First Line (What's the first line of the book you're currently reading)

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HellsBells Oct 2018 9:49pm, 22 Oct 2018 24,533 posts	0 HellsBells Like oversize birds, we balanced on our respective branches, each of us with a plastic container in one hand and a feather brush in the other. The History of Bees by Maja Lunde - nearly finished it and loving it very much
beebop Oct 2018 10:14pm, 22 Oct 2018 1,226 posts	0 beebop [Pedant’s Corner] Shouldn’t that be weighing room or possibly changing room? Dressing room sounds more theatre-like. ‘The destroyers came from out of the desert’. First line, The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey (non-fiction). ‘Palmyra must have been expecting them: for years, marauding bands of bearded, black-robed zealots, armed with little more than stones, iron bars and a sense of righteousness had been terrorising the east of the Roman Empire’. Sub-title: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. Very good so far.
Sharkie Oct 2018 10:18pm, 22 Oct 2018 13,989 posts	0 Sharkie 'They gathered at the car park in the hour before dawn and waited to be told what to do.' Dio will know! I read this book a week or so ago and liked it so much I started over and am three chapters from the end again.
northernslowcoach Oct 2018 10:19pm, 22 Oct 2018 14,838 posts	0 northernslowcoach Loved that one muchly Hells THE KING STOOD in a pool of blue light, unmoored.
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2018 11:31pm, 22 Oct 2018 3,540 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend “Over the centuries different civilisations have come to understand the value of making and using compost” How to ‘cook’ compost by The National Trust
Diogenes Oct 2018 6:58am, 23 Oct 2018 31,056 posts	0 Diogenes Sharkie is reading “Reservoir 13” by Jon McGregor 😀
McGoohan Oct 2018 7:11am, 23 Oct 2018 36,026 posts	0 McGoohan I’ve not even read the first twelve.
McGoohan Oct 2018 7:12am, 23 Oct 2018 36,027 posts	0 McGoohan I’ll get my coat
Diogenes Oct 2018 7:13am, 23 Oct 2018 31,057 posts	0 Diogenes Which one?
Wriggling Snake Oct 2018 7:51am, 23 Oct 2018 19,775 posts	0 Wriggling Snake In my Grandmother's dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet a piece of skin.