Author: Lee

First Lines Fridays: April 5, 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:

Even with all of the star treatment accorded her over the years, the truth is undeniable:  It has never been easy being Elizabeth Taylor.

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March 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Rating:  ★★★☆☆ – liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  January 4 – March 6
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  Witty-funny.
Least Favorite Thing:  Just dragged a little bit.

This book was strange for me. I would go from loving it and completely engrossed to bored out of my mind and back again. I can’t quite put my finger on the issue I had, but there definitely was one. I was supposed to read it along with the discord server Books & Tea in the month of January, but it wound up taking me until March to get through it!

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Girl, Stolen by April Henry
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  March 8 – 13
Read Count:  1
Favorite Thing:  I found the depiction of her blindness and the way she did things despite it to be fascinating.
Least Favorite Thing:  I can’t actually think of something I didn’t like…

I loved the way this book wrapped up. There was just enough closure and just enough left to wonder about.

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It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It by Robert Fulghum
Rating:  ★★★★☆ – really liked it
Review:  No
Format:  Print
Reading Dates:  March 24 – 28
Read Count:  3
Favorite Thing:  He’s so weird and introspective.
Least Favorite Thing:  There were a few things that didn’t age super well…

I first read Fulghum’s books back in middle school and I figured it was high time I reread them, so I’ve been working my way through a little at a time.

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First Lines Fridays: March 29, 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:

Nanna and Poppy live in a big house in the middle of town. There’s a brick path that goes to the back porch, but before you get there you pass right by the kitchen window. That’s the Hello, Goodbye Window.

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Words from Books

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ebullient

/iˈbo͝olyənt/ or /iˈbəlyənt/
adjective

  1. cheerful and full of energy
Bad:  Twice Ronan got a phone call from his Ganseyfriend and both times he did not say anything to the phone, just listened to the ebullient patter on the other end and made grunting sounds in response.

– Maggie Stiefvater, Opal

 

First Lines Fridays: March 22, 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:

The day we threw Aunt Helen’s ashes into the Atlantic Ocean was very windy. I’m assuming you’ve never seen someone get a mouthful of their dead sister’s ashes, but that is exactly what happened to my dad, in slow motion, his mouth opening into an O as he lifted the top off the urn and thrust it forward. We all watched the ashes fly in a perfect arc out of the urn, and then we all watched them change direction in midair as a sudden gust of wind sent them back, back, directly into my father’s waiting horrified mouth.

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First Lines Fridays: March 15, 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:

There are long stretches where I don’t remember anything.

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First Lines Fridays: March 8, 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:

This time there would be no witnesses.

This time there was just the dead earth, a rumble of thunder, and the onset of that interminable light drizzle from the northeast by which so many of the world’s most momentous events seem to be accompanied.

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