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.
I am posting early this week -- just because.
Leave a link to your post. If you don't have a blog, but want to participate, please leave a comment with your Book Beginning.
MY BOOK BEGINNING
What follows are twenty-nine nonfiction micro-essays, each one a description of a chance encounter I had with a member (or members) of the fraternity of wildlife that call the pacific Northwest home.-- from the author's Preface to Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 Wildlife Encounters by Charles Finn, published by OSU Press.
"Micro-essays" is a great term and a great format for presenting the flitting, ephemeral encounters Finn writes about in this charming book.
I really like his descriptive opening lines. This sounds like a book I would really enjoy.
ReplyDeleteHappy Memorial Day Weekend!
This sounds like a very interesting book. I hope you enjoy it. I posted this early too, because I was actually up early enough to write it before getting ready for the day.
ReplyDeleteAre micro essays essays about really small things or really small essay about things? XD Thanks for hosting!! Hop on over if you have the time!
ReplyDeleteJuli @ Universe in Words
Great statement to start a book. Since I get up early I like the post being early. Thanks for keeping this meme going.
ReplyDeleteOh that sounds wonderful! Can't wait to read more about it.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteI think I would enjoy these micro essays and I also think my father would. It may be an idea for Father's Day. Thanks!
I like the phrasing 'fraternity of wildlife'...I also like the idea of micro essays. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.
ReplyDeleteI do like the sound of micro essays. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like an interesting read...looking forward to reading your review of it.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!
Kristin @ Always With a Book
I have the same question as Juli: what makes a micro essay micro?
ReplyDeleteI know you took over this meme from another, just as I was passed the torch for The Friday 56. Today while reading blogs, I noticed someone has started a meme just like yours, though the title is different. With all this crap out there about plagiarism, it felt odd to see something so unoriginal. Check it out for yourself and see what you think; http://www.literarymarie.com/2012/05/first-lines-friday_25.html
ReplyDeleteThat book sounds interesting, and it has a great cover. I am enticed by book covers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting this meme. I like stopping and thinking about what I like about the book as I read it.
It does sound like an interesting book and, like TracyK, I love the cover!
ReplyDeleteI'm obssessing about Bring Up the Bodies right now - your meme has allowed me to devote yet another blog post to this wonderful, wonderful book - thank you.
ReplyDeletePS I suspect the word micro-essay has now passed into several bloggers everyday vocabulary :-)
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ReplyDelete"The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other" And so I wondered is this just going to be all gossip & rumour or an insightful look into the modern Presidency.... It was the later.