"But what I craved about the ambulance was the excitement, the difficulty, the unknown, the risk. Here, in a book, I found something I’d thought I would never find: an ambition."
When I read memoirs, I look for something that I can latch onto, and the above quote was that. The author seems very self-aware of how his passions came to be, and that tells me early on that this book will be an insightful character study. Furthermore, the colloquial manner in which the author describes his beginnings is very easy to get into; I have a feeling that it will provide a good balance of entertainment and feels, and that's what I look for in my books.
When I read memoirs, I look for something that I can latch onto, and the above quote was that. The author seems very self-aware of how his passions came to be, and that tells me early on that this book will be an insightful character study. Furthermore, the colloquial manner in which the author describes his beginnings is very easy to get into; I have a feeling that it will provide a good balance of entertainment and feels, and that's what I look for in my books.