Welcome to July!
Since it’s Friday, 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 Just Look Up by Courtney Walsh.
And the first line is …
“Just breathe.”
Let me know your first line in the comments & then head over to see what First Lines these friends are sharing today:
Bookworm Mama || Singing Librarian Books || Faithfully Bookish || Radiant Light
Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen || All the Book Blog Names are Taken || Robin’s Nest
Fiction Aficionado || Bibliophile Reviews || Kathleen Denly || Lauraine’s Notes
With A Joyful Noise || A Baker’s Perspective || Joy of Reading || C Jane Read
Moments Dipped in Ink || Molly’s Cafinated Reads
Interested in Just Look Up?
Check out my Q&A with Courtney Walsh and enter the giveaway for Just Look Up!
They were going to drown.
True Devotion (Uncommon Heroes series)
by Dee Henderson
that’s a good one!!
His brown eyes were cavernous pools boiling with Mayhem.
The Fisherman’s Nymph by Jamie Jo Wright in Of Rags and Riches Romance Collection
ooo i can’t wait to read that collection!
Maple leaves draped over the tree house window, the silvery fronds linked together like rings of chain mail to protect the boy and girl playing inside.
Catching the Wind, by Melanie Dobson
Hi Cathy! I loved this book by Melanie – hope you do too 🙂
Robert had a bad feeling about the way things were working out. — The Captain Takes A Wife by Doris Durbin. I found this book by a local author while spending a weekend at our cabin in N GA. Post-Civil War soldier turned circuit riding preacher.
oh that sounds really interesting! I’ll have to check into that one!
On my blog this week I’m excited to be teaming up with Carrie Turansky and sharing the first line & cover reveal for her new book “Across the Blue” scheduled to be released early 2018! I wanted to share another great line on the comments, so I’ve borrowed the book that my 9 year old son is currently reading.
“Charlie Scott leaned against the corner of the garage, every inch of him spelling boredom.” — Some Summer by: Jean Vandevenne
1987 Bob Jones University Press, Greenville, SC
i love her new cover! Can’t wait to read it too! 🙂
“I have never served as a soldier, yet I have the strange sense that most of my life I have stared down the blade of a sword, the face of my adversary haunting me.”
Bread of Angels by Tessa Afshar
such a good book!!!
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!
MAY 1, 1774
OHIO RIVER NEAR YELLOW CREEK
Jeremiah Ring had witnessed death as often as the next man on the Allegheny frontier, but in all his thirty years he had encountered no deaths more dismaying than those confronting him now. – Many Sparrows by Lori Benton
oh my goodness – have you read it yet? It’s so good!!!
There have been two moments in my life when everything changed. –Just One Damned Thing After Another, Jodi Taylor
that’s a great first line! And is it wrong of me to love that title too? 😉
Seriously… two words? 😉 Looks like a great setup though. 🙂
lol!
Remembering that I’m a librarian, and that I’m grabbing the book closest to my desk!
“It was one of those January days in New York that feels like winter will never end.” Property of a Noblewoman by Danielle Steel
haha!! That’s a good first line, though 😉
Jody Hedlund,An Uncertain Choice:My slippered feet slapped the dirt road and my heart hammered against my chest like a battering ram. Medieval romance of young people , first of a trilogy!
yay! Love that series!
“I met Dobbs on the day my world fell apart.” “The Sweetest Thing” by Elizabeth Musser
I loved this book.
i love Elizabeth’s books!
Carrie,
My first line is the same as yours.
I’m reading this right now and so far I’m really enjoying it.
I love how Courtney writes. It grabs you right away!
Thanks for sharing!
absolutely! you are right
By some rare twist of fate and circumstances, she was early.
-The Warning Track, WIP ?
Happy Friday!
My first line is: “This fairy tale begins in 168 during a garbage strike.” ~ The Changeling by Victor Lavalle.
Dinh@Arlene’s Book Club
I can’t wait to read Courtney’s book!!!
Dutch Whitney hit the bog hard, tumbling forward to smack facedown into the muck. – Grounded Hearts by Jeanne M. Dickson
“Like manna from heaven, the words fell from the sky.”
High as the Heavens by Kate Breslin
This is a good line…not gonna lie!
“Beware the ides of March.” Shakespeare might have been onto something, Cam Flaherty mused.
MURDER MOST FOWL by Edith Maxwell
Wow. I have my first Courtney Walsh book in my TBR pile.
“Ross Springer knew he was going into the drink the second Abby Cushman stepped up to the mark, fixed those intelligent blue eyes on the bull’s-eye, and let the beanbag zip.” Hook, Line, and Sinker by Susan May Warren
I looked through my “read these NOW” pile & decided, based on the first line, that my next read will by Sarah E. Ladd’s A Stranger at Fellsworth, “Annabelle gasped at the sight that met her eye as she passed the parlor door.” Technically, though, the first line is from the prologue:
Superintendent’s Cottage, Fellsworth School
Surrey, England, 1807
“She shouldn’t be listening.”
Awesome first line…the next few pages could answer that line is so many ways. Happy Monday!
So true! Hope you have a great week, Heather 🙂
Absolutely LOVED Courtney’s book! I’m having her on my blog soon. 🙂
My first line is:
“I could not hold my breath for seven minutes.”
The Heir by Kiera Cass
ooo i want to read that series soon!
Julia Foster lifted her gaze to the clear October sky as a lark swooped past.
The Governess of Highland Hall – Carrie Turansky
Oops! I posted on the wrong blog! Haha. Time to go back to bed and it’s only 8am.
hahaha! i know that feeling!
love that series!