“Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.” First line in The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater Romantic books take up a lot of sh…| First Line Reader
“Not for the first time, an arguement had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.” First line in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling Hi, and welcome…| First Line Reader
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“You do an awfully good impression of yourself.” First line in Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis It’s still summer but July is over, so it is time for me to talk about how I spent t…| First Line Reader
“Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.” First line in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling I’m back talking about Harry Potter and we’ve m…| First Line Reader
4 posts published by Line @First Line Reader during March 2025| First Line Reader
“Give me your hat.” First line in The Bone Ships by RJ Barker I’m doing a tag today because I felt like it! I wasn’t actually tagged but a while ago, I saw a few people do The Fantasy Book Tag and with such a title, I felt obligated to do it too. I’ve been… Continue reading The Fantasy Book Tag| First Line Reader
“Happy birthday, Haymitch!” First line in Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins It’s time to freak out! Or something… My Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag is here, at least, b…| First Line Reader
“My father kept a dragon eye upon his desk.” First line in Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi Welcome to another wrap-up where I talk about all the things I did and read in the month of June. I…| First Line Reader
“Fitfull drafts of chill air blew in through the cruciform windows of the Bell Tower, and the fire did little to combat them.” First line in Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan As anyo…| First Line Reader
“My pen falters, then falls from my knuckly grip, leaving a worm’s trail of ink across Fedwren’s paper.” First line in Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb Am I going t…| First Line Reader
4 posts published by Line @First Line Reader during January 2025| First Line Reader
“Later!” The word, the voice, the attitude.” First line in Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman It’s summer and therefore time to share my TBR for the next three months through Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Looking back at my TBR for spring, I read 6 out of the… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: My Summer 2025 TBR| First Line Reader
“Forks. Knives. Spoons. In that order.” First line in Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman It is time for my annual Eurovision post! It’s a bit late, I know, but it was honestly also a post I considered not writing. My relationship with Eurovision was seriously tainted after the 2024 edition, but I ultimately came… Continue reading My Eurovision 2025 Top Ten and the Books They Make Me Think Of| First Line Reader
“Our bards always ask the Muse to find the beginning, but the big joke – I say joke in the loosest possible sense – is that they never then start at the bloody beginning.” F…| First Line Reader
“Why do you feed the cats, othala?” First line in The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison April is over and it is time for my monthly wrap-up! It was a month of trying to distract myse…| First Line Reader
“The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.” First line in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling After more than a year, we̵…| First Line Reader
“Happy birthday, Haymitch!” First line in Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins March isn’t completely over yet, but I won’t be finishing any more books so I thought I w…| First Line Reader
“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” First line in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone …| First Line Reader
“Walking to school over the snow-muffled cobbles, Karou had no sinister premonitions about the day.” First line in Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor It’s time for a TBR! …| First Line Reader
“It was nearing midnight and the Prime Minister was sitting alone in his office, reading a long memo that was slipping through his brain without leaving the slightest trace of meaning behind.…| First Line Reader
“Would it kill you to get here before noon?” First line in Attachments by Rainbow Rowell I made it through a freezing cold February so now it’s time for a wrap-up! Life-wise, I di…| First Line Reader
I’m still talking about 2024 as if that would help me ignore the chaos of 2025, but it’s time for me to judge the new-to-me authors I read last year. Years ago, I came up with the idea …| First Line Reader
“When I returned from San Ceterino late in the afternoon, I found that Mark and his friends had thrown half the food in our kitchen into the swimming pool.” First line in The Lessons by…| First Line Reader
“Zhongli village lay flattened under the sun like a defeated dog that has given up on finding shade.” First line in She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan I’m a frequent us…| First Line Reader
“My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down.” First line in Twilight by Stephenie Meyer A couple of months ago I made a quiz for you all that had you guessing books …| First Line Reader
“Last night I could hear them again.” First line in The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins I’m starting my annual wrap-up posts early because I have so many and I think this is a …| First Line Reader
“Shadow is not at all happy with me.” First line in Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett March is over so it is time for my wrap-up! The month was pretty unev…| First Line Reader
