First Line of February

[Michelle (MichelleBookAddict)]

For the book(s) you are reading now, tell us the first lines of the book.

Or a line(s) that you liked or not.

Let's hear it to judge if we might like the book

[Juanita]

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
"Hey bitches! Ah, the beginning of another school year."

Calico Joe by John Grisham
"The tumor in my father's pancreas was removed last week in an operation that lasted five hours and was more difficult than his surgeons had expected."

Rod / The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
"Obviously I was a mistake. Definitely some kind of oversight in the family-planning department."

The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
"Marx has completely changed the way I view the world," declared the Pallieres boy this morning, although ordinarily he says nary a word to me."

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
"The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up."

OOPS! I'm The Paparazzi by De-Ann Black
"I'd rather run off and join the circus than take a cheap handout of money from you."

Impossible Odds by Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm with Anthony Flacco
"Erik tells me for the umpteenth time, "I just don't like it, Jess."

Island Of The Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
"I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island."

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
"I was jolted awake by the sound of gunfire in one of the neighboring stacks."

[Book Concierge]

"When I walk into a bookstore, any bookstore, first thing in the morning, I'm flooded with a sense of hushed excitement."

[Connie]

Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

"It was dark where she was crouched but the little girl did as she'd been told."



The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley

"Your mother has been found."



Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

"Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest."

[John]

A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

"He walked as far as the hedge that signalled the end of the airfield."

1984 by George Orwell

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore

"The City of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge, shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public."

[Book Concierge]

"I stopped short at the doorway to the White House solarium"


"She's buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn."

[Connie]

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

"In seventh grade, I started at a new school. On the first day, I was so anxious to make friends, I brought a family-size bag of Skittles to homeroom so I could pass them out and entice my new classmates to talk to me."

[Kristel]

Quartet in Autumn
"That day the four of them went to the library, though at different times."

[Book Concierge]

At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses.

[Beverly]

The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society:
Over the top of her reading glasses, Eugenie Pierce eyed the teenage girl sprawled across two chairs at the long table in the Sweetgum Public Library's reading area.


Saturday:
Some hours before dawn Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon, wakes to find himself already in motion, pushing back the covers from a sitting position, and then rising to his feet.


The Mysterious Howling:
It was not Miss Penelope Lumley's first journey on a train, but it was the first one she had taken alone.


A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens:
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that.

[Beverly]

Started
The Dark Child by Camara Laye:
I was a little boy playing around my father's hut.

[Book Concierge]

"I have often recalled the morning when the first of the anonymous letters came."

[Paige]

Youby Caroline Kepnes
You walk into the bookstore and you keep your hand on the door to make sure it doesn't slam.

[Beverly]

Started
The Cross-Country Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
Julia loathed retirement parties.

[Connie]

A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava.

"Bless me Father, for I have sinned."

[Karin]

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

"I have no idea how to write this stupid book."

[Beverly]

Started Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol for a F2F book group at my library

Through the gates of the inn in the provincial town of N. drove a rather handsome, smallish spring britzka, of the sort driven around in by bachelors: retired lieutenant colonels, staff captains, landowners possessed of some hundred peasant souls--in short, all those known as gentlemen of the middling sort.

[Beverly]

Started Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood

It was the summer Rosemary Bliss turned ten that she saw her mother fold a lightning bolt into a bowl of batter and learned--beyond the shadow of a doubt--that her parents made magic in the Bliss bakery.

[Jen]

"There's a blanket, but from the aroma that rises from its folds, she guesses it's never been washed."



"That doesn't sound like a school trivia night," said, Mrs, Patty Ponder to Marie Antoinette. "That sounds like a riot."

[Book Concierge]

"23 Oct 1936
Dear Sophie,
Happy birthday to my favorite little sister!"

[Connie]

The Passion

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock."

[Paige]

Connie wrote: "The Passion

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock."
"

This first sentence really sparks my curiosity!

[Book Concierge]

The funeral is well attended, the New Heidelburg Lutheran Church packed to capacity with farmers and their families who have come to bid farewell to one of their own.

[Connie]

Paige wrote: "Connie wrote: "The Passion

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock."
"

This first sentence ..."
Here's another good one, used a few times in The Passion :

" I'm telling you stories. Trust me."

[Paige]

Connie wrote: "Paige wrote: "Connie wrote: "The Passion

"It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock."
"

This f..."

Hahaha! That is a good one.

[Beverly]

He snatched me a block away from my apartment.

[Connie]

Beverly wrote: "

He snatched me a block away from my apartment."

Yikes.

[Beverly]

Connie wrote: "Beverly wrote: "

He snatched me a block away from my apartment."

Yikes."

IKR?

[Paige]

Beverly wrote: "Connie wrote: "Beverly wrote: "

He snatched me a block away from my apartment."

Yikes."

IKR?"
Yes, that line would suck me right in.

[Beverly]

The old woman peered past the red geraniums in her deep front window at the figure lingering in the moon white snow at the gate.



The freezing rain sifts down, handfuls of shining rice thrown by some unseen celebrant.

[Connie]

Beverly wrote: "

The old woman peered past the red geraniums in her deep front window at the figure lingering in the moon white snow at the gate.

[bookcover:Stone Mattress: Ni..."

I remember I enjoyed Prayers for Sale. The Stone Mattress line definitely sounds poetic.

[Beverly]

Connie wrote: "Beverly wrote: "

The old woman peered past the red geraniums in her deep front window at the figure lingering in the moon white snow at the gate.

[bookcover:St..."

I've read several books by Sandra Dallas and really enjoyed them so hoping for a similar outcome. And I'm always intrigued by Margaret Atwood--hope this is a winner! :)

[Beverly]

From an upstairs window peered three pairs of eyes.



I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a Dumpster.

[Paige]

Beverly wrote: "

From an upstairs window peered three pairs of eyes.



I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evenin..."

I knew what book this was, just by the first line.

[Beverly]

Paige wrote: "Beverly wrote: "

From an upstairs window peered three pairs of eyes.



I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdresse..."

I think that's great...kind of like knowing what song is playing when you hear just a few first notes! :)

[Beverly]

Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians.

[Book Concierge]

Sam Gardner sat on the porch the Monday after Easter.