45 -- First Word In The Book Is "The"

[Kermina]

Wild is the Witch starts with “the”. Loved the book!

[Clara]

Mountain of the Dead by Keith McCloskey
I skipped foreword and prolog because chapter 1 starts "The events leading up to the night of 1.2.59 have been reconstructed as far as possible from what was found by te search parties and the last entry in the Dyatlov group's diary from 31.1.59 which was made by Igor Dyatlov."

[GailW]

I read The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. The first four pages start with the title of the book. The first chapter starts with "The Disappearance"

[Lesley]

“The Death of Mrs Westaway” by Ruth Ware. First line is “The magpies are back.”

[Chantal]

I read De porselein tafel

[Emma]

Where’d You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
“The first annoying thing is when I ask Dad what he thinks happened to Mom, he always says, ‘What’s most important is for you to understand it’s not your fault.’”

[Lori]

I was so excited about this one:

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
4 stars

“The Whistle Stop Cafe opened up last week, right next door to me at the post office, and owners Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison said business has been good ever since.”

[S]

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn. Light and fast reading, finish it in one day

[Linde]

The Hunt Begins - Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time #2; The Great Hunt #1)
"The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place, sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft gabble of geese."

[Anna]

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life starts with The.
"The alarm jangled."
This was a happy accident for me since I was reading it for me, not specifically for a prompt. 4 stars for me.

[Kim]

What if the title of the first chapter starts with "The?" Would that count?

[Lindsey]

Kim wrote: "What if the title of the first chapter starts with "The?" Would that count?"

It does if you want it to

[Natalya]

I recently finished Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

[Rebel]

I read Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

[Cathy]

The first word is "The" cute prompt. Darling Saves Christmas: The Continuing Adventures of Darling the Curly-Tailed Reindoe by Cheryl Campbell Enjoy

[Rosemarie]

Do epigraphs count?

[Clara]

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend 5 stars
"The alarm jangled."

[Beth]

My pick: You Can Go Your Own Way.

[Leonore]

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

[Lisa]

Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls starts like this: The fastest girl in the world.

[Shonna]

I read As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee, which starts "The stooping figure of my mother..."
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[Amy]

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

[Mel]

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Loved it so much. All the senses were represented and I didn't want to let anyone go.

[Clara]

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

[Karsauras]

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

[Erika]

The Chaos Machine

[Katrina]

[Kerri]

Murder Under Her Skin by Stephen Spotswood. Pentecost and Parker #2

[Guylou]

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
"The story on Alice's computer..."

[Michele]

Two Graves, #12 in the Pendergast series by Preston & Child, starts out "The woman with the violet eyes..."

[Leonore]

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

[Denise]

Just finished The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith. I had high hopes that it would satisfy prompt 51, no other category, but alas it has an inheritance, a secret, a sin...and the first word is "the":
"The description of the family of Wakefield...."

[Heather]

[Anna]

I read The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams. First sentance: "The first of the birds Caroline mistook for her own minds' work."

[Isabella]

"THE STAR WAS particularly bright when the nightmare painter started his rounds."

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

[Kai]

The Fine Print by Lauren Asher is on my list.

[Angela Y]

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith

[Kim]

I read The Runaway Jury by John Grisham.

[Aquaria]

Ellis Peters - The Confession of Brother Haluin. The entire series went on my definite reads list this year, so I squeezed all of them I could into this challenge.

[Traci]

Three Shots to the Wind by Sherry Harris 2/20/23

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[Amy]

A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J Maas. I wasn't even going to count this toward the challenge until I realized I needed this category, and it fit!

[Hilde]

The book I picked for this prompt is World Famous Murders by Colin Wilson. Both the title and the text of the first chapter starts with "the"

[Angele]

See her Die by Melinda Leigh

[Sandy]

The Costumes of Downton Abbey by Emma Marriott

[Kim]

Wildwood Imperium by Colin Meloy. This is the third book in the Wildwood trilogy and I loved all of them so much!

[roguereader]

The Jinn Daughter

[Leonore]

American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

[AngieA]

Leonore wrote: "American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee"I show prompt 45 for 2024 as "Chapter headings have dates." What list are you working from? Anyway, your challenge, your rules!