Over the past two weeks, while I was admittedly a tad bit obsessed with Mockingjay, I was also trying to read Ann Packer’s The Dive from Clausen’s Pier for one of the book clubs I nominally belong to. Alas, it was not meant to be. I can’t tell you what the book is about. I [...]
Category Archive — beginnings
"Once upon a time…"
Over at Soul Pancake, they’ve got a great post under their “Challenge – Life’s Big Lists” section. They ask readers to list five possible opening lines / paragraphs for an imagined autobiography. I had a lot of fun with mine, so I’m going to share with you, bookworms! Here are the five opening lines I [...]
Beginnings
Now that we’ve started a new year, I’ve been thinking a lot about beginnings. Beginnings are great in many ways because they’re filled with possibilities. Anything can happen at the beginning and this is especially true with books. A really good beginning to a book will hook you right away and compel you to keep [...]
