Books for Company: First lines

28.6.11

First lines - New weekly post!

I mentioned last week how l am taking a break from Paperback vs Hardback and if this new weekly post goes down well l will be swapping between the two. Mainly l will be doing PB vs HB for 2ish months and then First Lines for 2ish months and so on.

What is First Lines?

First lines is a post where l will list two books and type out the first few lines of both the blurb and the first page.

I came to think of this after not being sure whether to buy two books and after reading the first few lines decided to do so. I feel the first lines are so important.

What is the point of First Lines?

Well l hope to help you find new books you may not have heard of or interest you in books you may not have been interested in before.

Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

First few lines of :

Blurb

I think back on things that happened. And I think about how if you were to tell stories about us, about our family, you might raise your eyebrows and you might say, 'Well, no wonder.' I bet you can pinpoint where it started for her.

Read the rest of the blurb here

Or visit the goodreads page for a different blurb

First Page

These are the things you think when you come home to discover your sister has starved herself to death and you have to drop to your knees to revive her :

1. My sister is flat like a board. There's fat guys in the locker room with bigger books than she has.

2. When l scream my sister's name into her face, l can hear my father's voice in my own.

3. Where is it you're supposed to press? In the middle, on the side? Left or right?

My thoughts :

This blurb doesn't really give much away about the book at all and l found this a big plus and it really worked with this book. I found myself opening the first page and reading the first few lines and wanting to carry on reading.

What do you think about the first page and blurb?

Please note, most of these are typed up by myself so there may be small errors.

This week l am only doing one book because of having to explain at the top of this post about this new weekly post but next week l will be doing two.

If you don't like this post l won't carry on with it!

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