First Line Fridays was begun by Ms. B at Daily Rhythms and has been kept alive by several bloggers who carry on the tradition of recording the first line of a book they are ready to read. Here’s mine from Rachel Caine’s Ink and Bone of The Great Library series:
“Ephemera”
“Text of a historical letter, the original signed of which is kept under glass in The Great Library of Alexandria and listed under the Core Collection.
From the scribe of Pharoah Ptolemy 77 to his most excellent servant, Callimachus, Archivist of The Great Library in the third year of his glorious reign… Pharoah has also heard your words regarding the unaccompanied admission of females to this sacred space (The Great Library) of the Serapeam, and in his divine wisdom refuses this argument, for women must be instructed by the more developed minds of men to ensure they do not wrongly interpret the riches that the library offers. For a perversion of such things is surely worse than the lack of it.”
Oh my, exclusion of women even back then! This is one of several books I am reading within the category of Books About Books. More on this at a later date.
KEEP READING, and share with us your first lines this beautiful, sunny Friday.
powerfulwomenreaders 
T’was ever thus, I’m thinking… Thank you for a great quote, though, Rae:). I haven’t read this series, although I do like the author’s work – are you enjoying it? Sorry for not swinging by recently – I’ve been away on a writing retreat and the internet wasn’t wonderful.
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But how wonderful to go on a retreat–of any kind. The last retreat I went on was a spiritual one, right in my own home. It was successful in that I felt renewed and refreshed afterward. I’m about ready to hold another personal mini-reading-marathon. I need to finish several books I’ve started.
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Oh it was absolutely marvellous! I shall be posting a blog about it, I hope. I managed to get a great deal done and also ate well and exercised as well:))
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