Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where I share the first paragraph or (2) of a book I am reading or thinking about reading soon. Care to join us? Feel free to grab the image and link your post below.
This week I'm featuring an intro from :The Black Isle, by Sandi Tan
Hachette - July 2012
PART ONEThe Haunted
" Anyone who has lived as long as I have, and who has done the things I have, knows there will come a reckoning. Mine announced its arrival quietly--in a library, no less.
Every Saturday, like a faithful grave-tender, I would go to visit a certain book at the Archive of Wartime Affairs. The book was part of my private curriculum--my research, if you will--not that I ever had to worry about secrecy. This being 2010, the Archive, perched atop a crumbling billiards parlor, is little known and even less loved."
What do you think ? -- Would you keep reading? (I have not started this one yet - but am thinking about it - I liked the intro)
Please feel free to link below:
The cover doesn't attract me but that first para is good - and it mentions a library!
ReplyDeleteI am definitely curious...it all seems so mysterious. Thanks for sharing....
ReplyDeleteFunny, I like the cover. Sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteIs the Black Isle a part of Scotland? Looks like another good historical novel.
ReplyDeleteI do like that intro and would keep reading.
ReplyDeleteMine is here.
I'm not sure about the intro, but I like the cover, so I would read a little further. I hardly every put down a book, once I have started it. I hope you keep reading and will let us know what you think.
ReplyDeleteThe intro has made me curious, so I'd keep reading. I'm not crazy about the cover either.
ReplyDeleteAlways the search for a book to love. Hope this one does it for you. Here's Mine
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I definitely would, especially because of that first quote. It sets up so much, I think.
ReplyDeleteI would definitly keep reading this book. Had you only posted the opening quote I would have shoted Yes! It's too good and too loaded with mystery to pass up!
ReplyDeleteGreat choice, Diane!
Oh, I LOVE that cover. The way the young woman's hair floats to the side, hovering over the still water...
ReplyDeleteand the idea of the archive perched atop a crumbling billiard hall calls me in. I'm wondering what things they've done; very mysterious.
I'd keep on reading. I like that a book is mentioned right away.
ReplyDeleteI need to give this meme a try! Maybe "mix" it with my own Tuesday meme, RRT. :)
A very good beginning to a story. There's just enough unknown there that I'm curious enough to keep going.
ReplyDeleteYes, it has me curious too!
ReplyDeleteI need to know more!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds so mysterious. I want to read it!
ReplyDeleteYes, I would keep reading. There's a mystery beginning to develop and I am already wondering what it is.
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