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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Book Beginnings #3


As book bloggers we all love starting a new book, right? Is there anything better than cracking open a new book, or starting that first page on your Kindle? So I was thinking the other day about how some book beginnings are more distinctive than others, and how a good one can really set the tone. And then I thought- why not share some good ones? Now this is subjective, of course, but a post was born- here are some that I particularly liked. 

 Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

"We were holding hands, palm against palm. I could feel his heart beating, his blood against my blood."

Lies You Never Told Me

"Storm clouds clot the edge of the night sky, stained purple from the city lights; but somehow, right over the yucca-fringed yard, the stars are still visible."

Contagion (Contagion, #1)

"Althea Sadik had barely finished positioning a new slide on the microscope stage when the evacuation alarm blared, reverberating though Northwood Point."

Girls' Night Out

"Waves lapped against the shore."

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I have the worst luck with bot-driven transports."

Divergent (Divergent, #1)

"There is one mirror in my house."

The Blue

"A body floats, unseeing eyes fixed on the brooding sky."

The Girl from the Sea

"The scent of salt and seaweed. My throat dry. Lips parched."

What She Saw

"Ferdie hated the way Vallette moved."

I Found You

"Alice Lake lives in a house by the sea." 

25 comments:

  1. Yes, this is a great post theme, for sure. I love a good first line, and last line, but posting the last lines would be a baaaaad idea. Ha ha. 😁

    My favorite here is from Lies You Never Told Me. I love descriptions of skies. 🌌

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    1. Yes it would! And I love a great first line. :)

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  2. I hope Girls Night Out gets better after that first line? This would be a cool TTT as well.

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    1. Wouldn't it? And it does get better, although it was just a 3 star for me.

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  3. I love it when a book has a first line that just grabs you like these do. I love the Martha Wells one and the one for Lies You Never Told Me.

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  4. Divergent was an awesome one! It was actually my favorite out of the trilogy (just don't count that last book).

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  5. Yes to book beginnings! So this year, in my recap chart, after each book I read, I add the first line of each book. The full plan is actually to try to write a story at the end of the year, by combinning all these first lines together!
    If you want to see, it's column AK in that chart: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1juEWZJqc7vzfk2n-53nZHchzv5TV6iOvlHCvZUuVwPU/edit?usp=sharing

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  6. I love the imagery of Lies I never told you! But men, who can resist Contagion first line??? not me!

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    1. Contagion starts out so bomb! But yeah Lies...

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  7. Love the Martha Wells' one, especially as I have an idea of what comes up in the story.

    For me the most evocative is still, 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again'

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    1. Right? and yes! I should do a classics version of ths!

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  8. Ah Murderbot again. I loved his relationship with ART!

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  9. Rogue Protocol has me so intrigued! Every time you post about it, I remember that I want to read it!

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  10. Nice beginnings. A good one really gets you from the first line

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  11. I really like the ones that become iconic, such as "There was no chance of taking a walk that day" from Jane Eyre or "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

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    1. You're right! I should really do a classics version!!

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  12. My favorite is the one from Rogue Protocol! I'd definitely keep reading after that. :)

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  13. The first sentence, paragraph, or chapter is always an important one. You need to hook your readers in!!

    Elle Inked @ Keep on Reading

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  14. The first chapter of a book can make or break a book for me but I never thought about which ones had the best ones. I love this concept :)

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  15. I had set aside a few books to do this but had too much going on the past week.

    I love, love, love a good opening line.

    Karen @ For What It's Worth

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  16. Nice choices! So many of these really do a great job of intriguing you just enough to want to keep reading.

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