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.
"The scientist had forgotten all about the radium."
I was super excited to find this on Kindle Unlimited last week, I have been wanting to read it forever.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think, 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 what you think, and leave a link to your FLF so I can stop by to see what you've posted this week.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
The city was beginning to look deserted. Howard Engel's "The Ransom Game"
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your line!
DeleteThat's certainly an intriguing first line!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great read - kind of hard to keep track of everyone, because SO MANY young women were impacted, but definitely a worthy read.
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from “Murder in the Family” by Ramona Richards:
ReplyDelete” ‘Aunt Liz, you can’t keep doing this. It’s going to get you killed.’ And it had.”
Thanks for sharing your line!
Delete"In November 1916, Arno Dosch-Fleurot, a seasoned journalist working for the popular US daily - the New York World - had arrived in Petrograd fresh from a gruelling stint covering the Battle of Verdun. A Harvard-trained lawyer, from a prestigious Portland family, he had turned to journalism and had been covering the war since August 1914, when his editor in New York offered what seemed to him the dream ticket: "Suggest you might like to go to Russia."
ReplyDeleteCaught in the Revolution - Petrograd 1917 by Helen Rappaport
I've read her other books on that year and the Romanovs, but not this one. yet.
DeleteJust finished it yesterday. It's the 1917 Revolution but from the PoV of the foreigners who either stayed because they had to/wanted to or those trapped in Petrograd whilst it happened around them. LOTS of interesting stories there!
DeleteI will have to keep it on my radar. What a terrifying time to be stuck and unable to get out. ESPECIALY in Russia.
DeleteI'm intrigued. Going to look this one up.
ReplyDeleteHere's my First Line Friday post: https://mamaneedsabook.blogspot.com/2020/06/first-line-friday-half-sister-by-sandie.html
It was a really great read, I hope you like it!
DeleteHappy Friday! My first line is from At Love's Command by Karen Witemeyer:
ReplyDelete"According to the Good Book, there was a time for war and a time for peace."
Have a great weekend! 😃❤📚
Thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteMy first line is from IF I WERE YOU. By Lynn Austin:
ReplyDeletePrologue. London, November, 1945
Eve Dawson bolted upright in bed.
Thanks for sharing your line!
DeleteI want to read The Radium Girls too!
ReplyDeleteFrom the book I finished last night: Hotel, a 1965 bestseller by Arthur Hailey.
"If he had had his way, Peter McDermott thought, he would have fired the chief house detective long ago."
It's really good, and free on Kindle Unlimited. I had a hard time keeping track of all the young women because there were so many, and in multiple locations, but it was still a really good read.
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