Reading

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“We each pace against the bars that cage us.”
“Your cage is the world,” I said in frustration, though I did not mean to strike for his heart.
“Everyone’s cage is the world. Some worlds are smaller than others.”

– Jay Lake, Green, page 85

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Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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“Is it a manly game,” he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.

– Jay Lake, Green, page 69

Version:
Paperback, 368 pages
Published February 15th 2011 by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Words from Books

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palimpsest

/ˈpaləm(p)ˌsest/
noun

  1. a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
  2. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form
They swept through me until I forgot to fight, forgot that I had ever been anything but a palimpsest of memories overwritten by visions.

– Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

First Lines Fridays: September 13, 2019

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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:

When Gregor opened his eyes he had the distinct impression that someone was watching him.

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