First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #41

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

This week I'm featuring the opening paragraph from The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes, which I recently borrowed from the library.

   

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St. Peronne

October 1916

I was dreaming of food.  Crisp baguettes, the flesh of the bread a virginal white, still steaming from the oven, and ripe cheese, its borders creeping toward the edge of the plate.  Grapes and plums, stacked high in bowls, dusky and fragrant, their scent filling the air.  I was about to reach out and take one, when my sister stopped me.  "Get off," I murmured.  "I'm hungry."

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?  The description of the food in this opening scene has me craving my own wedge of brie and loaf of French bread. 

I've read and enjoyed two of Jojo Moyes's previous novels, The Last Letter from Your Lover and Me Before You.  These stories have made her one of my favorite authors, and I am looking forward to beginning this novel in the next few days.

What are you reading?

Enjoy life with books . . .

Catherine

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #41 was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com.  This post cannot be republished without attribution.

 

Waiting on Wednesday: New Jojo Moyes Novel

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about a forthcoming book with other readers.
 

This week's anticipated book:

 

The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

Publication date: 8/20/2013

 Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books

 Preorder now from online and brick and mortar bookstores  

From barnesandnoble.com:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, a spellbinding love story of two women separated by a century but united in their determination to fight for what they love most. 

Jojo Moyes’s bestseller, Me Before You, catapulted her to wide critical acclaim and has struck a chord with readers everywhere. “Hopelessly and hopefully romantic” (Chicago Tribune), Moyes returns with another irresistible heartbreaker that asks, “Whatever happened to the girl you left behind?”

France, 1916:  Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Edouard’s portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer’s dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything—her family, her reputation, and her life—to see her husband again.

Almost a century later, Sophie’s portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. A chance encounter reveals the painting’s true worth, and a battle begins for who its legitimate owner is—putting Liv’s belief in what is right to the ultimate test.

Like Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key, The Girl You Left Behind is a breathtaking story of love, loss, and sacrifice told with Moyes’s signature ability to capture our hearts with every turn of the page.

Enjoy life with books . . .

 

Catherine
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