Ah…..Friday.Such a nice word. Makes me want to clean out some bookshelves. So here's thegame. Match the first line with the book it's from, post your answers in thecomments. (Can you cheat? Sure!)
Authors agonize over first lines. Well, first paragraphs, first scenes, middle scenes, last scenes...we agonize over everything. But especially that opening line. It should make us readers want to keep reading. So below are opening lines from seven YA novels. Some bestsellers, some that maybe...
Published on November 04, 2011 06:30