Don’t you just love Fridays? I don’t know about you, but I can often squeeze in a little more reading on the weekends than I can during the week. I doubt I’ll be doing much reading this weekend, though. I’m headed for the 2019 Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference! KRC Members can look for my spring newsletter with all my exciting updates (and, of course, the latest giveaways and book deals) to land in their inbox shortly after I return. If you aren’t yet a KRC Member, be sure to click the link below to sign up!
Today I’m featuring, A Claim of Her Own by Stephanie Grace Whitson. This is one of those books you remember vividly even years later.
Here’s the first line:
Walking down the main street in Deadwood is like stepping onto hell’s front porch.
Doesn’t that line make you excited to keep reading?
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Hi! Happy Friday.
I shared the first couple of lines from my recent read, You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn. I thoroughly enjoyed the book & definitely recommend it to you. Here, though, I will be sharing the opening lines of my current read, Mother Country by Irina Reyn.
First-World Problems
Brooklyn, April 2014
In this Brooklyn neighborhood, Nadia was sure she was the only nanny from Ukraine. She preferred to think of herself as an observer, a temporary traveler, someone waiting for a new life to begin, rather than who she really was: a worker executing an invisible task within the neighborhood’s complex ecosystem.
I’m only 10% into Mother Country but already it’s proving to be an interesting read. It’s about a mother whose daughter is trapped in war-torn Donbass in Ukraine. I think this one will turn out to be an important read for me.
Hope you enjoyed that. Happy weekend!
That sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing!
This does sound like a really good story. I’ll have to add it to my TBR!
Over on my blog, I’m sharing the first line of Amanda Dykes’s novella “Up from the Sea”. Here I’ll share with you the first line from chapter 25 of the book I’m currently reading, The Governess of Penwythe Hall by Sarah E. Ladd. “They’d found her.”
That one is on my TBR. 🙂
Happy Friday!
This sounds like such a good read. I love how the opening line hooks you right into the story 🙂
On my blog today I’m sharing the first line from Melody Carlson’s Courting Mr. Emerson:
“George Emerson didn’t need anybody.”
https://thepreppybookprincess.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-line-friday-courting-mr-emerson.html
Have a great weekend!
Well, I already know what George’s problem is. 😉 Happy reading!
Happy Friday!
Today on my blog I am sharing the first few lines from The Memory House by Rachel Hauck. It is SO awesome. You can see my post by going to: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/04/11/first-line-friday-82-2/. Currently, I am on chapter 22, so I will share a line from there.
“The knock came late as the house rattled with the crashes and flashes of a spring thunderstorm.”
Hope you have a great weekend. Happy reading! 🙂❤️📚
I haven’t gotten to that one yet. Rachel is an excellent writer.
Looks like a good read! I love the cover art too! I just added it to my TBR 🙂
The book I shared today on my blog is Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano but I’m currently reading The Governess of Penwythe Hall by Sara E Ladd so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (17) here: “Delia chewed her lip as she traversed the path to Fairhold Cottage, mentally practicing what she wanted to say.” Hope you have a great day and a wonderful weekend!
The Governess of Penwythe Hall seems popular today. I may need to move it higher on my TBR list.
My first paragraph is from an exceptional book by a new author: A retelling of Ruth and Naomi in Victorian times.
Shadow Among Sheaves by Naomi Stephens:
England, July, 1861
Both women were starving.
After nearly three weeks in Abbotsville, Rena’s shoulder blades now cut against her skin like she was made of paper. Head pounding, she lay beside Nell in a stable which smelled of manure, desperate for a way to escape the unbreakable claws of poverty.
Need to look up mire of Stephanie’s books!
Interesting concept. Thanks for sharing.
The cover makes me want to read the story! Happy reading Kathleen!
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Friday!
This sounds like an interesting historical romance. I’ll have to add it to my extensive TBR pile.
Today on my blog, I am sharing the opening line from Susan Anne Mason’s A Worthy Heart. I’m also reading The Daughter of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky. The first line is:
“If she lived to be one hundred and five, Katherine Evangeline Ramsey would never understand why every debutante must begin the London social season by curtsying to the king and queen.”
Hope you have a great weekend. 🙂
Hmmm. I sense a little rebellion in this heroine. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
That does sound good! Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations by V. Joy Palmer is on top of my “read this next” stack. I’m sharing from Chapter 1 on my blog, so here is the first line from the prologue:
“A great philosopher looks at his various struggles as fodder for his innovative thinking, but, since I am not a great philosopher, I look at my struggles as something akin to stepping on a bee the size of a Komodo dragon.”
Happy Friday and have a good weekend!
Ha ha ha. I love it!
Have a great time at Mt Hermon! I’ve heard it’s a great conference 🙂
I’m sharing the first line from Beyond the Stars, Past the Moons by Jebraun Clifford on my blog today. It’s from the Encircled anthology, which I’m looking forward to reading.
Here’s another first line from the anthology. This one is from Edged in Silver by Laurie Lucking:
“If only I didn’t have to go home.”
It is a wonderful conference. I always leave blessed.
That sounds like an anthology where one can sit back and enjoy the word play. 🙂
That’s a great first line!
I’m sharing about a FREE novella by Tari Faris on my blog today, but I’m also in the middle of listening to Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, narrated by Juliet Stevenson. I’m absolutely loving it–both the story and the narration. Here’s the first line from chapter 16:
The day arrived on which the masters were to have an interview with a deputation of the work-people.
Enjoy the conference!
Thank you!
That’s a loaded first line! Happy reading!
Today I’m sharing the first lines from Glory Road by Lauren K. Denton:
“I’d been on the porch steps shelling purple hull peas for less than an hour and my thumbnails had already turned purple.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-line-fridays-glory-road-by-lauren.html
I’m late this weekend because I just got back from being out of town. I will share a book that was waiting for me in the mailbox — Living Lies by Natalie Walters. “Just let go.”
Have a great week!