Book Beginning: The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN!

MY BOOK BEGINNING

By the time I reached the cemetery on its bluff south of town, the fog had disappeared and the beginnings of sunrise were lighting up the horizon.

The Mountains of Paris: How Awe and Wonder Rewrote My Life by David Oates, from OSU Press. This new memoir explores how living in Paris made the author "revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance." I'm all for that kind of transformation!

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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YOUR BOOK BEGINNING




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.

MY FRIDAY 56

To breath here is to arise, in all simplicity, to that higher register. To be present with mystery, to allow it.