torpor
/ˈtôrpər/
noun
- a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy
Now I’m shaking off the torpor, powering through it, rising up and up — above the road, above the trees.
– Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows
Author: Lee
First Lines Fridays: March 1, 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:
Bev says when she’s onstage she feels the world holding its breath for her. She feels electric, louder than a thousand wailing sirens, more powerful than God.
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February 2019 Reading Wrap-Up
The Haunting by Shirley Jackson
Rating: ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review: No
Format: Print
Reading Dates: January 29 – February 2; February 10 – 14
Read Count: 2
Favorite Thing: Entrancing prose.
Least Favorite Thing: Why is everyone so bitchy to Eleanor?
I read this as part of a travelling book project with the Books & Tea discord server. Everyone trades books and annotates them. The annotating is why I read it twice. The first time through I didn’t make hardly any notes because I was just absorbed in reading, so I read through it a second time just to make my notes.
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
(Shatter Me, book 1)
Rating: ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review: No
Format: Audiobook
Reading Dates: January 4 – February 13
Read Count: 3
Favorite Thing: The little scratch-out sound effect when she writes something she doesn’t like. It was just a nice touch.
Least Favorite Thing: The love-sick monologues.
I read this along with a different book club discord server. I had read the book twice before so when it came time for us all to read Shatter Me together I figured I’d give the audiobook a try instead. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did reading the physical copies, but it was still good.
In Progress
Words from Books
propinquity
/prəˈpiNGkwədē/
noun
- the state of being close to someone or something; proximity
- [technical] close kinship
And, in spite of it all, Miss Browning and Miss Phoebe considered themselves as Mr Gibson’s most intimate friends, in right of their regard for his dead wife, and would fain have taken a quasi-motherly interest in his little girl, had she not been guarded by a watchful dragon in the shape of Betty, her nurse, who was jealous of any interference between her and her charge; and especially resentful and disagreeable towards all those ladies who, by suitable age, rank, or propinquity, she thought capable of ‘casting sheep’s eyes at master.’
First Lines Fridays: February 22, 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:
The Chinese have a curse, “May you live in interesting times.” As curses went, Cora felt that this was truly the best she’d ever heard. Not that she was particularly fond of curses, but in her opinion this one was eminently applicable, far superior to the generic “Go to hell” or the cheery “Break a leg” or even the medieval “A pox on your house.”
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Words from Books
lassitude
/ˈlasəˌt(y)o͞od/
noun
- a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy
During the days following Easter Sunday, he noticed a certain lassitude of spirit in himself.
– Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford
First Lines Fridays: February 15, 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:
“You don’t want to kill me,” I said.
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Completed: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (audiobook)
Words from Books
intransigence
/inˈtransəjəns/ or /inˈtranzəjəns/
noun
- refusal to change one’s views or to agree about something
The dream receded and left him there, in his bed, alone — stranded in the merciless intransigence of reality, and it was as bleak a truth to his soul as the nothingness of the Elmuthaleth.
– Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
First Lines Fridays: February 8, 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:
The door slid open, and Clarke knew it was time to die.
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