It’s time for another First Lines Friday! Hosted by Wandering Words!! Why do these keep scheduling on big dates?! Again! This one was scheduled in November just like the last one so leave me be hahaha!
What if, instead of judging a book by its cover or its author, we judged the book by its opening lines?
Here is how it works:
– Pick a book and open to the first page.
– Copy the first few lines without revealing which book it is.
– Reveal the book!
So… do these first lines entice you?
Out of the gravel there are peonies growing. They come up through the loose grey pebbles, their buds testing the air like snails’ eyes, then swelling and opening, huge dark-red flowers all shining and glossy like satin. Then they burst and fall to the ground.
Scroll down to reveal the book!
This is a book I picked up from the mini library in the office before I shifted to working from home. I only looked at it cause it was by Atwood and I’ve only read The Handmaid’s Tale and Testaments so I wanted to try out some different books by her. This isn’t the most interesting of first paragraphs but I did skim the first page and mixed with the synopsis that this is about a murderer… I’m interested!
Abi of Pellinor 
The first lines have a very heavy sense of dread – I’m not surprised a murderer is involved!
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They really do, part of me wants to do research into the real life side of things before I read this and part of me wants to go in blind!
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I’ve never read any Margaret Atwood! I always got the sense she was an old-fashioned sounding writer but IDK if that’s true haha
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I quite enjoyed Handmaid’s Tale and didn’t feel that at all with that book, but I’d be able to actually answer a that a little better once I’ve read some more from her haha
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I so want to read this book!! I’ve only read The Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood but I did quite like her writing.
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Fingers crossed we can both get to it sooner rather than later!
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