Currently Reading First Lines

[Lisa]

I'm currently read The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley
"Although I hadn't been shot at for years, it took me a long time to understand that the bang wasn't artillery."

[Janice, Moderator]

It sounds interesting, Lisa. The book blurb says "witty". You'll have to let me know if it is. I need something with a chuckle or two.

[Lisa]

I'm starting The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
"When the streets are at their darkest and quietest, a girl settles at a small desk in the cellar of a dollmaker's shop. A bald china head sits in front of her and watches her with a vacant stare. She squeezes red and white watercolours onto an oyster shell, sucks the end of her brush, and adjusts the looking glass before her. The candle hisses. The girl narrows her eyes at the blank paper."

[Cherie]

Ohh, creepy, Lisa!

[Lisa]

Cherie wrote: "Ohh, creepy, Lisa!"

Very! 😬

[Janice, Moderator]

Added! :)

[Lisa]

Janice wrote: "Added! :)"

👍😁

[Margo]

it's on my wishlist already Lisa. Sounds interesting!

[Lisa]

Margo wrote: "it's on my wishlist already Lisa. Sounds interesting!"

It's a goodie, Margo.

[Lisa]

I'm currently reading The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
"I never would have done what they say I've done, to Madame, because I loved her. Yet they say I must be put to death for it, and they want me to confess. But how can I confess what I don't believe I've done?"

[Janice, Moderator]

Lisa wrote: "I'm currently reading The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
"I never would have done what they..."

I'm intrigued! You find some great first sentences in your books, Lisa.

[Margo]

Ah Lisa, you are putting a huge strain on my wishlist this morning!

[Sandra, Moderator]

It is true, Lisa. You have an eye for beautiful covers and atmospheric first lines. :)

[Lisa]

Margo wrote: "Ah Lisa, you are putting a huge strain on my wishlist this morning!"

Lol! Sorry, Margo! 😁

[Lisa]

Sandra wrote: "It is true, Lisa. You have an eye for beautiful covers and atmospheric first lines. :)"

Thanks, Sandra.

[Margo]

"The first think you find out when your dog learns to talk, is that dogs don't got nothing much to say, about anything. "

The Knife of Never Letting Go

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: ""The first think you find out when your dog learns to talk, is that dogs don't got nothing much to say, about anything. "

The Knife of Never Letting Go"

I have this book and I'll get to it someday. I hope.

[Margo]

The start is promising anyway.

[Lisa]

I have started The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
"The woman stands alone beneath a sharp blue sky. Evergreen cypress and rough grass bound the graveyard. The grey headstones are bleached the colour of bone by the fierce Cape sun."

[Margo]

I read that one Lisa. It's a good opening.

[Janice, Moderator]

Lisa wrote: "I have started The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
"The woman stands alone beneath a sharp blue sky. Evergreen cypress and rou..."

It's on my wishlist. I'll be interested in your reaction to the book.

[Janice, Moderator]

I started Deerskin yesterday:

"Many years later she remembered how her parents had looked to her when she was a small child: her father as tall as a tree, and merry and bright and golden, with her beautiful black-haired mother at his side."

[Gavin]

The Canterbury Tales:
"When in April the sweet showers fall
And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all
The veins are bathed in liquor of such power
As brings about the engendering of the flower"

[Margo]

Janice, your book went straight onto my wishlist, i love fairy tales.

Gavin, that is a beautiful start. Good luck with that! I bought Knight's Tale once on audio but when I started listening it was in middle English which made it authentic but very hard to understand!

[Renee]

This thread is making me crazy. I think good reads has a bug. No matter t I do it will not be marked as read This post is my attempt to see if a new post will help clear it.

[Lisa]

I am reading Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
"The Mystery of Edmund Stearne
by Patrick Rippon
Only in The Sunday Explorer Magazine

Like a witch's lair in a fairytale the ancient manor house crouches in its tangled garden. I can't take my eyes off the ivy-choked window above the front door. It was from that window in 1913 that 16-year old Maud Stearne watched her father set off down the steps with an ice-pick, a geological hammer - and murder in his heart."

[Margo]

Ooo - you had me at the first sentences Lisa 😊

[Janice, Moderator]

Renee wrote: "This thread is making me crazy. I think good reads has a bug. No matter t I do it will not be marked as read This post is my attempt to see if a new post will help clear it."

That's happening to me as well, Renee. I may close the thread and start a new one when I have a bit of time.

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "Janice, your book went straight onto my wishlist, i love fairy tales."

I'm almost finished and am enjoying it.