First Line Friday #12

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

Lupe's Read

A crowd of thousands shifted nervously on the great lawn in front of Wentworth House, waiting for the coffin to be brought out. It was the winter of 1902.

Charlene's Read

"No picture. No name. No background," he whispered to himself as he realized none of this missing information mattered.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #11

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

Lupe's Read

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Charlene's Read

The woman crossed to the window and moved the blind aside to peer apprehensively outside.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #10

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Mandy's Read

Jess Thomas and Nathalie Benson slumped in the seats of their van, which was parked far enough away from Nathalie's house that they couldn't be seen from inside.

Lupe's Read

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Charlene's Read

The young woman trolls streets littered with trash and seedy people, scanning for a buyer.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #9

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Charlene's Read

The greasy ponytail may have hidden the hole in the back of his head, but the gushing sound of blood gave it away.

Lupe's Read

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #8

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Lupe's Read

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Mandy's Read

Miss Pettigrew pushed open the door of the employment agency and went in as the clock struck a quarter past nine.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #7

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Mandy's Read

Millie's dog, Rambo, was her Very First Dead Thing.

Lupe's Read

Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #6

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Lupe's Read

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.

Charlene's Read

My brother was the one constant in my life until John du Pont murdered him.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #5

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Charlene's Read

He knows who I am.

Mandy's Read

There is a pair of linked questions at the heart of this book: Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter?

Lupe's Read

In the second millennium B.C., while the Elam nation was developing a civilization alongside Babylon, Indo-European invaders gave their name to the immense Iranian plateau where they settled.

{Blog Hop} First Line Friday #4

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Lupe's Read

For a man whose adult life would come to be marked by so many strange and miraculous events, Montaro Caine had a comparatively unremarkable childhood.

Mandy's Read

My name is Kathleen Whittier Mostyn, and when I was seventeen I became famous for catching the biggest shark New South Wales had ever seen: a gray nurse with an eye so mean it still looked like it wanted to rip me in two several days after we'd laid it out.

{Meme/Blog Hop} First Line Friday #3

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

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Lupe's Read

The river was insane.

Mandy's Read

Riding, riding, he had been riding when the dragon appeared overhead and came slowly, inevitably, down.

{Meme} First Line Friday

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to welcome you to First Line Friday.

When sharing the first line of the novel you're currently reading, please be sure to let us know the title and author. If you want to notate your thoughts and/or questions about the first line of your novel, please do!

As a side note: This used to be a regular meme on Rampant Reads last year. The blog could not be found online by Literary R&R. If this meme is already active via another blog, please let us know. We don't want to step on anyone's toes. Thanks all!

Here are our first lines for this week:

In one way, at least, our lives really are like movies.

I really hate to post just the first sentence this time around because it's the first two paragraphs that are really fundamental to setting up this novel. So much so that I'll likely be putting them in my review next week. - Mandy

Lupe's book this week

Haden's syndrome is the name given to a set of continuing physical and mental conditions and disabilities initially brought on by "the Great Flu", the influenza-like global pandemic that resulted in the deaths of more than 400 million people worldwide, either through the initial flu-like symptoms, the secondary stage of meningitis-like cerebral and spinal inflammation, or through complications arising due to the third stage of the disease, which typically cause complete paralysis of the voluntary nervous system, resulting in "lock in" for its victims.

Charlene's book this week

Though several residents of the Ang Mo Kio Housing Development Board block of flats heard a loud crash sometime after midnight early Friday morning, none of them made their way downstairs to investigate.

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{Meme} First Line Friday

First lines of novels can capture your attention, give you a clue to the character's past or present, set the stage for the entire novel, or more. First lines are extremely important and have a great responsibility. With that in mind, we'd like to introduce a new meme: First Line Friday.

When sharing the first line of the novel you're currently reading, please be sure to let us know the title and author. If you want to notate your thoughts and/or questions about the first line of your novel, please do!

As a side note: This used to be a regular meme on Rampant Reads last year. The blog could not be found online by Literary R&R. If this meme is already active via another blog, please let us know. We don't want to step on anyone's toes. Thanks all!

Here are our first lines for this week:

Sulie let out a huge yawn as she watched the apartment window from her parked car.

Not the most exciting start to a novel. I mean, even the character is bored. One does wonder, though, why she's watching an apartment window from her car. Is she waiting for someone? Is she on a stakeout? Guess we'll find out.

Drowning seemed like the best option or, for that matter, the only option.

So ... what's the first line of the novel you're reading this week? Share your link below!