First Line Fridays: Jan. 11th 2013

Welcome to another First Line!
This week, more continuation of lovely Jane Austen with Emma:

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."




Now, I haven't actually read this book yet. However it is on my TBR pile And I shall review and link as soon as I've read!

First Line Friday: Jan. 4th 2013 (Happy New Year!)

Hello and welcome one and all to a New Year!
This is the first FLF of 2013!

To continue with the Jane Austen tribute next is the opening from Sense and Sensibility

"The family of Dashwood had long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large , and their residence was at Norland Park, in the center of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance."

First Line Friday: Dec. 28th 2012

Again, I am late, I know.
And, although December hasn't quite finished, I'm bringing my First Line this week from another classic author, Miss Jane Austen.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune MUST be in want of a wife."


So starts the first book I EVER read by Austen. She is an author I will go back to again and again.