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Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this meme. To participate, share the first line or two of the book you are currently reading and, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line.

Do we all know who Joe Hill is now? The secret is out, correct? I’m kidding; the secret’s been out for years. Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son. I’m a King fan, but it took this recent article to convince me to get some of Hill’s work. And I’m glad I did; this recent novel started out with a bang and had me excited right off the first page. It begins:

Nurse Thornton dropped into the long-term care ward a little before eight with a hot bag of blood for Charlie Manx.

She was coasting on autopilot, her thoughts not on her work.

Nothing crash-bang in those first two lines; but we do get our first reference to blood. And it only gets creepier from there, in the most delicious way.

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