THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN!
Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.
EARLY BIRDS & SLOWPOKES: This weekly post goes up Thursday evening for those who like to get their posts up and linked early on. But feel free to add a link all week.
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TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.
YOUR BOOK BEGINNING
MY BOOK BEGINNING
As True Bliss lay in her bed on the morning of her the eve of her one hundredth birthday, the thought that circled her mind, in the applesauce eddy of her mind, the fist chunk in the applesauce eddy that her mind could sink its teeth into was please don't let this day be my last day on earth.
-- The Remnants by Robert Hill. That's quite a metaphor! Or a mixed metaphor. Her mind is an applesauce eddy with teeth. Eating itself. But I guess if you are a day shy of 100 and just waking up, your thoughts might run to muddled metaphor. We'll see where it goes from here.
The Remnants is the story of a town "peopled with hereditary oddities" preparing to celebrate the the 100th and 99th birthdays of two of its last citizens. Reviewers praise the writing and originality of the story. It was a Powell's Books staff pick.