First Lines Fridays: March 10, 2017

Lee — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:00:24 +0000

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 Line:

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.

Interested? Scroll down for the cover and summary!

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it’s the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

Have you read If I Stay? What did you think?

Top Ten Tuesday: November 17, 2015

Lee — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:57:43 +0000

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list. Everyone is welcome to join. All that’s asked is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Don’t worry if you can’t come up with ten every time…just post what you can!

This week’s topic is: Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So!

(I know I’m posting this a bit late, try to forgive me, I’m ill yet again…)

Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.
– Queen of Shadows, Sarah J. Maas
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
– The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Chubs said, “apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”
– Never Fade, Alexandra Bracken
(Let’s face it y’all, I can’t wait to use this line on somebody!)
Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don’t want to waste it being afraid.
– Such A Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess
No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.
– Snow Like Ashes, Sara Raasch
I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.
– If I Stay, Gayle Forman
He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life.
But me, I contemplated shooting everyone.
– Reboot, Amy Tintera
Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
– Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas
The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.
– Cracked Up to Be, Courtney Summers
Once you read something, you can’t erase it from your brain.
– Wake, Lisa McMann

If I Stay – Darkestwings Reads

First Lines Fridays: March 10, 2017

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that’s true.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Top Ten Tuesday: November 17, 2015