First Sentences

[Heather]

What's the first sentence of the book you're reading?




"My name is Gin, and I kill people."

[Heather]

I'm starting with Ch. 1 instead of the Prologue.



"Another fucking butterfly."

[Jasmine]

I also did mine from the first chapter instead of the Prologue. =]

"The clerk asks for my autograph."-



My sentence is nowhere near as interesting as yours, lol. I love both of yours! I wonder why the main character in the Ward book is so annoyed by butterflies, loll.

[Heather]

It's not the main character that starts it off. You'll see.

[Heather]

"Mmm."

[Jasmine]

I really enjoyed that book, Heather. : )

[Heather]

I've been trying to get to it for weeks now. I'm looking forward to it.

[Darcy]

Heather I think you will like the Sands books, they are fun and light like Kerrelyn Sparks and MaryJanice Davidson.

[Heather]

They are. They're a little cheesy, but oh so cute.

[Jasmine]

I'm re-reading :) The first sentence is-

"When the door to my cell clicked open, the first thought that flitted through my doped-up brain was that Liz had changed her mind and come back."

[Darcy]

I have been waiting to find a good one to add to this post and I finally did from a very silly time traveling romance series that is quickly becoming a guilty pleasure. This line is from Wet & Wild by Sandra Hill.

Ragnor Magnusson was in the midst of swiving the most beautiful woman in all the Norselands, and he was bored.

The second one is even better...

[Jasmine]

"Surely a girl as lovely as you, a girl who personifies loveliness itself, should not be hidden away on a night like this, on a night when everyone wants to see a fine figure and starry eyes, and where yours are the starriest of all."

- (from Chapter 1, not the Prologue.)

do tell what the second line is Darcy. :)

[Darcy]

Jasmine wrote: "do tell what the second line is Darcy. :) "

I was going to put it down, but thought better of it. But if you really want to know... lol

"In, out, in out, in, out, ho hum. He barely stifled a yawn."

I definitely started out laughing with this book. :)

[Jasmine]

LOL. Just for that line I have to see what that book is about!

[Darcy]

Jasmine wrote: "LOL. Just for that line I have to see what that book is about!"

It is book #4 in the series, but for some reason they crack me up. Typical romance but they are silly and you laugh as you read them.

[Jasmine]

They seem interesting. :) Do you have to know about viking history to get the humor in them? I don't really know that much about Vikings, but I might read these in the future.

[Darcy]

You don't have to know anything about Vikings, you just learn it like the people in the book. But what makes them fun and silly is in the guys not understanding modern day stuff. Like when they first meet a doctor and think they are a dock-whore. There are all sorts of goofy things like that.

[Heather]

Oh wow...Interesting start.

[Heather]

"Fear sucks"

[Darcy]

Heather wrote: "

"Fear sucks""

That is one of my favorite series.

[Angela]

"When I was little, the great mystery to me wasn't how babies were made, but why."

My Sister's Keeper
That's the most interesting one I've run across since this thread started

[Heather]

Prologue: "No matter how carefully I patted the chopped apples into place, the top crust of my apple pie always looked like I'd tried to bury a dismembered body under it."

[Heather]

"The package sat on the damp concrete of the Jakarta alley for almost thirty minutes before anyone inside the warung food stall mad an attempt to retrieve it."


This was about 1/2 way through and had me busting up so I'm including it:
" '...At the very least, it's getting fucking messy.'
'You just used a bad word in front of my mom,' Blue said.
'Tell me about it. I've had to be a monk in front of her. But I'm all done with that now. This is my office, and--Shit. I have to go. Your mother's staring at me. I think she's got powers. She looks at you funny and you can almost feel your balls ripping off.'" - 155

[Darcy]

I like the second one. I have tried this series and it just wasn't for me. Glad to see you are enjoying them.

[Heather]

It's weird. I think if I started with book 1 I wouldn't have liked it as much. I read book 4 first since it's teamed up with another book. It was interesting enough to keep me reading. I liked Hari, but I don't think there was enough in that first book to keep you reading.
I don't think they're GREAT, but they're at least a little different than everything else I've been reading and that's enough to keep me going. They're at least better then Katie MacAlister. However, I would like to finish them so I can finish Sands. These lack humor. They're in need of a joke every now and then.

[Heather]

"The man who was going to stand by and watch while Helen burned to death liked his coffee black."

[Jen]

I'm reading two books right now...



"He told them he loved them."

"Her parents were going to kill her for this."

[Lani]

"Not to brag or anything, but if you saw me from behind, you’d probably think I was perfect."

-it's kinda of boring, but the book, is really good so far.

[Heather]

Nice line.

[Jasmine]

"Our stepmommy dearest is about to buy herself a gigolo."

[Paula]

"Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are."

[Heather]

"It was supposed to be the happiest day of my life."

[Jen]

"'I feel bad that I'm leaving you like this,' Amelia said."

[Jasmine]

"I stiffened at the red and blue lights flashing behind me, because there was no way I could explain what was in the back of my truck."

[Lani]

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

by John Green and David Levithan.

[Heather]

"The monkeys began dying at dawn."

[Heather]

"Computers are the modern world's way of controlling witches."

[Lani]

Heather wrote: "

"The monkeys began dying at dawn.""

lol! That's a good one!

[Heather]

"Hannah Swensen awoke to a curious sensation."

[Heather]

"'This seventeen-year-old high school cheerleader stole one hundred sixty-five dollars and twenty-six cents from a Girl Scout?'"

[Sherri]

"I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work."

[Jen]

"There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever."

One For The Money by Janet Evanovich

[Heather]

"The humans allowed Karr to wake up, which was their first mistake."

[Heather]

Sherri wrote: "

"I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work.""



I found the best true blood shirt yesterday!:

***Spoiler***(Be at least a few chapters into Dead to the World - C. Harris before reading)


"Why aren't there any smoking hot, naked vampires with amnesia running down my street at night?"

[Sherri]

lol...awesome! Where did you find it?

[Heather]

zazzle.com It's 30 bucks through. I wish it were cheaper. I wouldn't wear it in public, but it'd be fun to wear around the house.

[Jasmine]

"What if I told you I had a fantasy?"

[Sherri]

"Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive -- that's what everyone said."

[Angela]

that book...so sad....bad book....ok good book but I cried a lot!

[Heather]

"Gunfire boomed in my ears, the sergeant crouched next to me yelling with triumph as his target fell."