tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post7975714523539996148..comments2023-08-11T10:32:22.795-04:00Comments on Reading Is My Super Power: Opening fast or slow? Mood?Crystal Lainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09284296811544392777noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-41521987614945430842010-04-14T20:35:49.082-04:002010-04-14T20:35:49.082-04:00These are all great, Christine. Thanks!
Susan, th...These are all great, Christine. Thanks!<br /><br />Susan, that's a good observation. I know Noah Lukeman talks a little about this. Can you give some examples of first lines that hooked you? <br /><br />For every rule there are exceptions, too.Crystal Lainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09284296811544392777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-89584572587742120582010-04-14T17:45:00.438-04:002010-04-14T17:45:00.438-04:00"First the colors.
Then the humans.
That'..."First the colors.<br />Then the humans.<br />That's usually how I see things.<br />Or at least, how I try.<br />HERE IS A SMALL FACT. You are going to die."<br /><br />- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief.<br /><br />Okay, Crystal. Last one, fingers, crossed, I promise. :)Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-26904492379925873342010-04-14T17:43:18.715-04:002010-04-14T17:43:18.715-04:00"Breathe not a word of my visit, Jean."
..."Breathe not a word of my visit, Jean."<br /><br />- Liz Curtis Higgs, Thorn in My HeartChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-60837356448656160392010-04-14T17:43:18.716-04:002010-04-14T17:43:18.716-04:00"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked..."I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God."<br /><br />- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen MeanyChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-36045921015215201622010-04-14T17:43:18.717-04:002010-04-14T17:43:18.717-04:00"Rain fell like tiny silver teardrops from th..."Rain fell like tiny silver teardrops from the tired sky."<br /><br />- Kristin Hannah, On Mystic LakeChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-712297986042440252010-04-14T17:42:52.560-04:002010-04-14T17:42:52.560-04:00"My name is Asher Lev, the Asher Lev, about w..."My name is Asher Lev, the Asher Lev, about whom you have read in the newspapers and magazines, about whom you talk so much at your dinner affairs and cocktail parties, the notorious and legendary Lev of the Brooklyn Crucifixion."<br /><br />- Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher LevChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-78435963872861155272010-04-14T17:41:53.362-04:002010-04-14T17:41:53.362-04:00"Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old a..."Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise."<br /><br />- Sara Donati, Into the WildernessChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-90669541336162995592010-04-14T17:41:18.573-04:002010-04-14T17:41:18.573-04:00Still loving this game. Here's a few more toda...Still loving this game. Here's a few more today.<br /><br />"I planned to be the kind of old Southern lady who talked to her tomato plants and bought sweaters for her cats." - Deborah Smith, A Place to Call HomeChristinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533290326694777502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13980015.post-26392150759226579282010-04-13T21:39:05.578-04:002010-04-13T21:39:05.578-04:00Hi Crystal -
I've heard so much about JSB'...Hi Crystal -<br /><br />I've heard so much about JSB's new book. It's on my Wish List.<br /><br />One thing I noticed about some of your first line examples: adverbs and unusual dialogue tags. These are things I've been taught to avoid. If you have an opportunity, can you address this?<br /><br />Blessings,<br />Susan :)Susan J. Reinhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07461276857852409546noreply@blogger.com