Thursday, September 1, 2016

Book Begininng: We are All Completely Beside Ourselves



THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN!

Please join me every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author’s name.

EARLY BIRDS & SLOWPOKES: This weekly post goes up Thursday evening for those who like to get their posts up and linked early on. But feel free to add a link all week.

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TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.

YOUR BOOK BEGINNING



MY BOOK BEGINNING



So the middle of my story comes in the winter of 1996.

-- We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. This provocative novel about a family that tried to twin a chimp with a child won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2014.

I like the sidelong reference to the classic rule of starting a story in medias res.

8 comments :

  1. I've been wanting to read this book!

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  2. I loved this book - my daughter read it first, and she recommended it to me. It's wonderfully original.

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  3. I think I would have been in second grade back in 1996... :)

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  4. This is the first time I've seen this book - never heard of it before - will have to check out more info about it. Interesting choice.

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  5. My Book Club read that one before I joined and they had very mix feeling about it. I still like the premises though and believe I still want to read it. Did you enjoy Froelich's Ladder? Here's my Friday Meets:http://marelithalkink.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/friday-meets-another-one-down-drain.html

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  6. Great job...you have made me curious. :-)
    sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes

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  7. This one is intriguing! It's been on my TBR for awhile.

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  8. The title grabbed me, and the book's beginning made me want to know more. I'm curious about how a family could "twin" a chimp with a child!
    Thank you for hosting Book Beginnings.
    Sandy @ TEXAS TWANG

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