It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:
- Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.
- The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
Today I'm featuring:
Beginning: When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, LEO GURSKY IS SURVIVED BY AN APARTMENT FULL OF S**T. I'm surprised I haven't been buried alive.
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Page 56: "At the end of the letter I would add something about my mother being single."
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From Goodreads: Leo Gursky taps his
radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still
alive. But it wasn t always like this: in the Polish village of his
youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. . . . Sixty years later and
half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a
character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and
save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power,
Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of
extraordinary depth and beauty (Newsday)."
Enjoy life with books . . .
Catherine
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