Moodle’s plugin system is, to be kind, a bit stupid.

—me, in an internal document I wrote more as a "note to self" than anything else

#FirstLines

"An unassuming young man was travelling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit."

-- Thomas Mann, *The Magic Mountain*

(welp, I guess I'm reading this now -- reading notes will go here)

#FirstLines #ReadingNotes #NowReading #Bookstodon #ThomasMann #TheMagicMountain

"That very day, I left the orphanage. I packed a knapsack with my clothes. I slid the coins they'd given me into a soft pocket. I looked out at a rusty gate, which was topped with tree branches, and one looked like a wolf's wig."

-- #FirstLines from *Gwenda, Rodney* by Olivia Cronk

https://meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/

(This is the start of my reading notes thread for this book.)

#FirstSentence #ReadingNotes #Poetry #Bookstodon

> I moved to stand edge on and watched the ten-foot hole we found flatten and disappear—which terrified me, you see, since I could already feel the insubstantial hole drawing in the cool sea air.

Can I write 100 first lines sparked by a visual?

https://nachofy.substack.com/p/first-lines

#FirstLines #WritingExercise

"Of course I didn't kill myself."

-Daša Drndić, 'EEG,' tr. Celia Hawkesworth

#books #literature #firstlines

"I came to the Palace because the man I sought kept a room there."

-Justin Torres, "Blackouts"

#firstlines #books #literature

Best #firstlines from books that never were...

(Your turn)