Another fun summarizing meme, that I first saw last year from Melanie at Indextrious Reader and now have seen there and with Kiirstin at A Book a Week as well. Post the first line from each month of the past year.
I’ll post the first three months of this year, which took place at That Other Place where I no longer have my blog. But fortunately, next year it will all be lines from this blog, which is much better situated and in my own more rational control.
January – I heard a song this morning called “Hemingway,” by the Canadian “north country” /blues band, Porkbelly Futures.
February – Good day, and happy Sunday!
March – A shout-out to my American readers about a book giveaway from St. Martin’s Press.
April – Today’s Wondrous Words are brought to you by the letter “K,” and by the books The Secret, The Know-it-All, and A Golden Age.
May – Did you know that it’s Buy Indie Day today?
June – Immoral, first published in 2005 by the Minotaur imprint of St. Martin’s Press, was Brian Freeman’s first novel, though that barely shows in a rough edge or two.
July – Pierre Elliott Trudeau by Nino Ricci is another volume in the excellent Extraordinary Canadians series edited by John Ralston Saul.
August – The most profound moment at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit came, for me, in the very last display case.
September – This has to be one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever seen.
October – Trying to catch up and get busy here again!
November – I was so glad to read this today, from the Sci Fi Wire website: ‘Gandalf’ has read the Hobbit script and tells us about it.
December – Yes everyone, it’s time for “Canada Reads” once again.
Very eclectic, yes? I like that it isn’t all just book reviews, and that there are other things than books talked about here. But still related to books — after all, the Dead Sea Scrolls were books, as is the Hobbit.
We’ll see if I can range farther afield next year. Tomorrow. 
Happy New Year!
Heh, I love April’s first line. Sesame Street rocks!
Happy new year to you!
Ohhh, September is fantastic! I want that for all year long, heh.
No kidding! I still think the best one is Kiirstin’s, over at the A Book A Week blog, which starts in January with “Oh, bliss.”
Hey, why does my image in the previous comment make me sad? I want a smiley one!
Hee! I wish I could control that. I’d love to create my own set of images and stick them in instead. I should check the controls of this WordPress theme to see if I can do that somehow. You can actually go to Gravatar to get, well, a Gravatar that follows you around the Net and appears beside any comments you make on blogs etc. I finally got one, though it took a while for it to “take.” (It’s the same one I use on Twitter.) But that’s how you see people making comments here and having their own chosen avatars beside their posts.
Of course, I see that my own Gravatar isn’t working here right now. I think it either needs me to be logged into the email addresses I associate with it — or this is the one place it doesn’t seem to work. Hm.
Your first lines are divine, and your September opening has piqued my curiosity. I, too, borrowed this meme from Kate, who got it from Melanie.
Thanks for stopping by, Suko. Lots of fun, isn’t it? And by the way, I am always happy to meet someone who knows how to use (and spell!) the word “piqued.”