The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Reading
First Lines Fridays: December 13, 2019
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
December 9, 2005, 12:55 p.m.
Janie Hannagan’s math book slips from her fingers. She grips the edge of the table in the school library. Everything goes black and silent.
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Mini-Review: The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale
★★★★☆ – really liked it
I really struggled with the first 8 or so chapters of this book because it was nothing but her internal freak-out about her husband cheating on her…
But once I got past that it was really good and I’m really glad I read it. It was moving and I loved the strong friendships it portrayed.
I definitely recommend it if you like women’s lit and don’t mind weeping for several chapters.
Completed: The Secret to Hummingbird Cake by Celeste Fletcher McHale
Mini-Review: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
The pacing of this book was weird. One minute it would be moving along at a good clip and then we’d have to stop and have a long internal monologue with Amy, making whatever action was going on just fall flat.
Other than that the story was good and the plot interesting. If you like retellings you will probably like this.
Completed: Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
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First Lines Fridays: December 6, 2019
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
This is the story my mother told me: She was traveling late in her pregnancy when she was overcome by labor pains.
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