This week we're looking at autobiographies. What lines would grip your attention and make you want to find out more about the writer's life?

I was born on 15th July 1945.

I hit him, full in the face. I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't stop myself. That was my first, and last, day at school.

My grandmother was an assassin. Not a very good one, which might explain a few things.

Compose your own first lines, drawing on experiences you've had, which would make a reader want to read on.

I can't find what I want.

I want a simple online book group with discussion forum for children aged 11-16, where we can get together to discuss books we read in common.

If one doesn't exist, or there are none recommended to me that are useful, I'm setting one up.

I don't want it tied to a publisher. I don't want it on Facebook. I don't want it promoting National Curriculum attainment targets. I don't want it aimed at parents. I don't want it to be patronising. I don't want the interface gadget-driven, noisy, or filled with pointless buttons. And I don't want ads.

Is there anything already out there, before I re-invent the wheel?

What makes you laugh? Your job this week is to talk about comedy.

(And I did say you had to know the Muppets. Here's the Swedish chef, Rowlf the dog, and Beaker, who is routinely electrocuted.)

Think of a moment when you were day dreaming, dozing, or falling in and out of sleep.

Did you 'lose yourself' for a time? Could you explain what the feeling was like, or say what you were thinking during that 'lost moment'?

Could you transform your memory into a poem? Here's one we read this week.

I dreamt; and in my dream
I was a butterfly.
I woke, or is it simply
That, weary of the sky,
Some butterfly is sleeping
And dreams that it is I?

- Chuang Chou