Book Beginnings and the Friday 56: Delirium

Both excerpts are taken from Delirium by Lauren Oliver.

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Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you’re reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence.

It has been sixty-four years since the president and
the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since
the scientists perfected a cure.

I gotta tell you, this book is AWESOME! It’s scheduled for release early next year (I think), and I will be purchasing a finished copy! VERY GOOD! And this sentence is great. The entire first paragraph, actually, is one of the best opening paragraphs EVER! In case you’re curious, here it is:

It has been sixty-four years since the president and
the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since
the scientists perfected a cure. Everyone else in my family has had
the procedure already. My older sister, Rachel, has been disease free for nine years now. She’s been safe from love for so long, she says she can’t even remember its symptoms. I’m scheduled to have my procedure in exactly ninety-five days,on September 3. My birthday.

The first time I read my paragraph, I thought, “Wow! Amazing. I’m hooked already!”

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This is fun meme hosted at Storytime with Tonya.

Rules:

* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
* Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Blackness eats the edges of my vision, and all I can see is the chain-link fence that rises up in front of us suddenly, blocking our path, and then I’m reaching out and thwacking it so hard it begins to shake, turning around to yell, “I won!” as Hana pulls up a second behind me, gasping for breath. Both of us are laughing now, hiccuping and taking huge gulping breaths of air as we pace around in circles, trying to walk it off.

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