It's Tuesday! It's time to share your excerpts and teasers from books we are currently reading, have read or are planning to read. So, feel free to join us by sharing the first paragraph or (a few) of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon. This meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR :)
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I, also, participate and link up to Teaser Tuesdays. Here's info about that meme:
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, now being hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
I'm halfway through this and really enjoying it. The excerpts are from the E-ARC.
First Chapter
Life was good. Until it wasn't.
Teaser...
No one in that golden circle could have predicted the life-shattering day that was on its way. Life was good.
Synopsis from Goodreads:
International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world--a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot--a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake's tragedy was truly an accident after all. As the sun sets in the Land of Living Skies, Hardy and his glamourous, seventy-eight-year-old transgender neighbour find themselves ensnared in multiple murders separated by decades. In Bidulka's love letter to life on the prairies he delivers a story of grief and loss that manages to burst with joy, tenderness and hope. Redolent of his earlier works, Going to Beautiful brings us unexpected, under-represented characters in settings that immediately feel familiar and beloved. Beautiful--a place where what you need may not be what you were looking for.
What do you think? Would you keep reading?
This one sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it might be a good book to keep on hand for when the blahs strike!
ReplyDeleteI loved that quote -- "Life was good. Until it wasn't."
ReplyDeleteand so true isn't it? I hope you enjoy this one Yvonne.
Wow--this one sounds so different, complex, and intense!
ReplyDeleteI would keep reading. Sounds like a wonderful read.
ReplyDeleteHave a fabulous day. Scritches to the kitties. ♥
Oh I love that first sentence! Sounds like an interesting read.
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