It’s Friday! Whoohooo!!!
That means it’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line!
The book I’m featuring today is A Changed Agent by Tracey Lyons
And the first line is…
“‘My trunk!’ Elsie Mitchell watched in horror as her trunk fell off the over packed porter’s wagon, spilling its contents onto the platform at the Albany train station.”
So… what’s your First Line today?
Let me know in the comments and then head over to share your First Line with these friends:
Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen
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(If you’d like to join us on your blog for First Line Fridays, shoot me an email and let me know!)
Tracey Lyons is giving away a copy of A Changed Agent to one of my readers – your choice of a paperback (US only) or Kindle copy. Comment on this post – with your first line – and then head over to my interview with Tracey to claim 5 extra entries!
I’m reading What Happened on Beale Street by Mary Ellis for book club … tonight! Need to get reading!
“Nicki Price opened one eye to find an irate face looming over her in the dark room.”
i really need to read that series!
“Heavy metal music blared through paper-thin walls.” From Time Search by Danele J. Rotharmel
1987
Samuel Mason sat parked in his white DeSoto across the street from Centerville Christian Church. – and the Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers
HAPPY FRIDAY!
Happy Friday back atcha, Caryl! 🙂
Well, I have 2 books stacked on top of each other so which is closer?
Belle Natale by Marianne Evans:
Ashley Coratini sat on a ledge at the center of the Ponte Vecchio that jutted outward from the base of the structure and left just enough room to position her back comfortably against cold, time-worn stone and dangle her legs.
Shine Like the Dawn by Carrie Turansky:
Sunlight blinked off the rippling surface of Tumbledon Lake and into Margaret Lounsbury’s eyes.
both sound fantastic! I get to read Shine Like the Dawn soon and I’m so looking forward to it!
Carrie! Thank you so much for including me in your first line Friday!!
of course!
“There was a lot to love about social gatherings, but Trent had never quite caught on to the appeal of balls.” From An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter.
eeee!!! I’m looking forward to reading this one soon!
“Good morning, Jenny.”
From More Than a Promise by the awesome Ruth Logan Herne!
love her! and that book!
By the time we left Calais, I thought I hated Dottie Forsyth.
ooo what book is that? It sounds interesting!
“It was a terrible night to die.” Tangled Webs by Irenen Hannon
i love her books!!
Folks said Thomas Beaufort could track a housefly through a hurricane, and though he admitted that it might be a slight exaggeration, he felt it wasn’t too far off.
~The Bounty Hunter’s Baby by Erica Vetsch
i love Erica’s books!
Here is my first line:
Kit Kat and Lucy by Lonnie Hull DuPont
You will always by lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. Colonial American Proverb
“To say moving from San Francisco to rural Michigan was not easy for me would be an understatement.”
Happy reading and Happy Friday!
ooo that proverb gives me an idea for something I’ve been stumped on. Thank you! Lol
“I don’t know why you stay with that loser anyway.” ~ Restoring Love by Jennifer Slattery
yay!
This week my first line comes from The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany by Robin Neillands “This is the story of a machine.” I haven’t started it yet, but looking forward to it!
i’m going to guess this is nonfiction? 😉
Yes…..
Wiltshire, England–1867
Amala sat on a particularly uncomfortable chair at the edge of the crowded and stuffy ballroom.
~Color of Love by Anita Stansfield
sounds like a great book!
“Inhaling a steadying breath of the steamy August Baltimore air, Avery Tate paused a moment, clutching the metal door handle.”
Dani Pettrey’s Still Life.
yaaaay! i’m looking forward to that one!
I’m currently reading “Two Ways Home” by Sondra Kraak. The opening line is:
“He loves me. He loves me not.”
i still need to read that one (it’s killing me that i haven’t yet)
I sit okay to share the first line of my upcoming release?
“Shelby made her way slowly, carefully through complete darkness to the small guesthouse.”
from Raging Storm by yours truly, and it releases 2-1-17
Oooohhhhh….I can’t wait for Raging Storm!!!!!!!
more than okay to share! 😀 Can’t wait! And i just saw that the paperbacks will be in stock at Amazon THIS WEEK! yay!
“This is all my fault.” Unblemished by Sara Ella. I. AM. LOVING. THIS. BOOK. Even though my heart hurts. 🙁
Oh YAY!! I knew you would love it!! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the ending 😀
My first line: “Servants can marry whomever they want, but a king’s ward has no freedom at all.” —- The Silent Songbird, Melanie Dickerson
yay! 😀
“They share the truth of an experience that only those who were there can truly know. As part of a regiment of southwestern cowpunchers, Oklahoma Indians, Ivy League football stars, and champion polo players, they had faced death boldly and defeated the enemy.
They had been Rough Riders.”
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner.
Happy Friday!!!
oh that sounds like a really interesting one!
I started it last night and it is really good so far. Makes me excited to read his one about Jesse James too, which I bought last week but did not know it was the same author.
ooo yay! that one sounds good too!
I am so psyched for the Jesse James one too because it is about his hold-up at the bank in Northfield, Minnesota, where I spent a lot of time in my childhood. Northfield was very close to where I grew up.
Oh cool!
“A lump the size of a lemon lodged in Ainslee McKay’s throat.”
–The Artisans Wife by Judith Miller
that’s a great first line – makes me want to keep reading for sure! 🙂
“You shouldn’t be here.” With gentle authority, Julianne Chevalier ushered a man twice her age to the doorway of his young wife’s lying-in chamber.–The Mark of the King by Jocelyn Green
such a beautifully written book!
“Many a man has been inspired by a great father or a noble brother, and young six-year-old Lord Trent Hawthorne had been blessed with both.” An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter
I just got this in the mail, and I’m sooooo excited to read it! 😀
yay! I am looking forward to reading that one soon too
I just finished Rescue Me by Susan May Warren. *sigh* so good!
Sam wouldn’t lose another kid on his watch.
i really need to read that series!! SOON!
From “Down Squash Blossom Road” by Janet Chester Bly –
“The dark speck in the sky floated toward them, then swooshed at a fast clip.”
that sounds ominous! 🙂
I’m here! At last!
My first line this week is from Kristi Ann Hunter’s ‘A Noble Masquerade’:
“It is never a happy day when an eight-year-old girl’s cheesecake lands in the dirt, and she certainly doesn’t take kindly to the laughing little boy who put it there.”
love love love that book!
Room by Emma Donoghue
Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra.
I put two, because the First one was so short.
oh that book sounds really interesting!!