Friday Quote Memes

A little late to the party this week...but it's still Friday! Yay me--two weeks in a row. let's make this a habit, shall we?

 

BookBeginnings on Friday is a bookish meme sponsored by Rose City Reader. Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the two first lines from The Christmas Murder (aka An English Murder) by Cyruk Hare (1951): 

Warbeck Hall is reputed to be the oldest inhabited house in Markshire. The muniment room in the northeastern angle is probably its oldest part; it is certainly the coldest.

 

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 
Here is the mine from The Christmas Murder: 

 

  "Heavens, man don't you know digestive tablets when you see them?"

Friday Quote Memes

It has been forever since I participated in any bookish memes and I miss it. I still haven't figured out what happened with my time. I don't feel like I'm busier than when I first started blogging....But anyway, here we go. We'll see if I can keep it up weekly.

 

BookBeginnings on Friday is a bookish meme sponsored by Rose City Reader. Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the two first lines from The Budapest Parade Murders by Van Wyck Mason (1935): 

The passport controller saluted vaguely and, with a final official clank of his saber, departed through the first-class compartment's sliding door. Sighing, Major Bruce Kilgour, D.S.O., M.C., extended an amazing length of tweed-clad legs and moodily regarded his rubber-cleated oxfords.

 

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 
Here is the mine from The Budapest Parade Murders: 

  "Oh, dear, I at least expected soemthing that would--" she smiled faintly--"that would make governments totter. That's the usual phrase, I believe?"

Friday Memes: Book Beginnings & Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme sponsored by Rose City Reader. Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the two first lines from The Clue of the Judas Tree by Leslie Ford (1933): 

It was just noon when I came out of Mr. McCrae's office and bumped smack into Fate in one of its better disguises. He was tall and large and blond, and awfully good looking, with gray eyes and a gravely humorous mouth.

 

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 
Here is the mine from The Clue of the Judas Tree by Leslie Ford (1933): 

 
I hope you get some sleep. Queen Elizabeth slept in your bed. They say it's well over a hundred years old

Friday Memes: Book Beginnings and Friday 56

 
Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme sponsored by Rose City Reader. Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place. 

Here are the first line from The Platypus of Doom & Other Nihilists (from the short story of the same name) by Arthur Byron Cover (1976): 

I pretended to sleep with the others, lying in the deepness of space, far away from the light of the brightest sun.

 

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 
Here is the mine from "The Armadillo of Destruction" in The Platypus of Doom & Other Nihilists (by Arthur Byron Cover (1976):

 
Leopold sprang up. He looked directly at Kline; he made a menacing gesture which he had seen a green ape use on a holovision documentary; he shouted once, as loud as he could, "Boo!"

Friday Memes: Book Beginnings & Friday 56

I have two bookish resolutions for the New Year. One--to read only from my on TBR stacks and sign up for only for challenges that will allow me to fulfill the requirements using my own books. And Two--to try harder to participate in more blogging world activities. To that end, I'm jumping back into the Friday Memes run by the fine ladies at Rose City Reader and Freda's Voice.

 
Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme now sponsored by Rose City Reader (who originally inspired the meme). Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place. 

Here are the first few lines from The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel (1901): 

Well, the memory seems to be getting rather impaired now. What, for instance, was the name of that person who preached just before the Boreal set out, about the wrongness of any more attempts to reach the North Pole?

 

(Hmm. Sounds like a Polar Expedition might be a bad idea in this book...)

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.
Here is the mine from The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel (1901):
I could have made short work and landed at Hull, but I would not: I was afraid. For I was used to the silence of the ice; and I was used to the silence of the sea: but I was afraid of the silence of England.

Friday Memes

 

Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme now sponsored by Rose City Reader (who originally inspired the meme). Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place. 

Here are the first few lines from Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon: 

...but first a word:

   You know the way. You have the key. And it is your privilege.

(Not a lot of help there....


The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

Here is the mine from Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon:

Sometimes they saw each other at the grange or in town and talked, but everybody knew everybody and no one thought anything of it. And the way people like to talk, to do matchmaking and all, they still never thought anything about George and Anna.

Friday Memes

Making another appearance in the Friday Memes (I'm still trying to figure out where all my blogging time when this year....)...
 

Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme now sponsored by Rose City Reader (who originally inspired the meme). Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the first few lines from Death by Sheer Torture by Robert Barnard:

 

I first heard of the death of my father when I saw his obituary in The Times. I skimmed through it, cast my eye over the Court Circular, and was about to turn to the leader page when I was struck by something odd in the obituary and went back to it

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 

Here is the mine from Death by Sheer Torture by Robert Barnard:

And if anyone by some laughable contingency had offered Chris a glamorous and exciting job, she would have cast a pall of the humdrum over it within hours of signing on.

Friday Memes

I've been very delinquent in my meme participation, but here I am trying to get back in the swing of things.

Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme now sponsored by Rose City Reader (who originally inspired the meme). Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the first few lines from Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh:

 

"Roderick," said Lady Alleyn, looking at her son over the top of her spectacles, "I am coming out."

"Out?" repeated Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn vaguely. "Out where, mama? Out of what?"

 

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 

Here is the mine from Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh:

"This bloody murder, this is, and I want to see this Mr. Clever, what's diddled me and done in as nice a little gent as ever I see, swing for it."