I pushed and he finally said that he was reading Scaramouche ... and I quoted the opening line to him (which surprised him no end). (It IS one of the great opening lines: "He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad")
That is a good line.
For my challenge this year it was slim pickings as I didn't read as much as I usually do or want to. And not a lot of first lines stood out. A few that did were in even more obscure books than some of those I selected and I do try to pick stuff people might have read or at least heard of.
You can find the answers here. I like the Shirley Jackson one. Pretty good for a first novel.
I’m very much looking forward to trawling the Yuletide stories this year to give me something to do for solo Christmas
You can find the answers here.
Oh, I have read one of those! #7, but it was 20+ years ago. That line did not stick with me.
I was looking at some of the previous lists and I hadn't read it then, but if The Library Book had been on the list this year I totally would've gotten it.
I literally just heard about Murderbot this week. Is now on my Kindle.
We used to have a game that was sort of Balderdash plus first lines. You'd get a title and author, and everyone wrote the first and last lines, except for the person who drew the card; they wrote the real ones. Points for anyone who knew and wrote the real ones...points for getting people to guess yours was real. If I didn't know the first and last lines, I would try to write something that would be as hilarious and offensive as possible...so I guess Balderdash plus first lines plus Cards Against Humanity.
I was looking at some of the previous lists and I hadn't read it then, but if The Library Book had been on the list this year I totally would've gotten it.
I love
The Library Book.
And the chapters are so short I remember it being great for bedtime reading. As opposed to
The Hot Zone,
which the Math Greek sent me just before the start of shelter-in-place when I was too scared to read it. I finally did in the summer. In fact, those two, and the other non-fiction book on the list,
The Feather Thief,
were all gifts from the MG. I'm not a huge fan of non-fiction but they were all great reads that I would recommend.
I finished Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo last night. I absolutely loved it!
I remember really disliking the writing style in
The Hot Zone.
I thought
The Coming Plague
by Laurie Garrett was much more clearly presented and engaging to read.
And it appears that it is currently free in Kindle format:
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Volans, so like Low Definition for book quotes.
like Low Definition for book quotes
Yes! And now I need Low Def.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
I did too! It was exactly my jam.
