The First Lines

An account dedicated to the highlighting the first lines of books 📖 CR: A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft🚨

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Today’s #firstline is from Lize Meddings’ amazing title, #TheSadGhostClub 👻
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“Zzzzzzzzz.”
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This first line is a little different from my normal content, because this book heartwarming little #book is a #graphicnovel! 📖
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What are you #currentlyreading, #booktwt?

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@freedofdark Yes!! 👏

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The #firstlines from @neilblackmo’s @PolariPrize shortlisted, The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle 🖤
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“My mother was sure that in the future, I would be a good person. Or she was sure that I - or rather my brother, Edgar, and I - might meet good people, and become their friends.”

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Today’s #firstlines are from James Han Mattson’s #novel, Reprieve 🩸
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“Q. When you got to Cell Five, what did you see?
A. The defendant was holding a knife to Bryan Douglas’s throat and screaming for John.”
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When a brutal murder occurs in an escape room, who will get out?🗝

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@BookFairy0 I just finished A Lesson In Vengeance by Victoria Lee? It’s dark academia and SO good! 🕸🕷📖🕯

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Today’s #firstlines come from Janet Charles’ The Paris Library 📚
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“Numbers floated around my head like stars. 823.”
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I picked this book up after months of hearing about it to try out some #historicalfiction. It’s a charming story about the power of books in the face of war.

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Thank you @Tess_Amy_ for the RT 👏 I took your book into Fulham to take the photos, just around the corner from Eel Brook Common!

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Today’s #firstlines are from Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder 📜
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“Threads of steam rose from the warm tarmac. The alleyway was quiet tonight, the perfect setting for the conveyance of secrets.”
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A new #story of a secret spy network miles below the streets of #London. 🐍

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Hey, #booktwt! Today’s #firstlines come from @shipstead’s new book, Great Circle ⭕️
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“I was born to be a wanderer. I was shaped to the earth like a seabird to a wave.”
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This beautiful new #novel is one of my most anticipated #May releases!

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Today’s #firstline is from @jennysaint’s new release, Ariadne 🍁
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“I am Ariadne, Princess of Crete, though my story takes us a long way from the rocky shores of my home.”
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This novel follows the story of Ariadne, a beautiful woman determined to set her own fate.🏛

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@lovefromkiana Ariadne by Jennifer Saint 🍇 It just released yesterday 🤩

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Thank you @rosarankingee for bringing the readership age to our attention. We’ve remedied it in the new post. We’re so excited to dive into the novel this weekend! 👏

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This #firstline comes from a new novel by @rosarankingee, Dreamland 🎡
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“Today I watched a man walk into the sea. Not walk, he was running, the top half of his body moving faster than his legs through the water.”
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The sea is rising on English sea-towns, life moving inland 🌊

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@BookFairy0 Prepare the tissues 🤧💔 (They’re both great reads though!)

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Today’s #firstline is from Pip Williams’ bestselling novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words 🏷
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“Before the lost word, there was another.”
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Esme, daughter of a lexicographer, learns words associated with women are intentionally being left out of the first Oxford Dictionary. 🚲

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Attention #booktwt, @netflix’s TV series #ShadowandBone is out! To celebrate, here’s the novel’s #firstline 🦌
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“Standing on the edge of a crowded road, I looked down onto the rolling fields and abandoned farms of the Tula Valley and got my first glimpse of the Shadow Fold.”

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@myvenusmoon I just started the new YA release Dreamland, by Rosa Rankin-Gee 🌊

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Hello, #booktwt!

We just wanted to do a quick. #introduction post: we are The First Lines. An account all about the first lines of books.

You can't judge a book by its cover, but what about the first line? Follow along to discover some #newbooks and #authors!

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Today’s #firstline is from @afiaatakora’s Conjure Women 🪨
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“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.”
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Thank you @booksthatmatter for sending this in the April box in honor of Black Women’s History Month 🗓
#booktwt

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Another lovely #firstline 🌆
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“The eleventh apartment had only one closet, but it did have a sliding glass door that opened onto a small balcony, from which he could see a man sitting across the way, outdoors in only a T-shirt and shorts even though it was October, smoking.”