First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page.
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first.
- Finally… reveal the book!
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This week has been filled with not enough sleep, feeling sick and trying to find time to read. I haven’t had nearly as much reading time as I’d like, but this weekend will be full of all the reading. We’re starting to get into summer, in case any one can’t tell, and here in Arizona it’s getting hot fast. We’re expecting to hit 100 degrees today and that means we’re reaching the long stretch of unbearable heat. Which just means more time spent inside reading. Yay!
Today’s First Lines Friday is a book I just started reading, but have chomping at the bit to get to for the last week. It’s a new to me author and features time traveling twins that are in the time frame of the Salem Witch Trials. I want to do some more posts in the coming weeks featuring some interesting history from that time frame I’m learning about on my own personal journey of genealogy researching and hope that you’ll enjoy coming along on that ride learning more about Abenaki Tribes and Colonialists of the 1600’s.
Question of the Day
If you had to choose between living during the 1920’s (The Great Depression) or living during the 1690’s (Salem Witch Trials), which would you choose?
Let me know in the comments below!
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
“It was a strange reality to be on the precipice of tragedy and not be able to stop it. Stranger, still, to live two simultaneous lives and know that one day I would have to choose one and leave the other forever.”
First Lines Friday reveal…….
For a Lifetime – Gabrielle Meyer
Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, and 1912 New York City. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever–no matter the cost.
In 1692, they live and work in their father’s tavern, where they must watch helplessly as the witch trials unfold in their village, threatening everyone. With the help of a handsome childhood friend, they search for the truth behind their mother’s mysterious death, risking everything to expose a secret that could save their lives–or be their undoing.
In 1912, Hope dreams of becoming one of the first female pilots in America, and Grace works as an investigative journalist, uncovering corruption and injustice. After their parents’ orphanage is threatened by an adversary, they enter a contest to complete a perilous cross-country flight under the guidance of a daring French aviator.
The sisters have already decided which timeline they will choose, but an unthinkable tragedy complicates the future they planned for themselves. As their birthday looms, how will they determine the lives–and loves–that are best for both of them?
Looking for book recs…
Adventures in Literature 
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