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message 1: by Lindsey (last edited Dec 03, 2024 07:17AM) (new)

Lindsey Rojem (lrojem) | 1920 comments Mod
WEEKLY CHECK-IN
November 11, 2024 -- Week 46


What's the first line in the book you're currently reading?


message 2: by GailW (last edited Nov 12, 2024 07:09PM) (new)

GailW (abbygg) "On a mild autumn night in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, Crystal pulled herself up behind the wheel of an International side-dump, steered out of the sugar processing plant, and started her haul."

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich


message 3: by Denise (new)

Denise | 4 comments "Dan Foster was on his fifth Miller Lite when the sun exploded"

Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend


message 4: by Kathi (new)

Kathi | 177 comments “Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss.”
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin, which doesn’t really have anything to do with jellyfish and oceans, at least so far. (I’m about 45% done.)


message 5: by Denise (new)

Denise | 559 comments Now that my eldest sister, Maisha, was twelve, none of us knew how to relate to her anymore.

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan


message 6: by Michele (new)

Michele Olson | 534 comments "The last months of Bree's life were, absurdly, full of hope."

Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews


message 7: by Beth (new)

Beth | 211 comments "I hated the snow in Northeast Minneapolis."

Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer

or

"What are your feelings on mummies?"

Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong


message 8: by Lindsey (new)

Lindsey Rojem (lrojem) | 1920 comments Mod
"The light was good for escape today."

For She Is Wrath by Emily Varga


message 9: by Kerri (new)

Kerri | 159 comments "'If you'll permit me,' said the Stranger, 'I'd like to tell you a story."
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths.


message 10: by Hilde (last edited Nov 14, 2024 01:34PM) (new)

Hilde Helseth | 228 comments "Every lawyer in the land could make some small contribution to Geoff Tibballs' extraordinary range of Legal Blunders." - Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC

Legal Blunders by Geoff Tibballs

I am reading this for a reading challenge with my local library.


message 11: by Rose (new)

Rose (blurosemd) | 2 comments Running. They had to keep running.
The Gilded Cage (#2 of The Prison Healer)


message 12: by KateNZ (new)

KateNZ “Sometime during your life - in fact, very soon - you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”

The Miserable Mill


message 13: by Ticha (new)

Ticha Skuam (dskuam) | 43 comments "Gwen's perfect laugh reaches me from across the hotel lobby just as I step into the elevator"
Bad Habits by Amy Gentry
Bad Habits


message 14: by Narella23 (last edited Nov 16, 2024 05:04AM) (new)

Narella23 | 45 comments “Something has happened, something so extraordinary that I cannot file it into Patient One’s official medical file, which is why I am writing it here in a separate physical notebook”
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur.


message 15: by Adrienne (new)

Adrienne | 124 comments "We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world"
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking


message 16: by Carol (new)

Carol (cquan01) | 590 comments “So this was freedom.”-New York by Edward Rutherford for the November Bonus prompt-860 pages


message 17: by Beth (new)

Beth | 3 comments Police Constable Penny Rogers had been right on the bumper of the minibus, sire wailing and lights flashing, for several minutes before it. Finally pulled on to the hard shoulder of the motorway. Were they completely deaf and blind?
- How to Age Disgracefully by Claire Polley


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