Our Favorite Novel First Lines

Bad On Paper by Becca Freeman

Aug 5, 202601:04:30Arts

Today we're diving into a topic we've been wanting to cover for a while: first lines in books! We chat about preferences as both a reader and a writer, our own first lines, and play a guessing game to name the book by it...

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