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message 1: by Rachel , The Attentive One (new)

Rachel  (APCB Reviews) (gr8rach) | 8842 comments Mod
Post the first line of the book you're reading or have just started and don't forget to list the book!

Ex.

"The bank was a decrepit stone building at the tail end of Houston Street, on the last divide between the gritty East Village and the wilds of the Lower East Side."
~ Blue Bloods


message 2: by Naura (new)

Naura | 152 comments "I WAKE WITH his name in my mouth.
Will."
-Insurgent


message 3: by Sarah (new)

Sarah (sarahlittlecornerforbooks) There was a boy in her room
fangirl


message 4: by Rachel, The Overseer (new)

Rachel (starjoy899) | 842 comments Mod
"Sundari Rakkhasa took her first life at age fourteen, but that was what she was trained for."

Duality

P.S. Great thread idea! :)


message 5: by Riya (new)

Riya "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

~The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


message 6: by Rachel, The Overseer (new)

Rachel (starjoy899) | 842 comments Mod
One morning during the spring of 2002, when I was writing this book, I did the following things in my study at home:

~Practice and Promise of a New Medium: Web Journalism


message 7: by Zainab (new)

Zainab Aslam (thehiddenassassin) | 685 comments "Picture some thing calming, the beach in Los Angeles-- white sand, crashing blue water, your strolling along the tide line..."
City of Heavenly fire by Cassandra Clare


message 8: by Megan (new)

Megan (booksforthebetter) | 3 comments "Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything."
The Mark Of Athena, The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan.


message 9: by Toni (new)

Toni (thewordshaker) The cold snap of the previous week was over;the sun was shining brightly as Clary hurried across Luke's dusty front yar,the hood of her jacket up to keep her hair from blowing across her face.
-City Of Glass by Cassandra Clare


message 10: by CourtLovesBooks (new)

CourtLovesBooks I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.
-Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater


message 11: by Bryony (new)

Bryony (bookslife17) 'They have all been asking for you,' Louisa Holland told Elizabeth, quietly but firmly.-First line of first chapter after the prologue of The Luxe by Anna Godbersen


message 12: by Erin (new)

Erin Vastag "My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention."
-This star won't go out


message 13: by Sarah (new)

Sarah (sarahlittlecornerforbooks) "My nightmare started like this"
~
Sea of Monsters


message 14: by Jordyn (new)

Jordyn | 216 comments "There are only two kinda of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatling, South Carolina- the stupid and the stuck"

Dangerous Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl


message 15: by btwthesepages (new)

btwthesepages | 121 comments "There are so many ways it could have all turned out differently."

- The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight


message 16: by Naban (new)

Naban (snoupysoup) "I was raised to marry a monster."

-Cruel Beauty


†Reviews of a FearStreetZombie† (fearstreetzombie) "Aria didn't have to look up to know Max had arrived"

-Renegade by Erica Stevens


message 18: by Sophia (new)

Sophia (-soniania) | 10 comments "A knock makes me jump." ~Graduation Day


†Reviews of a FearStreetZombie† (fearstreetzombie) "The Iron King stood before me, magnificent in his beauty, silver hair whipping about like an unruly waterfall."

The Iron Daughter


message 20: by Sunny (new)

Sunny | 43 comments "I felt her fear before I heard her screams." - Vampire Academy


message 21: by Holly (new)

Holly Dae (hollydae) | 7 comments "Though not, in hindsight, so startling as the misdeeds she would perpetrate when she returned to boarding school as a sophomore, what happened to Frankie Landau-Banks the summer after her freshman year was a shock."
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks


†Reviews of a FearStreetZombie† (fearstreetzombie) "This was it: Dusky amber sunset."
Teardrop


message 23: by Andrea (new)

Andrea (alexandra14) | 550 comments "Even over the sea, Thea could smell the blood on her."

Wake by Amanda Hocking


message 24: by Alma (Diary of a Booklover) (last edited Nov 08, 2014 06:53PM) (new)

Alma (Diary of a Booklover) (diaryofabooklover) | 15 comments "Gods, it was boiling in this useless excuse for a kingdom."
-Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

P. S. Can I use this idea for my group?


message 25: by Andrea (new)

Andrea (alexandra14) | 550 comments "A secret is a strange thing." - The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater by Maggie Stiefvater


message 26: by Claire (new)

Claire (ccovertocover) "I have some really bad secrets to share with someone, and it might as well be you- a stranger, a reader of books, but most of all, a person who can't hurt me."
- Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson


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