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I'll Read What She's Reading

Guess the Book by the First Line

I'll Read What She's Reading

I'll Read What She's Reading

Arts, Books

4.4541 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The friends take on a deceptively simple challenge: guess the book from its very first line. It sounds easy… until it isn’t. In this episode, Reggie, Kennedy, and Mikayla read famous opening lines from books they have collectively read to see if they can name the book before the clues run out. Some are instantly recognizable, others send them spiraling into wild guesses and questionable logic. Play along and see how many you can get before they do! Expect iconic openings, terrible guesses, an...

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0:00.0

Hello, guys. Welcome back to all read what she's reading. I'm Kennedy. I'm Michaela. And I'm Reggie. And today we're playing a very fun game, guessing books based on their first line. We've played this in the past. I can't remember

0:23.6

how long it's been since we've done this. A year? This is a very hard game. And if you missed out on our

0:30.6

last game episode, it's called Bookmarked the Odds, we are doing a competition this year to see who can

0:35.9

win the most of these bookish games and whoever the loser is gets a punishment. Punishment, TBD. Someone did say that the punishment should be, they have to read Credence. So that's an option, but... Some of them were also really, like, terrible. Like, you can't... They hate us.

0:54.9

They want us to suffer.

0:56.0

I don't know.

0:56.4

I'm trying to remember what they were, but some of them was like, whoa, these are harsh punishments.

1:01.9

Punishment TBD.

1:02.9

So there's some stakes in these games this year, okay?

1:06.8

There's going to be some competitiveness.

1:09.2

All right.

1:09.7

If there's a cat fight, I'm just kidding.

1:12.7

But play along with us, see if you can guess what book this first line is from.

1:17.7

They are books that all three of us have read.

1:20.4

So if you follow us on Goodreads, maybe you'll have some clothes.

1:23.9

Who wants to start?

1:24.8

I'm starting a...

1:26.2

Oh, a note.

1:46.8

A note. Yeah. So it's whoever can get the quickest between Michaela and I. Yeah, who I already know I'm going to suck at this game. In past... Didn't win the last one? Okay, I was good at that game. This, every year we've done this, I suck at this. So I feel michaela's going to win this game let's see no let's see okay who's am i going first with the first prompt yeah go with the

1:52.1

okay you get one point if you get it first yeah yeah let's just do one point okay one point for

1:57.5

we'll keep it simple mm-hmm all right i'm nervous i don't like you're like i don't like

2:02.6

i'm not looking i'm not looking either sorry all right here it is today is the 10th anniversary

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