First Line Fridays: "A Tale of Two Hearts"

Happy Friday! It's been a long week, thanks in part to the marathon Cubs game on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning ... which ended (finally!) after 13 innings. It didn't go the way I wanted and ended the Cubs' season. And, while I wish they could've gone all the way (or at least beyond the Wild Card), I'm also kind of relieved ... because I'll be getting WAY more sleep this October than I did the last two Octobers! I've also enjoyed watching some stress-free baseball over the last couple of days, and I'm struck once again just how strange it is that I like baseball. I love the Cubs, but I actually enjoy baseball even when the Cubs aren't involved. I guess people really can change 🤣.

For this week's First Line Fridays, I'm sharing the first line of the book that I'm almost finished reading: A Tale of Two Hearts by Michelle Griep.

London, 1853

In the tiny back courtyard of the Golden Egg Inn, Mina Scott lowered her copy of David Copperfield to her lap and lifted her face to the October sun.

This is the second book in Griep's Once upon a Dickens Christmas series, and I'm enjoying it. I just love Christmas books, don't you? (Also, it feels like Christmas is on the way today, so that helps set the mood!) Now I just need a fire to curl up by while I read ...

Check out the book on Amazon & Goodreads.
Read my review of 12 Days at Bleakly Manor, the first book in the series.

What are you currently reading? Share the first line in the comments, and then head over to Hoarding Books to see what others are sharing! 

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