Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you’re reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)
MISTY’S BOOK:
Nuffin’!
ALEX’S BOOK:
My first line is from a book I read years ago, but have recently began to re-read because a) I want to finish the series and b) it is currently being made into a series for HBO. The book I am speaking about is A Game of Thrones, the first book of the “Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin.
“We should start back, ” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. “The wildlings are dead.”
I loved this book the first time around and am still surprised with myself for never finishing the series. The first line, to me, doesn’t really capture the essence of the book and its strong political story. This is from the prologue, which brings an element of foreboding fantasy into the story that you don’t see for most of the book. Anyway, I’m really enjoying re-reading this epic (it’s about 831 pages or so) and look forward to many future book beginnings with the rest of the series.
What are you all reading this month? Leave us a message with your own “book beginnings”.
