"At Windsor it was the evening of the state banquet and as the president of France took his place beside Her Majesty, the royal family formed up behind and the procession slowly moved off and through into the Waterloo Chamber."
#TheUncommonReader #AlanBennett #FirstLines #currentlyreading
"'Whew! Finally got those rambunctious youngsters to calm down and go to bed. I had better be responsible and go do my homework while I wait for their parents to get home!' | {RIINNG} | '...hello?' 'I'M OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE'" #Lumberjanes #ATerriblePlan #NoelleStevenson #ShannonWatters #CarolynNowak #MaartaLaiho #BoomBoxStudios #FirstLines
He spoils me. Some girls get flowers. I get books. @Daaave added #ChamberofSecrets to my #illustratededition #HarryPotter collection. #bookishcouples
"The Veil: This is me when I was 10 years old. This was in 1980. And this is a class photo. I'm sitting on the far left so you don't see me. From left to right: Golnaz, Mahshid, Narine, Minna. In 1979 a revolution took place. It was later called 'The Islamic Revolution'." #TheCompletePersepolis #MarjaneSatrapi #FirstLines #GraphicNovel #OurSharedShelf #BookClubRead
"2006 I only wanted one thing on tour: to slam my hand in a door and break my fingers. Then I would go home." #HungerMakesMeAModernGirl #CarrieBrownstein #OurSharedShelf #BookClubRead #FirstLines
"Wolverhampton, April 5, 1988 — Here I am, on my 13th birthday. I am running. I am running from the Yobs." #HowToBeAWoman #CaitlinMoran #OurSharedShelf #FirstLines #BookClubRead
"Wolverhampton, April 5, 1988 — Here I am, on my 13th birthday. I am running. I am running from the Yobs." #HowToBeAWoman #CaitlinMoran #OurSharedShelf #FirstLines #BookClubRead
These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders, and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities and tales worth taking home. #getindie #thelastbookstore
"When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat in his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair in which he was sitting did he, as he puts it 'wake out of the book.'" #ExLibris #AnneFadiman #ConfessionsOfACommonReader #FirstLines
"Late on a hazy night in 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda told me he wanted to write a hip-hop concept album about the life of Alexander Hamilton. For a second I thought we were sharing a drunken joke. We were probably drunk, but he wasn't joking." #HamiltonTheRevolution #LinManuelMiranda #JeremyMcCarter #FirstLines
"The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there." #harrypotter #gobletoffire #jkrowling #firstlines
