Happy Friday! And welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books!!! Since it’s Friday, it’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today, I’m featuring the first lines of all 10 winners of 2019’s The Christy Award!
learn more about each book by clicking the winner graphic
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Early Summer 1423
Village of Mindius, Lithuania
Galloping her horse past the big oak tree, Mulan pulled the bowstring taut.
The ten-passenger landing craft’s hatchway admitted a swirl of foul, frigid air.
PROLOGUE
An earthquake started it.
Island of Sicily
1388 BCThe pulse of the sea pressed me forward, urging my body deeper into its embrace.
“I discovered a secret.”
November 30, 1864
Carnton Plantation
Franklin, Tennessee
21 miles south of Nashville
“And this, children, is a drawing of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.”
(Becoming Mrs. Lewis also won BOOK OF THE YEAR!)
1926
Bronx, New YorkFrom the very beginning, it was the Great Lion who brought us together.
I’m not a violent man, but I have a dozen reasons for pulling my cab over and throwing the chattering man in my back seat onto the curb.
The sense of dread that began with Becky’s email pressed Gillian Short deep into her seat as passengers filed past her down the aisle, a line of eye-rubbing yawns and bouncing impatience.
“Have the nightmares been getting worse?”
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JoJo
In the glow of the town’s newly strung Christmas lights, all her fears seemed to fade.
Sometimes stories are more about the one doing the telling than the tale being told.
A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter
Oops, I posted the same thing as Winnie.
Here’s the first line from Chapter 1. A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter
“Sometimes, despite time, distance, and a significant amount of ignoring it, the past never quite went away.”
that’s ok – it’s allowed 😉
Happy Friday! ?
Over on my blog I’m sharing the first line from Misleading Miss Verity by Carolyn Miller: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/11/07/first-line-friday-109/. I’m currently reading Once Upon a Christmas, a novella collection. I’ll share a line from there:
“Stretching her arm, Li slammed her hand on her phone and tapped to snooze the alarm.”
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. ?❤?
yay! i can’t wait to read both of those books – i need more reading time in my life
love that line!
beautiful!
Oops. Forgot the title. The Wedding Dress Christmas by Rachel Hauck
love her books! 🙂
“Sometimes stories are more about the one doing the telling than the tale being told.”
From A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter
i love this line!
Yay 🙂 I got five of my guesses for winners correct for The Christy Awards.
My first line for the CF I have just finished reading which was Fire Storm by Nancy Mehl read ” He waits, hidden in the shadows of the tall, stately trees that line the street”
yay! I loooooove that series by Nancy!
LOVE’S THANKFUL HEART
Since it is three novellas, I’ll give the first line of each one.
Jamesport, Missouri
Nothing is going right.
GINGERBREAD WISHES by Laura V. Hilton
The frigid air sliced through Crist Petersheim’s thrift shop parka, sweatshirt, and old flannel shirt.
THANKSGIIVNG STRANGERS by Rachel J. Good
“I have something exciting to tell you!” Rosemary said, her voice singing within the small confines of Monroe’s buggy.
THANKSGIVING FROLIC by Thomas Nye
i love Laura & Rachel’s books!
Those are some intriguing first lines! 🙂
🙂
Over on my blog I’m sharing the first line from A Match for Emma by Pepper Basham.
Here I’ll share with you the first line from chapter 5 —
“There was something about front porch swings.”
I hope you have a wonderful weekend full of bookish delights!
i love that book so much 🙂
Prologue: “The fountan pen in the man’s hand skidded across the journal, leaving a blotch of ink like black blood.”
Formula of Deception by Carrie Stuart Parks
I love her books!
“Sometimes stories are more about the one doing the telling than the tale being told.” – A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter (just arrived yesterday! Can’t wait to read it!)
love that line!
Apparently several of us are reading Kristi Ann Hunter’s A Pursuit of Home (including me) so I will post the first line of Natalie Walters Deadly Deceit because it’s net on my list.
“In the face of small-town news, all creativity left Vivian DeMarco.”
I have several of these award winners on my TBR list!!
*NEXT (I do not have the book in a net)
LOL LOL!
i can’t wait to start reading Natalie’s series 🙂
Just looked through all the winners, and they are almost all books that I commented on or want to read. That is so cool!! Can’t wait to read these! So many books, so little time!!
YAY! (and yes i know that feeling well lol)
My first line would be the one from Becoming Mrs. Lewis — I’m reading that now!!! We missed you at the Christys, Carrie!!!! 🙂
I MISSED BEING THERE!!! And yes I said that just now while wailing lol 😉
A biting gust of Cornish wind screamed downward from the churning sky, billowing Cordelia Greythorne’s jet-black traveling cape.
My first line is from The Pursuit of Home by Kristi Hunter
Marlborough, England 1816
Sometimes, despite time, distance, and a significant amount of ignoring it, the past never quite went away.
Congrats to all the winners! Fabulous bundle of books. ?
All this happened, more or less. / first line
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow.
8th January, 1946
Mr. Sidney Stark, Publisher
Stephens & Stark Ltd.
21 St. James’s Place
London S.W.1
England
Dear Sidney,
Susan Scott is a wonder. We sold more than forty copies of the book, which was very pleasant, but much moor thrilling from my standpoint was the food.
As long as there has been God, there have been God chasers. The God Chasers by Tommy Tenney
The house was eerily silent. Molly Bennett leaned against the closed door, too weary to move another step.
–The Lake Season by Denise Hunter
If only leaving her problems behind were as simple as leaving home.
Her place in time by Stephanie McGee
“I jumped out of bed that morning with one question in my mind — sun or fog?” or “The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.”