It’s time to play “guess that book” and also watch our TBRs weep.
“First Line Fridays” is by Hoarding Books and is all about the first line of a current/upcoming read. Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda’s Voice, where you turn to page 56 (or 56%) in what you’re reading a find a snippet that jumps out at you.
First Lines
56% Snippet
Book Reveal
A hilarious, entertaining, and illuminating compendium of the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in America—from mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holes—written and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account.
Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can become—or may already be—a federal criminal.
Whether you’re a criminal defense lawyer or just a self-taught expert in outrageous offenses, How to Become a Federal Criminal is your wonderfully weird window into a criminally overlooked sector of American government.
Reasons to Read
✿ It’s non-fiction for a change. Isn’t that novel?
✿ Your parents always told you to get a good career.
✿ If you don’t get caught, you didn’t do it.
✿ Always plead the Fifth.
✿ Well, the more you know …
His writing sort of reminds me of Bill Bryson, another fantastic non fiction writer😁
I don’t think I’ve read any Bill Bryson, but I’ll have to look him up! These are the sorts of nonfiction I love reading. Factual, yet entertaining.
Bill Bryson is a MUST read, you’d love him. Start with A Walk in the Woods!
Adding it to my TBR! I’ll check tonight and see if my library has it. :3
Over on my blog, I am sharing 4-fabulous first lines from the just-released-today new book, The Highlanders (A Smitten Historical Romance Collection). Do stop by and check it out! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Happy Friday!
Today on my blog I’m sharing the first line from Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano:https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/11/14/first-line-friday-110/. It’s SO good. I’m currently on chapter 17, so I’ll share the first line from there.
“Can’t thank you enough, Reginald, for insisting on accompanying Poppy and me as we search for that peddler,” Murray said from the far side of the sleigh, staunchly ignoring the frown Poppy, who was squished in between Reginald and Murray, was sending him.
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 🙂❤📖
Haha — I like the sounds of this book!
I’ve only just started it, but it’s a super fun read. Lawmakers be crazy. xD
This sounds really funny! Mailing a mongoose… LOL
It seems so random, right? Makes me wonder how many mongooses (…mongeece?) were being mailed to be that much of an issue. xD
Right? Sometimes the history of these weird laws are even more interesting. (But sometimes they’re perfectly boring. So it’s hard to know which ones to research.)
On my blog, I’m sharing Riona by Linda Windsor. Here, I will share the first line in Chapter 26 of my current read, A Defense of Honor by Kristi Ann Hunter. “Kit was anxious as she waited for Jess to return from London, jumping every time the wind blew a bit too loudly around the corner of the house or whenever a child closed a door with a bit too much force.” Have a wonderful weekend!
What a funny Friday 56 quote. Made me laugh. My Friday quotes
Thanks! I’m really enjoying the humor in this book. 🙂
Sounds like a cheeky, factual read! I’d pick it up, for sure! Happy weekend!
Happy Friday! Today I’m sharing the first line from the prologue of One More River to Cross by Jane Kirkpatrick: “Mary Sullivan stood outside the circle of men, watched through the triangle of elbows as they nodded and commented about the markings the Paiute drew in the dirt.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/11/first-line-fridays-one-more-river-to.html
I think I’m going to have to add this to my tbr. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me
I haven’t finished it, so I can’t say for sure, but so far, I’d recommend it!
Happy Friday! My first line is from “Because of You” by Becky Wade:
“Maddie Winslow met the man of her dreams the same day that her friend Olivia introduced Maddie to her new boyfriend. Which would have been splendid, except that the man of Maddie’s dreams was Olivia’s new boyfriend.”
This sounds like such a fun read! I don’t think I’ve ever cut the tag off my mattress . . . I hope you are loving this one. Have a great weekend.
I honestly don’t think I ever have, either, because I just throw sheets on that bad boy soon as I get it home and never think about it again until I have to, like, turn it. xD
This week on my blog I shared the first line from Heart of a Royal by Hannah Currie. It’s also my current read so I’ll share the first line from chapter 22 here: “The reception had been going on for hours–and no one seemed in any rush to end it.” Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
That book about being a criminal cracks me up, I will have to look for it at my library!
I hope you can find it!
I’m surprised I guessed the book but I had seen this one on your page a few times already and it just clicked reading those first lines! Haha 😂 my memory isn’t half so bad sometimes (mostly when I don’t really need it to be LOL)
Ahahaha I’m so glad you were able to guess it. xD I also feel like I’ve mentioned this so much and haven’t actually read it yet, soooo … oops?