The first lines of TCL Friday No. 10 for May 9, 2025! – Blog to review the book “The Chocolate Lady”

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers, which was originally hosted by Emma @ (apparently, already non -existent) wandering words (not click on the link, is no longer there). However, the lovely Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower makes not only a similar weekly meme, she is also hosting a weekly Link Party Let’s go with him! So if you decide to do one of them yourself, you may want to join her Link Party!

I’ve seen this in several blogs over the years, and as you can see, some of my fellow bloggers still do it in different formats. I have no book review for today (and even DNF to tell you about), so I’m joining. I will continue to use the original format whose prerequisite was (and I guess it is still):

What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or our prestige, we judged it by his Opening lines? To participate, you just have to do three things:

• Select a book from your shelf (may be your current reading, one you have read for a long time or one on your TBR) and open on the first page
• Copy the first few lines but still don’t give anything else for the book – you must first hang the reader
• Finally … reveal the book!

Just, right? So, without additional adoration …

Here are the opening paragraphs …

One

Louise is a teenager, the best kind of person. The evidence of this is very simple: young children believe that teens are the best people, and teens think that teens are the best people, the only people who do not think teens are the best people are adults. Which is obvious because adults are the youngest kind of people.

This is one of the last days before Easter. Very soon, Louise will be discarded from an auction for art for vandalizing a valuable picture. The old ladies will scream and the police will come and it is not really planned. Don’t boast, but Louise had a perfect plan, it wasn’t the plan of the plan that she didn’t stick to him. Because sometimes Louisa is a genius, but sometimes she is not a genius and the problem is that genius and non-ganis share the brain. But the plan? Perfect.

Do these first lines intrigue you? (I admit they intrigued me despite the slight sound of this book.)

Goodreads has this blur:

Most people don’t even notice them – three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louise, the artist herself, knows another and is determined to discover the history of these three mysterious figures.

Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home life by spending their days mixing and telling stories at the harbor. There is a joir who never gives way to battle; a quiet and book ted that mourns his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for a long time; Finally, he is the artist, a boy who stores sleep pills and diverts attention, but who has an exceptional gift that may be his ticket for a better life. These four lost souls find each other for each morning, a reason to dream.

As of this summer, a transcendent work of art appears, a picture that will unexpectedly be placed in Louisa’s eighteen -year care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this will, she embarks on a surprise journey to learn the story of how the picture appeared. The closer it comes to the birthplace of the picture, the more it feels forced to unleash its own artistic spirit, but the happy endings do not always take the form we expect in this fresh will for the transformative power of friendship and art.

So? Do you want to know what book this is? If so please scroll down to find out …

Did you guess this is “my friends”, the most novel of the incredible Fredrik Backman? Personally, I will read something from a backman, and although I was hoping and prayed that I would get the rainbow for this one, unfortunately, they had never passed for me (his previous publicist offered me his books – sigh). So, since it was released on May 6, I decided to order a copy in print. Depending on when it arrives and how long it takes me to finish this new book by Rachel Joyce, which I read, this may be my next imprint (despite what I said in the Wednesday post)!

Did you read it? If so, would you recommend it? If not, would you like to read from what you just read?

Published
May 9, 2025May 5, 2025