Each Tuesday, Vicki, from I’d Rather Be At The Beach hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros where readers post the opening paragraph(s) of a book that they are reading or plan to read.
PART ONE
A Table Full of Strangers
"In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals. We were living on a street in London called Ruvigny Gardens, and one morning either our mother or our father suggested that after breakfast the family have a talk, and they told us they would be leaving us and going to Singapore for a year. Not too long, they said, but it would not be a brief trip either. We would of course be well cared for in their absence. I remember our father was sitting on one of those uncomfortable iron garden chairs as he broke the news, while our mother, in a summer dress just behind his shoulder, watched how we responded. After a while she took my sister Rachel's hand and held it against her waist as if she could give it warmth."
I normally would have passed on this book at first glance but, this was chosen as our book group read this month. I'm actually enjoying it - beautiful writing.
What do you think - pass or read more?
Anything by this author I will read! a fellow Sri Lankan by origin.
ReplyDeleteHis writing is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing a little about this book. I'm glad you are enjoying it!
ReplyDeleteSounds fairly interesting to me too!
ReplyDeleteWow, now I'm very curious about those parents and what happens next. Thanks for sharing, and here's mine: ”IF YOU ONLY KNEW”
ReplyDeleteSuch a strange and intriguing set-up. I would want to know more.
ReplyDeleteI find the opening intriguing. If that alone isn't enough for me to continue reading, the fact that the author wrote The English Patient seals the deal.
ReplyDeleteI read this and mostly enjoyed it, especially the writing. It works well for a book club discussion.
ReplyDeleteI think I'd keep reading! Sounds interesting...
ReplyDeleteIt sounds a bit odd and I probably would pass it up too. I feel like that about a lot of the books my book club chooses, which is why I love my book club - it gets me to read books that I normally wouldn't. I hope you continue to enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI had such a difficult time with The English Patient. I don't know if I could read this one or not.
ReplyDeleteGo for it. I have heard some have liked the book.
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