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Hey Booktube! Time for more book recommendations... based on gripping first sentences!
What less popular book to you think we should read based on the first line?
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@Nana-mg1vh 3 года назад

oh look, you finally have the physical copy of the midnight library with the cover you've always wanted!

@Jojojozilla 3 года назад

"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size. For Sister Thorn of the Sweet Mercy convent Lano Tacsis brought two hundred men." Red Sister - Mark Lawrence

@monamoon3256 3 года назад

Oh I love that series desperately but didn't remember it hat such a good first line, thank you for that!

@niki_bbb 3 года назад

My favourite one is Seveneves: The Moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.

@lillatfm 3 года назад

The first line in The stranger by Albert Camus has stuck with me ever since I read it 7 years ago, ”My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.” I can’t think of any other first lines that I’ve read that I remember as clearly as this one!

@michellesmirnova4471 3 года назад

I read this book in its original language to practice my French a bit and I really do agree! It sets the tone for the book very well, some of the times that our main character was being uncaring about things had me laughing, even though it’s not supposed to be funny, that ain’t a bad thing tho pfft

@laurenharrison1258 3 года назад

"Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king." - "The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson is one of my all time favorites.

@aoi6075 3 года назад

One of the best 🖤

@CharroArgentino 3 года назад

Also "Ash fell from the sky" - Mistborn, and "It's funny how many things begin with my getting thrown into prison" from Warbreaker; Sanderson in general has great first lines.

@mariamironova3095 3 года назад

i really expected "to be taught if fortunate" to be in this video lol

@peachh6084 3 года назад

I always go back to Nevernight’s, “People often sh*t themselves when they die”. It may not be the prettiest or best first line I’ve ever read, but it sure is memorable lol It also sets the tone for the rest of the book and if that first line offends the reader, they can just stop there (before *SPOILER ALERT* anyone casually loses their limbs while training 😳😆hehe)

@bicho6313 3 года назад

I was waiting for you to say, "Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things." The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

@christinacampbellbooks 3 года назад

Definitely want to read this book! What a great opening.

@bicho6313 3 года назад

@@christinacampbellbooks i know right? How can u not keep reading? It gets even better after that

@danielle3308 3 года назад

I love "Our dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley." --Uprooted & "They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will." --The Shadows Between Us

@af8604 3 года назад

Hey Emily! On the Thumbnail, when you first open the video, there's a typo---it says "FIRTS"---just wanted you to know!

@Mucgum1 3 года назад

I first thought it said catchy flirt lines xD

@estercamilacarneiro 3 года назад

@@Mucgum1 me too hahaha! I thought wow emily is giving us some original booktube content hahahaha

@BookswithEmilyFox 3 года назад

That reminds of my that tag I did which you guys gave me on twitter pages to choose from and one question was about how I would flirt and it said something like "that thing's big" XD

@thJune-ze7dn 3 года назад

My fav. opening line - "It was the day my grandmother exploded." - The Crow Road by Iain Banks

@mayralex18 3 года назад

as in she went booom!!! or she finally reached her limit?!!!!

@thJune-ze7dn 3 года назад

@@mayralex18 She went boom

@CharroArgentino 3 года назад

It wouldn't be a great line if she didn't literally explode. Cheating your reader is a big no.

@aashishbhattarai9991 3 года назад

The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

@jessr771 3 года назад

Magpie Murders-by Anthony Horowitz : There was going to be a funeral. And if course The Martian: I'm pretty much f***ed.

@donna3967 3 года назад

‘In the year of our lord 1894, I became an outlaw.’ Saw that first line of Outlawed by Anna North and had to read the book!

@cecirapalini 3 года назад

Call me by yor name: "Later", one word, one expresion, one attitude

@leireurritza6579 3 года назад

"As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe" -Mr G.

@leireurritza6579 3 года назад

Mr G, by Alan Lightman

@booknerd3172 3 года назад

The first line of Alice Sebold's novel Almost Moon is, “When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily.” And how can you not pick up the book after something like that.

@darkestwingz 3 года назад

I used to (and probably will again) do this thing on my book blog where I posted a cool first line of a book every friday. I wonder if I should make a video like this for my booktube channel too... Thanks for the inspiration lol

@ScullyPop 3 года назад

Now this is a little different. I love the format today.

@ornellaghandour4926 3 года назад

" I am going to tell you a story you already know. But listen carefully because within it is one you have never heard before" Kingdom of back - Marie Lu

@caburg93 3 года назад

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were." My mom quoted this to me so often that I memorized it, too :) It is the only first line I can recite. (Gone With the Wind)

@anushkasharma7088 3 года назад

Okay I love this concept, gosh we could do blind date with a book thing like this

@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm 3 года назад

LITTLE EMILY IS A BUNNY AWH! oooo I’ve never read practical magic, but the movie is soooOooOoO good 😩

@pennPi 3 года назад

My favorite witch books are “Of sorrow and such” and “Circe”. Same, love a good witch book.

@nr6764 3 года назад

I think you included To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers in your first catchy first lines video and that was one of the best books I’ve ever read 🥺🥺. Can’t wait to check some of these out!!

@winvillogy4287 3 года назад

Hi Emily been watching your videos since quarantine. Have you read the ring-sworn trilogy? The third book's coming out this August

@tiakivla 3 года назад

For Kindred, I’d also suggest reading the graphic novel version. It was only published a few years ago, so long after Octavia Butler’s death, but it’s an excellent adaptation. I think there’s a graphic novel adaptation of one or two of her other books, as well.

@elskuperus4393 3 года назад

The audiobooks of the Murderbot series are great too.

@ethalinia 3 года назад

The name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss! "The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence in three parts," SO GOOD

@daltonsnyder2519 3 года назад

"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest, they take their time." Toni Morrison, Paradise.

@weronikaryfka3088 3 года назад

The landing site on Mars was just named after Octavia Butler :)

@Amanda-dn4ld 3 года назад

I ADORE Behind Her Eyes (which I definitely read because of you) and watched the show with my husband who hadn't read the book. I think it was really good and actually set up the "second twist" better than the book.

@peachykeenchy8194 3 года назад

i don’t remember anything about this book other than the first line, but in my middle school everyone in my class read a book from the library solely based on the fact that the first sentence was “purple condoms.” and that’s when i realized the value of opening lines lmao

@cassieloud7240 3 года назад

Oh yes ❤ i did not know how much i needed this video

@lisalajmo597 3 года назад

Have you read “We Ride Upon Sticks?” Basically a field hockey team of witches!

@MyMizukiBis 3 года назад

It's a great book 😍

@nikkilewen9861 3 года назад

Another great job. I’m amazed at how much content you put out!

@martynabrewczyk3023 3 года назад

I loved "Magic lessons" 💕

@catwithwifi10 3 года назад

God, that public shaming book reminds me of that one chick who said libraries were outdated and when she received like, the lightest of critique, she doubled down and then said she really related to that book because she too had been public shamed.

@nicoleg1062 3 года назад

Oh yay, you got the pretty cover of The Midnight Library!

@andrewannotates 3 года назад

How about we are the ants? “Life is bullshit.”

@teresaharris-travelbybooks5564 3 года назад

My two favorites: Today is the first day of November, and so today, someone will die- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, and : In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

@RadioGirLF 3 года назад

That's my favorite edition of The Midnight Library 😍

@renf9191 3 года назад

one min ago 😳😳 im so hyped for book recs :DDD

@SofieFieJohansson 3 года назад

Great video! Id love to see a comparison of Behind her eyes!

@chrish4991 3 года назад

I love murderbot too!

@wiskerlikestoread4594 3 года назад

12:35 PM. The phone rings. I am not amused- Metropolitan Life- Fran Lebowitz

@m_bot7566 3 года назад

The gothic opening of the dark but fascinating story Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts trapped me on sight. "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

@KristinKravesBooks 3 года назад

I love a good first line! So many of the books you talked about are ones that I loved. Magic Lessons was one of the best books I read last year, so would be curious to see what you think!

@Imaginetheday1967 3 года назад

I read Kindred last year. It had been on my shelf for years, but I was kind of scared to read it. I finally read it for a book challenge that had the prompt of "great first line". I was so made at myself for waiting. It's hard to read, but such a fantastic book. Octavia Butler is amazing.

@camilasanches2274 3 года назад

The best opener is Epitf of a Small winner or the Memórias postumas Dr Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis. If you haven't read it, you should is amazing

@dolangueando 3 года назад

"All this happened, more or less." from Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

@jenniferjones2863 3 года назад

Enrico Fermi was a very colorful character in history. He was a physicist and his lab had many women in it who picked up expressions from him without knowing what they meant. These nice young ladies were swearing like sailors in Italian. :-) I believe that he was also the one who said that the state of European physics had gotten so bad that "...an experimental physicist couldn't add a column of figures and a theoretical physicist couldn't tie his own shoe laces.

@elizabethheitzman5173 3 года назад

When reading the Nigtagale I would recommend that you pick up the audiobook it's very well done and you can't through it in a pinch.

@nooraalmazrooei3364 3 года назад

"Before she became the Girl from Nowhere - the One Who Walked In, the First and Last Only, who lived a thousand years - she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy." The Passage for Justin Cronin.i remember I buy this book just because of those lines and read the whole trilogy.

@justinecooper9575 3 года назад

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. - Neuromancer by William Gibson.

@sukinahal-taleb6539 3 года назад

First sentence in Skipping a Beat “When I died for the first time” I bought it immediately 😁 and then I became A Sarah Pikkanen fan

@angelawesneski5029 3 года назад

Blood like Magic is a YA witch book coming out soon. The author has a RU-vid channel and I really enjoy her content, so that one is definitely on my TBR!

@najmidanial7375 3 года назад

you finally managed to get a copy of the midnight library

@katietatey 3 года назад

These are great! I love a good first sentence. :)

@Sari.T.N 3 года назад

Have you read A Discovery of Witches (trilogy) ? I think people either LOVE it or HATE it. I loved it. This was a great video ... I just LOVE great first lines ... 🤪🙃❣️

@ostrichreads7715 3 года назад

Such a cool video idea! For myself I have noticed that often when the first sentence is amazing the follow up tends to disappoint me :(

@bookishpothos7649 3 года назад

I don't remember if you ever did one but have you got any plans for a Best Last Lines video? (though I guess it might be kinda spoilerish content)

@heatherbailey5446 3 года назад

The Vine Witch series by Luanne g Smith. It is a good quick-read series. Romance and witches is a great combo.

@onceuponabookishsteph 3 года назад

I want to read Kindred! I have heard really good things!

@BreakfastAtFabianas 3 года назад

Nevernight still has my fav and best opening book line IMO ⚔️

@corinaradu9771 3 года назад

I also like books about witches. Do you have a recomandation video for those?

@starfast5545 3 года назад

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford has a great one: "On second thought, throwing myself out the window of a skyscraper may not have been the best idea" But I also love the opening line to The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee: "I have just taken an overly large bite of iced bun when Callum slices his finger off."

@Clara-vn4lk 3 года назад

Matt Haig books always make me so happy although, still I havent read the midnight library though..soon. I know I am in the minority but I didnt like the nightingale, thought it was full of cliché about France + a lot of historical mistakes.. but I would say the Book is entertaining so I get why people like it

@badfaith4u 3 года назад

A Discovery of Witches was fun to read and it is a part of the All Souls trilogy.

@elena-mariaboni 3 года назад

You might like The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

@orcocan 3 года назад

have you watched behind her eyes on netflix? what did you think?

@Tessy31 3 года назад

She said she's watched episode 1.

@lamegoldfish6736 3 года назад

"Space Opera" kinda makes me think of "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". It might have that fun quirky humor. 😃

@darcieeastham9347 3 года назад

Oh it does! It's like Hitchhiker's does Eurovision! I loved it 😁

@MoinJoey 3 года назад

Omg I still can't decide if I loved or hated Behind Her Eyes. Its been years that I read it and I can still remember it so well, which I usually don't. I recently watched it remotely with a friend just to catch their reaction at the ending. But the affair part made it almost unwatchwable for me.

@amelie3036 3 года назад

A first sentence I really enjoy is from The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer (yes, that SMeyer): “Today’s errand had become a routine for the woman who currently called herself Chris Taylor.”

@CharroArgentino 3 года назад

"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault." - Dresden Files.

@JV-hh8lp 3 года назад

Great video! I'm surprised To be taught, if fortunate is not here 🤔

@Aliwishes789 3 года назад

Nobody asked but I just wanted to recommend the series Tales from the Loop on amazon prime video. I just finished this sci fi series and my heart is both full and breaking at the same time. Sci fi and contemplative series lovers should check it out. :)

@sundaygirl8962 3 года назад

Give ‘Witchborn’ by Nicholas Bowling a try

@thebookishpanda6992 3 года назад

One first sentance that cracked me up was from a romance novel called Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon. " Honey, you need to get laid." I laughed so hard, and was hooked. ( very steamy romance.)

@Schizoid137 3 года назад

Snow globe Emily looks cute with her rabbit ears :)

@leapruneau4640 3 года назад

Salut! J'espère que tu vas bien. Je me demandais où tu as trouvé ta copie hardcover de The Midnight Library? Je le cherche partout, mais je n'arrive pas à le trouver... merci beaucoup pour ton aide 😊

@annaeshelman6371 3 года назад

Salut! Cette copie hardcover de The Midnight Library est la version des États-Unis! Je suis desolée, mon français n'est pas parfait.

@melissabereading 3 года назад

There’s a typo in your thumbnail!

@CharroArgentino 3 года назад

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - The restaurant at the end of the universe.

@reginad91 3 года назад

No to be taught if fortunate? 😱

@tetzelleprizes 3 года назад

Catherynne M Valente's range tho

@Yohannai 3 года назад

Its funny, looking through my shelves it seems like none of my favorite books have incredible first lines, but many have interesting first paragraphs...

@christinacampbellbooks 3 года назад

Absolutely loved The Midnight Library. My favourite book of 2021 so far! :)

@justinecooper9575 3 года назад

It was a pleasure to burn. - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

@alf.2929 3 года назад

Don't ever read "The Witches of Eastwick." Hated that f'ing book.

@katietatey 3 года назад

How come?

@alf.2929 3 года назад

@@katietatey I was pretty young when I read it & don't remember everything I hated about it but it left an awful taste in my mouth. If you go to GR, & read all the 1 and 2 star reviews, it pretty much encapsulate my disdain for the book and pretty much a lot of people shared my perception of the writing.

@katietatey 3 года назад

@@alf.2929 I am a big Updike fan but I find a lot of people hate him so I'm always curious to hear what people think. Witches wasn't a favorite of mine though.

@justinecooper9575 3 года назад

I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. - At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

@sofiaseema61 3 года назад

You have a “complicated relationship” with basically every book.

@Jenbebookish 3 года назад

Welllllll lots of books & the feelings they evoke aren’t just cut and dry, black or white. Plenty are somewhere in between :) I imagine that’s about what she means when she says she has a complicated relationship with books.