So he begins this book by describing his own boyhood fascination with mercury.
Of course it's all relative: Ms. El Feki begins this book taking a long view.
Once I began this book, I couldn't put it down.
Links by Nuruddin Farah 352p, Duckworth, £14.99 I began this book with high expectations.
"I began this book intending to write a history of a still vital form of music," he says.
I began this book almost 30 years ago, in the spring of 1984, while living in West Berlin – still encircled, at that time, by the Berlin Wall.
Mosley began this book well before the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and yet the event shadows every page.
Balakian walked among the displaced for months before he fled, disguising himself variously as a German engineer, a soldier, and a worker in the vineyards; he began this book while in hiding.
"One of the first things I did when I began this book was load in all twenty-eight discs of the three Stax singles box sets onto my computer and my phone, and then hit shuffle," Gordon told me.
