I used to post a lot of first lines and final lines, but have fallen off since last year. I’m finally accepting that– for me– attempting to update on preset days (see also Poetry Ptuesday, which doesn’t even alliterate for
Excerpt from Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
In 1908, A Harvard philosopher named Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty. Royce was not concerned with the trials of aging. But he was concerned with a puzzle that is fundamental to anyone contemplating
Starting Today: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
I started this yesterday but I heard you can go on the internet and lie 😉 Here are the first lines: “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning,
Final Lines Friday: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Earlier this week I finished Salt Houses, finally. Can y’all believe I started it at the end of March?! Nevertheless, here it is, the final lines: “The song alights within Alia, a remembering akin to joy. Her mother’s garden,
Starting Today: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
I’ve shared snippets of this beautifully written, heartrending, monumental work before. But I’m reading it for the first time in its entirety, and I’m already in stupid love. “Well, you’re not here. Such is the ease with which one can