Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Wild Game; Adrienne Brodeur


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. Here's my pick for this week:

Wild Game; Adrienne Brodeur
Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt - 2019

Prologue

A BURIED TRUTH, that's all a lie really is.

Cape Cod is a place where things surface and disappear again: wooden lobster pots, the vertebrae of humpback whales, chunks of frosted glass. One day there's nothing; the next, the cynical forces of nature--erosion, wind, and tide--unearth something that has been there all along. A day later, it's gone.

I love memoirs and have been looking forward to this one.  What do you think?

10 comments:

  1. I'm reading this right now and am having some trouble connecting with it.

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    1. I was wondering if it might be hard to relate to but, I've enjoyed so many memoirs that I couldn't image being - my life. Did you read Smoke Gets in Your Eyes? loved that one.

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  2. I'm not sure from the intro but I would probably read more to find out.

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  3. Oh, yes, now I am intrigued. Loved the descriptions. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.

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  4. That's quite an evocative description - something that would make me want to read further.

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  5. I love the cover and I do like the sound of that first paragraph. It's been awhile since I've read a non-foody memoir so I might have to pick this one up!

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  6. I like the cover too and am intrigued by the bit I read.

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  7. Not a whole lot to go on, but the opening paragraphs did make me curious enough to give it a few more pagers before deciding about it.

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  8. The intro didn't grab me but I'd keep reading hoping it would. I love the setting of the book and the cover.

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  9. I have a copy of this from my Nervous Breakdown Bookclub subscription and I heard the author interviewed on Otherppl. It sounded to me like kind of a creepy story but definitely memoir material. I will get to it eventually.

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