First Line Fridays #1

I’ve been looking for new things to post on my blog to inspire me in creating different styles of posts. I just often find I have lots of ideas but actually setting them down into complete posts is so difficult. Do you find that?

I need to set aside a full weekend soon to get some things written and scheduled.

First Line Fridays is a feature I’ve seen on your blogs, and it looks fun as well as simple, which is ideal for me at the moment.

Here’s how it works:

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
• Finally… reveal the book!

So here goes:

“It’s not that I never think about Paul. He comes to me occasionally before I’m fully awake, though I never remember what he said, or what I did or didn’t do to him. In my mind, the kid just plops down into my lap.”

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A few questions immediately occurred to me upon reading these lines for the first time:

• Who’s ‘speaking’?
• Who is Paul?
• Why is the narrator dreaming of him?

What do you think? Do you recognise these lines?

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Some clues about the book that belongs to these first lines:

• The UK paperback cover is blue.
• The writer’s initials are E. F.
• It was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize in 2017.

Any ideas yet?

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Here it is:

Have you read this book?

Would you read it based on the first lines?

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What are the first lines of your current read or a recent read? Leave a comment and I’ll try to guess the book!

Thanks for reading!