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 - 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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Mailbox Monday and It's Monday What Are You Reading - August 17, 2011

~Mailbox Monday~

Hosted this month by

my good friend Staci of:
Life In the Thumb

We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week.

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