Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is a Freebie!

Hello Readers! Happy Banned Books Week! Last year I enjoyed reading a banned book during this week, but this year I couldn’t find the time to squeeze one in. Although, I have been reading books that feature witches, so I’m sure they have been or will be banned somewhere. 😉 You can check out my banned books week themed TTT post Banned Books With The Best Adaptations from last year if you’re looking for a way to commemorate it!

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I came up with the idea for today’s prompt from Macmillan’s newsletter Booked Up All Night. They have a feature called “Second life, Second lines” and I’m always intrigued by the second lines they feature. I’ve previously done a TTT post Opening Lines From Books On My TBR Shelf that I enjoyed creating, so I thought it would be fun to find second lines from books on my TBR shelf. Using different books, of course. 😉

Let’s see what I’ve picked! (In no particular order.)

(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)

1

In the Woods by Tana French

“This is none of Ireland’s subtle seasons mixed for a connoisseur’s palate, watercolor nuances within a pinch-sized range of cloud and soft rain; this is summer full-throated and extravagant in a hot pure silkscreen blue.”

2

Naked by David Sedaris

“It’s important to have clean money—not new, but well-maintained.”

3

The Anatomical Shape of My Heart by Jenn Bennett

“It was almost midnight, and for the better part of an hour I’d been clutching my art portfolio and what was left of my pride at the university hospital Muni stop alongside a handful of premed students, an elderly Chinese woman wielding an umbrella like a weapon, a chatty panhandler named Will (who lived in the hospital parking garage), and an enthusiastic drunk street preacher who either wanted to warn us about a fiery apocalypse or sell us ringside tickets—maybe both.”

4

Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno

“Once upon a lifetime ago a pregnant woman escaped Cuba with her husband by climbing into a boat he had built in secret with nothing but scrap and desperate hope.”

5

Circe by Madeline Miller

“They called me nymph, assuming I would be like my mother and aunts and thousand cousins.”

6

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Mónica in a wreath of liquid copper.”

7

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

“Sweep me up.”

8

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

“That was a long time ago—more than three decades—but just now, as she lay in bed listening to a winter storm raging outside, it seemed like yesterday.”

9

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

“By all rights, I should not have lived this long.”

10

The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

“I used to imagine that the wooden table we sat around during Kramer’s Shakespeare seminar our senior year was as old as Columbia—that it had been in that room since 1754, edges worn smooth by centuries of students like us, which of course couldn’t be true.”

Have you read any of these books? Are they sitting on your bookshelf, too? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!