Tuesday Intros/Teaser

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea every Tuesday. To participate share the opening paragraph or two of a book you've decided to read based on that paragraph. Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"I was thinking about food. Stuck in traffic, it's what I do. What any normal person does, of course, but now that I thought about it, I hadn't had anything to eat since seven o'clock this morning, about ten hours ago. A Laddz song came on the radio - the second time that day, how about that for bad luck? - and as the maudlin, syrupy harmonies filled the car, I had a brief but powerful urge to drive into a pole. There was a petrol station coming up on the left, the red sign of refreshment hanging invitingly in the sky. I could extricate myself from this gridlock and go in a buy a donut. But the donuts they sold in those places were as tasteless as the sponges you find at the bottom of the ocean - I'd be better off just washing myself with one. Besides, a swarm of huge black vultures was circling over the petrol pumps and they were kind of putting me off. No, I decided, I'd hang on and - Wait a minute! Vultures? In a city? At a petrol station? I took a second look and they weren't vultures. Just seagulls. Ordinary Irish seagulls. Then I thought. Ah no, not again."

The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.