Angelique aka Lotus Reads
What is the one thing that might make you spend some time browsing through a particular book at a book store? For some it's an interesting cover or the blurb, for others it's the title, but for me, it's usually the first line of the book. I'm such a sucker for good first liners that I decided to collect a few that really stood out for me.
I guess no post on first liners could ever be complete without Tolstoy's line from Anna Karenina:
"All happy families are alike. All unhappy families are unhappy in their own way". Another great first line often quoted and more often the subject of a joke is from Moby Dick: "Call me Ishmael". I really didn't think much about this particular first line until I saw some graffiti in Toronto the other day which read "Call me, Ishmael" !
And from Tahmima Anam's "A Golden Age": "Dear Husband, I lost our children today". I will confess when I first saw those lines they were so powerful that I knew then and there I was going to be by the book. Although it was an impulsive buy I will never regret it because the book turned out to be an absolutely golden read. The book I am reading currently not only has a great opening line - "Impulse is intuition on crack"- but a great title as well "What The Psychic Told the Pilgrim" is Jane Christmas' true adventure story of traveling on foot to Spain's Camino de Santiago de Compostetla to celebrate a milestone - her 50th birthday . This decision to make the pilgrimage that most people take years pondering over was made on a short plane ride that Christmas took. What made Ms. Christmas want to undertake such a challenge?
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