pagesofjulia

Thanks to Katy at A Few More Pages for hosting this meme. To participate: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. Include the title and the author so we know what you’re reading. Then, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line, and let us know if you liked or did not like the sentence. (You might also consider visiting the original post where you can link to your own book beginning.)

Okay, so it’s not on the loooooooong list of TBR’s I made you suffer through last night. 😛 I just needed something to get me through a few spare moments til I could get home and on the road, where my TBRs await. I chose The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island, yum!) because it’s a whopping 78 pages – just what I needed.

So, here’s your book beginning!

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.

It takes a moment to get into this sort of semicolon-laden prose but I do enjoy it. Good fun, and I shall finish it before the sun goes down and get on to those TBRs. 🙂 Happy travels to me, and happy weekends and whatnots and whatevers to you, adieu.

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