Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this meme. To participate, share the first line or two of the book you are currently reading and, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line.
Here’s an odd little nonfiction mashup, if I can say that, by an odd Texas personality. It is subtitled, “a ‘walk’ in Austin,” and it begins:
Time, they say, changes the river. Time changes the city, too. Over the years, many people have helped Austin to shine in the spotlight, bask in the limelight, and skinny-dip in the moonlight.
Welcome to Austin, Texas, which has birthed the Republic of Texas, Janis Joplin (okay, she was born in Orange, but Austin helped bring her up), Willie Nelson, and (shudder) George W. Bush. Kinky Friedman is an appropriately eccentric guide. What are you reading this weekend?
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I want to visit Austin someday.
Me too! We don’t get up there often enough and it’s only a couple hours away.
This sounds like an intriguing book. Hope you are enjoying it!
Here’s my Book Beginnings Post.
Austin is an interesting city and the book sounds like it will do it justice. Here is my post: Book Beginnings
I would like this one, I think. I read a similar book about Washington, DC by Christopher Buckley. I wonder if it is part of the same series.
Thanks for taking part in Book Beginnings!
There may be such a series, but this isn’t part of one; it’s just another one-off weird item from Kinky.