Teaser Tuesday #80 – False Starts by Ken La Salle @KenLaSalle

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of booksandabeat.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read. Open to a random page. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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Ken La Salle is an amazing author that dips his feet into many genres.

I have enjoyed everything I have read by him, so to get a glimpse into what makes him tick is an opportunity I can’t pass up.

Are you ready to take a blast to the past…The 1970’s coming up.

False Starts: Mistakes & Missteps Growing Up In The 70s

Amazon  /  Goodreads

MY TEASE

When I heard a song on the radio I didn’t understand, I would walk right up to my mom and demand an answer.

“What is ‘one toke over the line’ Mom?”

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I will be reviewing False Starts by Ken La Salle on 11.7.16, so be sure and stop in to check it out.

GOODREADS BLURB:  I recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words:

“It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s.”

And I grew up right there in the middle of it. I won talent shows. I went to camp. I fought the school bully for the honor of the girl I loved. I lost my father…

But having just turned 50, I decided the time had come to take an honest look at those years without the tinted lens of nostalgia, which allowed me to remember so much more. I never told the girl I defended that I loved her. I barely survived camp. No amount of talent show victories brought my father back and, to be honest, my memories weren’t as accurate as I thought they were.

The 70’s were a swirling minefield filled with a family destroyed by poverty and divorce, horrible TV shows, bad disco on AM radio, wretched food… and the only saving grace a child like me had was Pong. My teachers tried to put me on drugs. My sister taught me the art of shoplifting. My best friend was Burp Boy. Life was a series of constant set-backs, a barrage of defeats, embarrassments, and false starts.
And I wouldn’t change a thing.

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13 thoughts on “Teaser Tuesday #80 – False Starts by Ken La Salle @KenLaSalle

    • No. This is my second book of his that is non fiction, but he writes of a chocolate chip cookies with herpes, a zombie island, romance….and I am still working on reading more.

    • Sherry’s right on this one!
      I have about 30 titles available, with 17 produced as audiobooks (available on Audible/iTunes). I cover so many genres I think there’s something out there for just about anyone.
      That said, I’ve written more than my share of memoirs. A Grand Canyon talks about my years fighting depression. The Day We Said Goodbye covers the passing of my father and the events surrounding that. Climbing Maya tells of my struggle to find the meaning of success. And that’s just the start.
      Thank you for your kind words and I hope you find something you enjoy! 🙂

    • Stick around, Lauren.
      Though I talked quite a bit about the 90’s (the events in my life if not the pop culture), I don’t doubt that the coming years will see a follow-up to False Starts. After all, that was when I was in high school! (Nuff said!)

  1. Thank you for that! I’m another one who tends to prefer fiction and anything weird or quirky tends to attract my attention… I’ll have a look through Ken’s book catalogue.

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