Stuck-in-a-Book’s 2014 in first lines

This lovely annual meme is all over the place again, and I can’t resist. Essentially, it means copying the first line from the first post of each month, as a nice (if perhaps aleatory) overview of the year… Go ahead; do it yourself! (And click on the links to go to the original posts.)

January
Happy new year! For those not in the know – my plan in 2014 is to read a book for every year from 1914-2013, review them, and put the links on this page.

February
This has been my jam this week:

March
Do you ever just go and look along your bookshelves, reminding yourself of the exciting and interesting books you’ve been meaning to read?

April
Thanks for all your lovely messages yesterday – it now feels mean to make you wait a week before unveiling the Shiny New Books magazine properly, but if you follow us on Twitter we’re giving a few teasers from reviews and features.

May
Another month, another cold… and I still haven’t written properly about the book that got me through the last cold.

June
One of the types of books I most love are those incidental, silly-humour books from between the world wars.

July
Six months in, let’s assess where I am with A Century of Books.

August
We’re changing contracts with our internet provider, and so won’t have internet for a week or so… which means I’m going on an enforced blogging break!

September
Another book review to point you to in Shiny New Books! This one is by an author I’d love to know more about – Sybille Bedford.

October
And now I’m going to do this records, since I obviously couldn’t resist!

November
As I’m sure you all know, November is NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month.

December
A quick post to announce that we’ve uploaded the Shiny New Books Christmas update – over 30 new reviews and features!

8 thoughts on “Stuck-in-a-Book’s 2014 in first lines

  • December 7, 2014 at 4:35 pm
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    Had to look up 'aleatory' ! Such fun – love this meme and love your February in particular. I did it earlier in the week, once I'd got my first December post in.

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  • December 8, 2014 at 7:57 am
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    I must have a go at this – however, my first post every month is usually my State of the TBR one, so I might have to get a bit creative. We'll see …

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  • December 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm
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    February made me laugh…apologies for taking pleasure at what must have been a 'sticky' time.

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  • December 8, 2014 at 10:26 pm
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    Haven't blogged enough this year to be able to do this (in fact, I've hardly blocked at all)… But I'm enjoying reading other people's!.

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  • December 8, 2014 at 10:30 pm
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    PS: I do like the Shiny New Books – how can I have been absent for so long and missed that!. I was only going to take a short break.

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  • December 9, 2014 at 12:32 pm
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    I was trying to do mine but it's remarkably boring… Love reading other people's though!

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