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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Another week down and bring on the heatwave! We’re literally trying to do as little as possible over here with this heat and keep our house as cool as we can. One of the exciting things we’ll be doing this weekend is celebrating our kiddos finishing their school year. For those that don’t know, we homeschool our three kids, and their school year is officially over and summer break is beginning!
It has been a wonderful first half of 2024 and we can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us!
Question of the Day
If you could travel across space and visit other planets, would you?
Let me know in the comments below!
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
The largest private collection of rare artifacts from other worlds could be found in central New Jersey at Princeton University, and if anyone knew Maya Hoshimoto was a thief, they wouldn’t have let her anywhere near there.
Fortunately, no one did.
And anyway, she wasn’t a thief anymore, just a thirty-one-year-old graduate student entering her second year toward a PhD in comparative cultures-who happened to know a lot about foreign artifacts.
First Lines Friday reveal…….
The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
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Save one world. Doom her own.Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations–until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.
Looking for book recs…
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