Happy Friday!!!
Winter is beginning to fade around here. Although, I believe it will be quite a while before the snow is completely gone! However, I am not complaining. I have a whole list up of books lined up to read! I am super excited for the next few weeks! Coming up soon is a book that I have been looking forward to for quite a while.
"The wood-paneled walls of the boardroom were closing in."
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Beth Erin - Faithfully Bookish
Katie - Fiction Aficionado Kathleen Denly
Lauraine - Lauraine's Notes
Andi - Radiant Light
Carrie - Reading is my SuperPower
Robin - Robin's Nest
Sydney - Singing Librarian
Amanda - With a Joyful Noise
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I can't wait to read this one!
ReplyDeleteMy first lines this week come from The Message in a Bottle Romance Collection:
1170 AD, Ciar's Kingdom, Ireland
The skies were as unsettled as her own future.
1715, Argyllshire, Scotland
"Are ye ready, miss?"
Meg's stomach twisted at Mother Aila's question.
June 1798, New York City
Abigail Van de Klerk opened the door to the house she shared with her father on Pearl Street.
July 6, 1864, Roswell, Georgia
Water roared over the dam behind her, an echo of the blood rushing in her ears.
Late June 1890, Coronado Island, California
Cold water slid across his body, the dip and rise of the swell bringing challenge to his course.
I know! I am on pins and needles!
DeleteSounds really good! My first line is: "The cheerful yellow house didn't look all that imposing as Silas Jones stood in front of its fence for the fourth time that day."
ReplyDeleteFrom For the Sake of the Children by Danica Favorite
Ooooh!
DeleteNeat quote!
ReplyDeleteOn my blog I shared my first line from the favorite, Pride and Prejudice. ;)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
I LOVE THIS LINE! Welcome to our crazy team hehe!
DeleteOh now I am wondering, who the character is and why they feel that way! Great choice. Here is mine:
ReplyDelete“The world outside still clung to the previous night, the shadows not quite releasing their hold to the breaking light over the mountain ridge outside Aspen Hills, Colorado.”-Fatality by Firelight
A Cat Latimer Mystery, Book 2
by Lynn Cahoon
Right? I had to force myself to put it down and not keep reading!
DeleteI'm so excited to read Cathy's The Memory of You!
ReplyDeleteMy first line:
It was the second time in fifteen minutes that the power had gone out at the church, and it was noticeable darker this time. The Reason by William Sirls
Happy Friday and happy reading!
I liked his books!
DeleteOh goodness! I don't like the dark lol!
DeleteHappy Friday!
ReplyDeleteMy line is from "Women of the Twelfth Century" by Georges Duby. I cheated a little this week and included my first paragraph this time around.
"Beneath the dome of the church at Fontevraud - in the twelfth century, one of the largest and most prestigious abbeys for women in France - one sees today four recumbent statues, the remains of old funerary monuments, Three of them are carved from soft limestone: that of Henry Plantagenet, count of Anjou and Maine through his father, duke of Normandy and king of England through his mother; that of his son and successor, Richard Coeur de Lion; and that of Isabella of Angouleme, second wife of John Lackland, Richard's brother, who became king in his turn in 1199. The fourth effigy, of painted wood, represents Eleanor, heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine, wife of Henry and mother of Richard and John; she died at Fontevraud, where she had finally taken the veil, on 31 March 1204."
Ah! Now I want to keep reading!
DeleteOh, I would love to see snow! :)
ReplyDeleteAn Uncertain Choice
by Jody Hedlund
And the first line is...
Montfort Castle, Ashby
In the year of our Lord 1390
"My slippered feet slapped the dirt road, and my heart hammered aginst my chest like a battering ram."
Happy reading and Happy Friday!
I LOVE this series!!!
DeleteI found the box in the attic of an old farmhouse in Norway.
ReplyDelete~East by Edith Pattou
Ahhhh I NEED to know what was in the box!!!
Delete1297 BC
ReplyDeleteNaomi lifted the hem of her robe as her feet fairly flew down Bethlehem's streets toward the outskirts of town.
Redeeming Grace by Jill Eileen Smith
That is a wonderful story!
DeleteOooh sounds good!!!!
DeleteA high-pitched shriek echoed down the hall of the wedding chapel.
ReplyDeleteThe Vegas Proposal by Julie Jarnagin
Ahhhhhahahaha! That line...with that title....has me laughing!
Delete'And I sank down where I stood, and hid my face against the ground. I lay still a while; the night swept over the hill and over me and died moaning in the distance; the rain fell fast, wetting me afresh to the skin.'
ReplyDeleteFrom Murder on the Moor by Julianna Deering. The hero's wife is reading Jane Eyre to him as he lay on the sofa, his head in her lap!
Ahhhh! I have been wanting to read this one!
Delete"I refuse to attend another wedding, I'm through. " Ruby King Marshall juggled two glasses of punching her gloved hand as she shepherded her blind cousin through the overcrowded ballroom. FromBeyond the ashes by Karen Barnett.
ReplyDeleteOh this is an interesting beginning!
Delete"Was this the night she would actually die of tedium, triviality, and hypocrisy" A Viscount's Proposal by Melanie Dickerson
ReplyDeleteOoooh this in on my TBR!!!
DeleteSounds like someone is having a bad day at work. Here's mine:
ReplyDeleteWalking down the main street in Deadwood is like stepping onto hell's front porch.
~A Claim of Her Own by Stephanie Grace Whitson.
That's what I am thinking lol! Ahhh Deadwood! I have been there! **scurries off to check this book out**
DeleteI can't wait to read this one!! It's calling to me from my TBR stack but it has to wait its turn lol
ReplyDeleteOh TBR....it never grows smaller does it?
DeleteNo, you read one book and five more pop in its place! LOL
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