First Line of Your Book

[Jojobean, Bookworm Challenger]

Post the first line of the book you are currently reading along with the link to the book.

Idea for this thread comes from Gisbelle from the Crazy for Young Adult Books Group

[Jojobean, Bookworm Challenger]

"Damn"~

[jingles]

"It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances - at least at first glance."



Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

[Marylynn]

The walls of the house absorbed the woman's screams, until they felt to her as muffled and pointless as yelling underwater.

[Brooke]

"I was digging in the garden when I heard it: a strange, wild singing on the wind.

[Veronica]

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." The Great Gatsby

[NayNay]

When he got out of bed that late-February morning, Ethan Jones had no idea his life was about to end.

Cut and Run by Lara Adrian

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"On one otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American dream"

(In the next sentence we learn that he was able to threw his boss out through a window)

Monster Hunter International

[Bev]

"Until the early nineteenth century few tools existed to detect a toxic substance in a corpse."

The Poisoner's Handbook

[NayNay]

I was a student at St. Thomas’s Hospital and the Easter vacation gave me six weeks to myself.

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham

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'Take all this business about Kenya,' said Major Palgrave.

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

[Nevaeh]

The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going away party.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

[jingles]

"Be my boyfriend for one hour".

No Breaking My Heart | Kate Angell

[jingles]

"Linnet Ridgeway!"

From:

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

[jingles]

Cotton Malone dove to the floor as bullets peppered the glass wall.

From:

The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry

[jingles]

Standing atop a lonely hill, Vivian gazed out upon the turbulent sea.

From:

Screwdrivered by Alice Clayton