First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros

Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where I share the first paragraph or (a few) of a book I am reading or thinking about reading soon. Care to join us?

This week I'm featuring an intro from a book that I'll be starting this week (I hope):

Big Brother; Lionel Shriver

June 4-2013 - Harper

"I have to wonder whether any of the true highlights of my forty some years have had to do with food.  I don't mean celebratory dinners, good fellowship:  I mean salivation, mastication, and peristalsis.  Oddly, for something I do everyday, I can't remember many meals in detail, while it is far easier for me to call up favorite movies, faithful friendships, graduations.  It follows, then, that film, affinity, and education are more important to me than stuffing my face.  Well done, me, you say.  But were I honestly to total the time I have lavished on menu planning, grocery shopping, prep and cooking, table setting, and kitchen cleanup for meal upon mean, food, one way or another, has dwarfed my fondness for Places in the Heart to an incidental footnote; ditto my fondness for any human being, even those whom I profess to love.  I have spent less time thinking about my husband than thinking about lunch.  Throw in the time I also spent ruing indulgence in lemon meringue pies, vowing to skip breakfast tomorrow, and opening the refrigerator/stopping myself from dispatching the leftover pumpkin custard/then shutting it firmly again, and I seem to have concerned myself with little else but food."

What do you think? Would you keep reading or move on to something else?    (I think it's a little rambling, but still feel it is setting the stage for a good story)

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