not just by taking more and more, but by suggesting that such greed is justifiable and using their enormous wealth to promote that concept."
ReplyDeleteInequality and the 1% by Danny Dorling
I would definitely agree with this statement!
DeleteFrom The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlo Ruiz Zafon: "That night I dreamed that I was going back to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books."
ReplyDeleteI'd be hooked right away!
DeleteI was 4 when the explosion happened. I don't remember much except that we taped it. We were gone all day and were going to watch our tapes version when we got home. I don't remember anything from my parents watching the tape. I just know I wasn't allowed to see it.
ReplyDeleteToday on my blog I'm sharing the first line from If I Were You by Lynn Austin. I'm currently on chapter 11, so I'll share from there.
"USA 1950
Eve barely slept."
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 🙂❤📚
I was three and a half and have no memory of it. I don't even remember this being talked about in school when I was older. It was not until I became really interested in space (Thanks Apollo 13 and Tom Hanks) that I knew details of it, and even longer until I saw footage. I watched CNN's old coverage of it as I was typing up this post, and other related videos. In one I discovered that the crew was most likely still alive when the cabin was ripped away. One of the astronauts interviewed said he is absolutely sure they were alive based on where the explosion occurred, and that Captain Smith was piloting the shuttle to the best of his ability the whole way down. That made me sob.
DeleteThis book looks so interesting! Have a good weekend!!
ReplyDeleteIt was very good. Sad, but well worth reading.
Deletewhat's an flf? i don't recall the date so i don't know...?
ReplyDeleteFLF is for First Line Friday :)
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from "Doesn't She Look Natural?" by Angela Hunt:
ReplyDelete"A grieving woman, I've decided, is like a creme brulee: she begins in a liquid state, endures a period of searing heat, and eventually develops a scablike crust."
Happy Saturday, thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteMy first line is from The White Rose Resists by Amanda Barratt:
ReplyDeleteSophie May 1,1942 Munich, Germany
My future is waiting, a spark in the distance burning steadily brighter as the train approaches the city.
Hi Paula, thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteHappy Friday!!
ReplyDeleteOh wow that books looks amazing!
On my blog I shared the first line from Forever Home by Amy Grochowski
"A sensible Amish woman aspired to marry, as Lydia Miller was reminded daily."
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2020/05/first-line-fridays-forever-home.html
Have a lovely weekend!
It was really good, though incredibly sad as well. It was interesting to learn the process of how McAuliffe was finally chosen. I definitely recommend this one!
DeleteHappy Friday! I'm looking forward to reading this one! Today, I'm sharing the first line from Stay With Me by Becky Wade: "The hallway floor jolts downward beneath my feet, throwing me off balance." Have a great weekend!
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Happy Saturday! It was a great read. albeit sad. Definitely recommended!
DeleteWell, my first line (tho this is Saturday) is from A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson:
ReplyDelete"Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town." Which is how so many adventures start.
Re: Challenger. I was working for AT&T in Boston, when all of a sudden our phones went haywire. No one could call out, crazy messages, fast busies, trouble reports coming in all over the place about the system being jammed, etc. We had no idea what was going on, just that something really bad had happened (very scary). Someone finally learned about Challenger, and remembered that McAuliffe was from the Boston area. People had brought the system down trying to call her family. It was a pretty strange experience.
Wow, that is so crazy. And especially not knowing what was causing it at first, I can't imagine. I know we sometimes lament now how immediate news often is, but in cases like that it is extremely helpful.
DeleteI guess that there are a lot of bloggers too young to remember the Challenger exploding. I remember that I was at lunch at my middle school (7th grade, I believe) when the principle made the announcement over the loudspeaker. I bet that this would be a powerful read.
ReplyDeleteIt really was, and would probably be even more so for someone who remembers the event. I connected to it because I love learning about space travel, but no where near on the level I do about books on Waco, or Oklahoma City, Columbine, or 9/11. Those are what are most seared into my memory. I was ten when Waco happened, and remembered watching the live coverage every day after school.
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