Find a book on your shelf that you'd like to offer with a first line that grabs you. Only post the first line!!

Here's the first offer:

"Kathleen had been painting for hours, but finally had to put the paintbrush down."

Here's a new offer (previous offer still AVL too):

"His mouth grazed the side of her neck."

I've PMd you for this one momx3lovesbooks: "Kathleen had been painting for hours, but finally had to put the paintbrush down."

Each line is from a different book. Hopefully one will take someone's fancy.

"Seven mis-shapen fingers emerged from a blinding swirl of desert sand and sage."

:huh:

And again:

"Dark spruce forest frowned on either side of the frozen waterway."

"Whenever the old man pops a beer at seven in the morning, things are off to a bad start."

"The woman on the ledge was wearing a nightgown."


PM me with the line you like. Int'l OK.

I've sent a PM asking for this book:

"Whenever the old man pops a beer at seven in the morning, things are off to a bad start."



Here is my first line grabber:

The porter said he's mind her bag.

Sending a pm now for lauraloo29's first line. :) Here's a few to choose from:

"The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and againwhen he shut the door."

"Nobody had told her that years pivoted on nothing but moments."

"Kathleen lay on the massage table and looked up at the casement windows high above her."

I will take the last one. Pm on its way.

My books:

1) " Forgive me, Father , for I have sinned." The muffled voice came from the darkest corner of the confessional in St. Patric's Cathedral.

2) "Wearing a black tuxedo, the Chief sat in a private corner of the balcony overlooking the Pacific."

3) "It was an experiment, he said."

I'll take the last one please.

1) Her last thoughts were of Raymond.

2)Sophie Dempsey didn't like Temptation even before the Garveys smashed into her 86 civic, broke her sisters sunglasses, and confirmed all her worst suspicions about people from small towns who drove beige Cadilacs.

I'd like your #2 offer please! :)

My offers:

1. It was his profession to prepare other men for death; it shocked him to be so unready for his own.

2. Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

3. About half of the ninety-three passengers, those in the tail section, of the flight out of Zurich bound for Paris and London survived when the plane ploughed into a mountainside shortly after takeoff.

I'll go with choice #2 please!

Here are three new ones:

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change?

Paul chose Greece for its predictable whiteness: the blanching heat by day, the rush of stars at night, the glint of the lime-washed houses crowding its coast.

"No point being eighty, is there?" said Liza. "If you can't be a bit outrageous?"

I will accept number two please indygo88.

Here are my lines:

"Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of violet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle."

"Most of the crowd at Mallorys Bar & Sleep over in Delta Sector had no idea what was really going on."

"I don't know if God wears a beard."

Hi RockDg9! I'll take ""Most of the crowd at Mallorys Bar & Sleep over in Delta Sector had no idea what was really going on."

In exchange I offer "Three. This is the number of your fate."

Mysterious, eh? I'll pop a couple more up for some extra choice tomorrow afternoon.

Also offering the following:

"Kess lay sprawled on the bank and gazed up at the crisp blue sky."

or

"Dressed in various shades of light brown, the Iron Orchid and her son sat upon a cream-colored beach of crushed bone."

Take your pick!

I'll take:

"Kess lay sprawled on the bank and gazed up at the crisp blue sky."

My offers:

"I knelt in the snow in front of my great-great-great-great grandfather's gravestone, took my bristle brush and cleaned the surface, working the bristles deep into each engraved letter."

"If her mind had not been on the case she had won, Katie might not have taken the curve so fast, but the intense satisfaction of the guilty verdict was still absorbing her."

"A new year generally starts out with me writing a few inspiring lines about how I'm going to lose five pounds-let's be honest, it's ten-and pay off all my credit cards and other high expectations like that."

If its still available I'll take option no. 3 please

Here are mine:

1. "When he entered the bar at ten, Kelly's was packed, which he guessed was usual for a Saturday night."

2. "Getting old was murder."

3. "The police car was not locked."

I'll take #3 if it's still AVL. If not I'll take #1.

Here's my offers.

1-"Who Am I?"

2-"I was born in 1904, so that when I was pregnant in 1943 I was near enough to be past the rightful age to bear children.

3-"There was a time back in 1970 when they would love filling in a questionaire."

One of these is a real popular book and if you choose it and it is on your shelf already I'll let you know.

Sure I'll send you #3

I'll take #2 if its still available.

Here's my offers

1. At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on Augst 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse.

2. The telephone rang, and she knew she was going to die.

3. The angel appeared on Paradise Hill the night of the fall equinox, light and dark dividing evenly over the world.

Is #3 still available? I'll take it, if so! And here are my three.....

1. At the stroke of eleven on a cool April night, a woman named Joey Perrone went overboard from a luxury deck of the cruise liner M.V. Sun Duchess.

2. Once upon a time, her mother would begin, and Carson Weatherell to this day retained a strong memory of being a very young girl in a canopy bed curling up tighter, closer.

3. Last summer a murderer came to live with us.

Going to refresh with 3 new choices. Previous still available. (U.S. preferred)

1. When I was seven, I was plucked from my uneventful life deep in darkest Massachusetts and dropped into a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink commercial.

2. Maya reached out and took her father's hand as they walked from the Underground to the light.

3. My sweater was new, stinging red and ugly.

I'll take #3

and offer:

1. Darcy Tremayne hadn't expected her senior prom to be a dream evening.

2. "Nick? I'm leaving now."

3. The road was painful.

Would love
2. "Nick? I'm leaving now."
and will offer
"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun"

I will take your book and offer in its place: "Barrabas came to us by the sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

Grabbing that one and offering up your pick of these 3:

"There was an odd haze in the room, or was it my eyes?"

"Rummage sat lonely by the edge of the gently lapping Altos, and to the music of that lapping recited the following lines:"

"Gareth was a black cat with orange eyes."

:P

I'll take: "Gareth was a black cat with orange eyes."

And offer one of these:

"All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the west, blowing from the heat of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills."

"I am going to kill a man."

"If you get there, it will be in your own time and way."

"If you get there it will be in your own time and way" sounds good catsalive.

Here are a few to choose from:
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy."

"Over half a century ago I grew up in Lewiston, a small town in western New York, a few miles north of Niagara Falls on the Canadian border."

"Far away in another realm there lives a sorcerer named Ellon, and his familiar, Sonneth."

I'd like

please RockDg9

I'll be back with my offers shortly :)

More??

My offerings are (bumped, new ones at the top):

"I'm afraid there isn't much hope," Dr. Douglas Wiltshire said, as he and his companion walked down the long hall."

"The early morning breeze blew through the vegetable garden in Union Square, shaking the leaves of the bean plants and the lacy carrot tops."

"Things never turn out the way you think they will."

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"'Lord Rajasta," Deoris greeted the old Priest anxiously, "I am glad you are come!"

"The young lieutenant-colonel was drunk, apparently, and determined to rush upon disaster."

"The 'child of the gods' had made progress"

"It gets dark out on the Rim."

"The fire pit was about twenty-five feet long by ten feet wide, and perhaps two feet deep."

"Shadows. Timmy Evans woke up in shadows."

"The late morning blazed with blue skies and the colors of fall, but none of it was for me."

"In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."

""That temeritous swordsman!" growled Death."

Can I have this one?

"Things never turn out the way you think they will."

Here's my offers:

"In one of my earliest memories, my mother and I are on the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry out brand-new television set up the steps."

"The bottle was dropped overboard on a warm summer evening, a few hours before the rain began to fall."

"She heard a knocking, then a dog barking."

I accept the first book you offered:

"In one of my earliest memories, my mother and I are on the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry out brand-new television set up the steps."

I offer:

"A jock. Terrific."

There was always a great deal of confusion, more noise, and a touch of panic to flavor the arrival of embarking passengers.

The house smelled like Christmas cookies.

I'll take #1, "A jock. Terrific.", if it is still available.

And offer these:

1. On a summer Sunday afternoon, Janelle busied herself in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on lunch.

2. Tony has never looked more beautiful than he does right now, sleeping, his features sculpted and glowing by the light of the candles.

3. Marjorie's husband, Byron Coffin, had misled her for so long that she learned to lean away from life to keep from falling over, like a woman walking a large dog.

4. Seven Valentine cards have been delivered to the house this morning by the postman, and not one of them is for me.

Hi macewoman,

I will accept #1 from you so we can keep this relay going.

I will offer:

1. Stuart Spencer hated his hotel roo excessively.

2. One hundred fifty million dollars was nothing to sneeze at.

3. Her name was Summer.

4. Happily unaware he'd be dead in twenty-three minutes, Henry W. Wyley imagined pinghing the nicely rounded rump of the young blonde who was directly in his line of sight.

5. The damp, snapping wind iced the bones thrugh to the marrow.

Ooh, I'll take "One hundred fifty million dollars was nothing to sneeze at." and offer:

"She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes."

"Guido Maffeo was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples."

"Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks."

Could I take
"Guido Maffeo was castrated when he was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in Naples"

and offer up

"Usually, the dwarfs kept bringing him back - back to the circus and back to India."