I think a monogram says to people, “Hello, there. I’m Southern.” Or maybe it says, “Don’t steal my stuff.”
– Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup
Quotes
First Lines Fridays: May 1, 2020
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:
My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.
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First Lines Fridays: April 24, 2020
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 fairy tale begins in 1968 during a garbage strike.
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When he was a kid playing with the neighbors he learned what the word “fat” meant. It wasn’t the number on the scale, the one on a measuring tape, or the one that dictated his clothing size. “Fat” meant ugly. Disgusting. Gross. Abnormal.
– Revan Badingham III, To the Boys Who Wear Pink
There were multiple reasons why Eyes wasn’t at the party. He didn’t have clothes Percy would approve of. As a writer, events with more than ten people caused him to grow unpleasant. And, yes, he was dead.
– Revan Badingham III, To the Boys Who Wear Pink
First Lines Fridays: April 17, 2020
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:
The second time I saw my dead aunt Rosaria, she was dancing.
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First Lines Fridays: April 10, 2020
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:
Fame was bequeathed to me by the lips of an angel.
After all my years of rancid endeavour, I was granted fame by Kate Moss’s kiss.
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First Lines Fridays: April 3, 2020
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:
On the morning of April Fools’ Day, 2005, I woke up in a sexual addiction treatment center in a suburb of Philadelphia.
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First Lines Fridays: March 27, 2020
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:
I placed my thumb and forefinger on the icy flesh, spreading it taut above the breastbone as Uncle had showed me.
Getting the preliminary incision correct was imperative.
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First Lines Fridays: March 20, 2020
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:
Even when there are no prisoners, I can still hear the screams. They live in the walls like ghosts and echo between footsteps.
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