FIRST LINE FRIDAY
Happy Friday & welcome to First Line Friday hosted at Reading is my Superpower! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m delighted to feature the first line of the book I am currently reading, Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee.
339 pages Tyndale Fiction publisher October 3, 2023 publication date
Isn’t that a beautiful Fall cover?
ABOUT THE BOOK
Forever within the memories of my heart.
Always remember, you are perfectly loved.
Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health, the bond between the childless midwife and the motherless teen grows strong. But soon Songbird is forced to make a heartbreaking decision that will tear this little family apart.
Thirty years later, the day after his father’s funeral, Walker Wylie is stunned to learn he was adopted as an infant. The famous country singer enlists the help of adoption advocate Reese Chandler in the hopes of learning why he was abandoned by his birth parents. With the only clue he has in hand, Walker and Reese head deep into the Appalachian Mountains to track down Bertie Jenkins, the midwife who holds the secrets to Walker’s past.
For fans of historical and Southern fiction comes a poignant story of love and sacrifice set in the heart of Appalachia, from award-winning author Michelle Shocklee.
FIRST LINE(S)
Appalachian Mountains
North Carolina
Feb 1,1943
My heart thumped hard beneath Mama’s thin coat while I waited for Amos at our secret place. Holes from the chinking in the old trapper’s cabin let in frigid mountain air, with another storm brewing by the looks of heavy gray clouds in the sky, but I couldn’t leave for Tennessee tomorrow without seeing Amos one last time. Tears blurred my vision.
This book is really good so far and I expect that to continue. I’d love to see the first line(s) of a book you’re reading.
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I posted this on Reading is my superpower and sorry I didn’t make a post and couldn’t figure out how to link my blog! This is the same genre as this book and is what I would like to do as a dream which is running a book mobile! Technically, I got this book during the pandemic as a subscription to the Book of the Month club like I said I have stacks of books. The Giver of the Stars: a novel by Jojo Moyes! Here is the first lines since I am going to give more this week!
Prologue
December 20, 1937
Listen. Three miles deep in the forest just below Arnott’s Ridge, and you’re in silence so dense it’s like you’re wading through it.
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Wonderful first lines Deanne.
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It’s heartwrenching but heartwarming at the same time, Sandy. I’m hoping to finish today.
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It sounds like a wonderful book and the first lines were very interesting. The book that happens to be closest to me is a children’s book called Belle and Chloe, reflections in the mirror by Isabella Sardas. The first line is “Belle and Chloe, twin sisters, loved to play with each other: They did almost everything together.”
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I can tell from those few lines that the author is an amazing writer.
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Yes, this book is amazing!
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Happy Saturday!
I’m currently reading Of Shadow and Gold by Michelle Griep. It is so good!
“It felt wrong to leave like this, which was frustrating.”
I hope you are having an excellent weekend so far. Happy reading! 🙂❤️📚
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I want to read this now!
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Currently reading Daddy Long Legs by: Jean Webster. I love how it’s mainly letters. “It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”
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Wow
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