The Things You Can Read: Book Beginnings on Friday:Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker August 23, 2013

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Friday, August 23, 2013

Book Beginnings on Friday:Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker August 23, 2013

"Roz called to ask me what I wanted for my fifty-fifth birthday. One of her many good qualities is that she remembers people's birthdays." Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel by Nicholson Baker

Summary Courtesy of Goodreads:

A new novel by bestselling author Nicholson Baker reintroduces feckless but hopeful hero Paul Chowder, whose struggle to get his life together is reflected in his steadfast desire to write a pop song, or a protest song, or both at once.

How about that first and second line? As I work on my back log of ARCs

Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel by Nicholson Baker is up next. I look forward to starting this one.

Thanks to Rose City Reader for hosting this event every Friday allowing bloggers to share the first sentence of a book that they are reading and offer some impression of said book!

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