First Line Friday – Donna's Reading Chair

First Line Friday: April 10th #MomsWhoRead #QuarantineLife #ReadMe #FLF #Friday #Book #Murder #SocialDistancing

As always First Line Friday comes courtesy of Hoarding Books Blog. I discovered this magic thanks to Crystal at Must Love Reviews. I bought this one when it first came out and finally on Spring Break I have time to crack this baby open!!! What book is it? First the line…

Pip knew where they lived.

I have not been able to put this book down!!!!!

Blurb

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

What are you reading this week???

First Line Friday: March 20th #SocialDistancing #FoulIsFair #MomsWhoRead #ReadMe #FridayMeme #BookMeme #Books #FLF

As always First Line Friday comes courtesy of Hoarding Books Blog. I discovered this magic thanks to Crystal at Must Love Reviews. Chugging along my Netgalley reads, I finally got the computer for myself to write a post!! This homeschooling thing takes up quite a bit of time with two young ones!!! On to the first line of what I’m currently reading…

Sweet Sixteen is when the claws come out.

*jaw drop* Well ok then…

Blurb

Elle and her friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Elle’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Elle as their next target.

They picked the wrong girl.

Sworn to vengeance, Elle transfers to St. Andrew’s. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. She’ll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school’s hierarchy. And she and her coven have the perfect way in: a boy named Mack, whose ambition could turn deadly.

Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.

What are you reading today? Are you affected by the Coronavirus pandemic??

First Line Friday: March 13th #FridayMeme #BookMeme #FLF #CityOfGirls #ElizabethGilbert #MomsWhoRead #ReadMe #Books #FirstLine

As always First Line Friday comes courtesy of Hoarding Books Blog. I discovered this magic thanks to Crystal at Must Love Reviews. FINALLY, I am on to a book I am enjoying!!!

I received a letter from his daughter the other day,

This was lent to me by a co-worker and has been sitting on my stand for awhile now…I will admit I didn’t think I’d enjoy this one as much as I have!! What is it?

Blurb

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don’t have to be a good girl to be a good person.

Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are.

Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it turns her new world upside down in ways that it will take her years to fully understand. Ultimately, though, it leads her to a new understanding of the kind of life she craves-and the kind of freedom it takes to pursue it. It will also lead to the love of her life, a love that stands out from all the rest.

Now ninety-five years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life – and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it. At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time, she muses. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is. Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.

What are you reading today??

First Line Friday: March 8th

As always First Line Friday comes courtesy of Hoarding Books Blog. I discovered this magic thanks to Crystal at Must Love Reviews.

This week I am highlighting a book that is expected to be released on April 2, 2019…

When Claire Rawlings thought of her family, it was more with the mind of a geologist than a physician – the sweeping drumlin of Andrea’s collarbone, the narrow plain of Lily’s sternum, the sculpted features of Glen’s face. Her dreams, too, were crowded with images of rocks and continents gliding, meeting at ragged seams, and then drifting apart.

Interesting…what? Well now I have to know continue reading to see the correlation between a geologist and a physician. That’s a bit of a bizarre comparison, no?

OH! You probably want to know what book this is too…ok, ok, ok, here it is.

Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly

Look for my review of this book to come soon! There has been a lot of hype about this book, I hope it lives up to the excitement. As an added bonus, I’m going to leave you with the Goodreads synopsis today too!

A mother’s chance decision leads to a twist of fate that is every parent’s worst nightmare.

Claire Rawlings, mother of two and medical resident, will not let the troubling signs of an allergic reaction prevent her from making it in for rounds. But when Claire’s symptoms overpower her while she’s driving into work, her two children in tow, she must pull over. Moments later she wakes up on the floor of a gas station bathroom-her car, and her precious girls have vanished.

The police have no leads and the weight of guilt presses down on Claire as each hour passes with no trace of her girls. All she has to hold on to are her strained marriage, a potentially unreliable witness who emerges days later, and the desperate but unquenchable belief that her daughters are out there somewhere.

Little Lovely Things is the story of a family shattered by an unthinkable tragedy. Played out in multiple narrative voices, the novel explores how the lives of those affected fatefully intersect, and highlights the potential catastrophe of the small decisions we make every day.

*runs to go continue reading*

First Line Friday: January 25th

My first First Line Friday courtesy of Hoarding Books Blog. I discovered this magic thanks to Crystal at Must Love Reviews.

This week my friend and I decided to do a buddy read where we would read the same book at the same time. She walks around and listens to book on audible (and is trying hard to convert me over, haha) and I read them (either physical or ebook form), but, we always enjoy discussing them the same! This week she happened to pick out this one, which we both happened to have in our libraries…

Amazon //\\ Goodreads

Here’s that opening line that hooked me in…

“I made a mistake. I know that now.”

All I will say is my poor children. After reading this book I do not think I will let them go anywhere, at any age, without me present. Look for my review coming soon! Until then, what is the first line of what you’re currently reading right now?