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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.

The first few chapters of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry have charmed me. I heard just a little about this book a few years ago, but it was enough to put it on my list, and here we are; I’m going in almost entirely blind, which I often enjoy. Check out these first few lines:

The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday. It was an ordinary morning in mid-April that smelled of clean washing and grass cuttings. Harold Fry sat at the breakfast table, freshly shaved, in a clean shirt and tie, with a slice of toast that he wasn’t eating.

I think this is a fine beginning, setting the scene as it does. Clean washing & grass cuttings are important, as are the fresh shave and the clean shirt and tie. A well-ordered life, clearly. Just wait & see what happens next…

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