Friday Firsts- September 24, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"Our arrival didn't exactly go as planned."
~Halo by Alexandra Adornetto (ARC) (ISBN 978-0-312-65626-3)

Friday Firsts- August 20, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"If there's a Hell on Earth, it's high school."
~Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers (ARC) (ISBN 978-0-7653-2808-3)

Friday Firsts- August 13, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"Before husbands, before babies, before life claimed other loyalties, it started with a wish."
~With Friends Like These by Sally Koslow (ARC) (ISBN 978-0-345-50622-1)

Friday Firsts- August 6, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"For thousands of years the Cursed Ones hid in the shadows, fooling mankind into thinking they didn't exist."
~Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (ARC) (ISBN 978-1-4169-9802-0)

Friday Firsts- July 30, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"It was 10:30 a.m. and Emily lay naked on the lilo, using her mother's favourite suede coat as a towel, and the let the gentle breeze waft her around the infinity pool."
~Rich Again by Anna Maxted (ISBN 978-0-312-57028-6)

Friday Firsts- July 23, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"If Singletree's only florist didn't deliver her posies half-drunk, I might still be married to that floor-licking, scum-sucking, receptionist-nailing hack-accountant, Mike Terwilliger."
~And One Last Thing by Molly Harper (ISBN 978-1-4391-6877-6)

Friday Firsts- July 9, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"pulling in the driveway all you can think is that this is the kind of house they were trying to duplicate back in charlotte: the real southern living deal--a big beautiful old (but newly renovated) house in an area they are calling the virginia highlands, with no hills to be seen and two states separated from virginia."
~After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy (ARC) (ISBN978-1-4424-0451-9)

Friday Firsts- June 25, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"I'd always welcomed war, but in battle my passion rose unbidden."
~Nightshade by Andrea Cremer (ISBN 978-0-399-25482-6)

Friday Firsts- June 19, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.

~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"Griffin Colburn knew something was wrong the moment he slid into the driver's seat."
~Sleepless by Cyn Balog (ISBN 978-0-385-73848-4)
 

Friday Firsts- June 11, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"I knew something was wrong with me when I feel asleep in school."
~The Turning: What Curiosity Kills by Helen Ellis (ISBN 978-1-4022-3861-1)

Friday Firsts- June 4, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"There are summers you'll always remember and summer you've forgotten before they're through."
~The Summer of Skinny Dipping by Amanda Howells (ISBN 978-1-4022-3862-8)

Friday Firsts- May 28, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"People say I'm a glass-half-empty person."~You Wish by Mandy Hubbard (ISBN 978-1-59514-292-4)

Friday Firsts- May 21, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"I hate waiting!"
~Immortalis Carpe Noctem by Katie Salidas (ISBN 978-0-9844196-0-9)
 

Friday Firsts- May 14, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"It was here, in the City of Brotherly Love, at twenty-eight years of age, that Lacey Gears first discovered she had a sister."
~My Sister's Voice by Mary Carter (ISBN 978-0-7582-2920-5)

Friday Firsts- May 7, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"If you think of high school as a kingdom--and I don't mean the regular kind of kingdom we have today, like England or Monaco, I mean those small ones in fairy tales that probably weren't kingdoms at all so much as they were nobledoms where the nobles considered themselves kings and granted themselves the right of prima nochte, that kind of thing-- if you think of my high school like one of those, then Jeremy Cole would be the crown prince."
~The Beautiful Between by Alyssa B. Sheinmel (ISBN 978-0-375-86182-6)

Friday Firsts- April 30, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

"I buried my father the day after my seventeenth birthday."
~Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey (ISBN 978-0-15-206390-0)

Friday Firsts- March 12, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"The formidable glass-and-steel structure rose from its position for Front Street like a glittering needle threading the sky."
~ City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (ISBN 978-1-4169-1429-7)

Friday Firsts- March 5, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"It's the last Friday night in August, and instead of dancing on a table at Melanie Jaffin's party with the rest of the soon-to-be junior class, I am crouched behind a tower of Meow Mix in the pet-food aisle of Shop-Co, watching my mother hyperventilate."
~For Keeps by Natasha Friend (ISBN 978-0-670-01190-2)

Friday Firsts- February 26, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
 

"Well-bred girls from good southern families are not supposed to get shot."
~Magnolia Wednesdays by Wendy Wax (ISBN 978-0-425-23235-4)

Friday Firsts- February 12, 2010

The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.
~Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
~Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
~Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)

" 'My name is Gin, and I kill people.' "
~Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep (ISBN 9781439147979)