First Lines Friday, December 2, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany LaFerriere

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, this is the fifth time Bouba's played that Charlie Parker record. He's crazy about jazz, and this must be his Parker period. Last week I had Coltrane for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now it's Parker's turn.

also I am reading:

Chill Run by Russell Brooks

Eddie Barrow, Jr. didn't remember feeling the bullet tear into his shoulder. From where he lay on the hardwood floor, the ceiling spun in and out of focus. God, I can't even lift my arms and legs, more or less move my wrists.

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First Lines Friday - November 11, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

   
• Grab your current read(s).
   
• Share the first line(s).
   
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

I Am Going Where I Belongby Hans Lindor

"On December 6, 1492, Christopher Columbus' admiralty ship threw down anchor near the Mole St. Nicholas coast.  Columbus baptized the newly discovered land Hispaniola, meaning "Little Spain".  Today, the soil is divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic."

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First Lines Friday - October 15, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

Ladies' Man by Frederick Germaine

"It was a brisk and windy evening in late March, and I was walking towards my blue 1978 Datsun B210 right after baseball practice.  I was known as, Damien Hardy, a seventeen-year-old senior at Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles.  My six-foot one frame complimented my muscular one hundred ninety-five pound build perfectly."

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First Lines Friday - October 7, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

The Arranger by L.J. Sellers

"Lara Evans attached the LifePac and hit the man with two hundred joules of electrical current. His eyes popped open, his pulse stabilized, and piss flooded his sweatpants. Terrific."

The Healing of Love & Laughter by Rickey Teems II

"Isaac Golden was perspiring profusely. He could almost feel his sweat glands producing the drops which departed his armpits and trickled down his ribs."

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First Lines Friday - September 23, 2011

This is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize it and How to Respond by Patricia Evans

"Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them.  Sticks and stones may break

our bones, but words will break our hearts.....- Robert Fulghum

"Most of us are aware that name calling is verballly abusive.  If you have been called idiot, dummy, bitch or any other derogatory name, you have been verbally abused."

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First Lines Friday - August 26, 2011

First Lines Friday

First Lines Friday is a new bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

"It always starts off like this."

~Tha Bottom Line by Hope Lynette' 

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First Lines Friday - From The House on Blackstone Moor by Carole Gill - July 4, 2011

First Lines Friday

First Lines Friday is a new bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

"They said my father was mad, corrupted by evil and tainted with sin, which is why he did what he did."

~The House on Blackstone Moor by Carole Gill

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First Lines Friday (from Money Can't Buy Love by Connie Briscoe) - July 29, 2011

First Lines Friday

First Lines Friday is a new bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do:

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
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"Lenora stood above the polished chrome faucet in her master bathroom, razor blade held firmly in one hand, and thought of slashing her wrist."

~ Money Can't Buy Love by Connie Briscoe

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First Lines Friday

First Lines Friday

First Lines Friday is a new bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. Here is what you do: 

• Grab your current read(s).
• Share the first line(s).
• Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists.

"HOT, WET, STICKY and naked is what I see in the reflection staring back at me as we lay in a king size bed with mirrored ceilings above us.  Damn, he's insatiable."

~ Wikked by LM Blakely

"I was sitting at the end of the bar sipping single-malt Scotch when I spotted the tall blonde woman with the large green eyes and the small gray gun."

~ Flesh and Bones: A Jake Lassiter Novel Paul Levine

"Jordan Copeland ran like a monster through the rain-soaked woods, chased only by his demons.  The darkness fell in on him--and within him--as he fought the choking sensation in his throat."

~ Revelations Laurel Dewey

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