Showing posts with label friday 56. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friday 56. Show all posts

Friday, August 8, 2014

The Friday 56 - Aug 8th 2014 - AmberBug

The Friday 56

Meet The Friday 56, a meme we found on Freda's Voice (another great book blog). The rules are as follows:

Welcome to Week 190!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It's that simple.




Neverhome by Laird Hunt

The outlaws had set our Springfields and cartridge bags by the door to the kitchen and we picked them up. On the way out one of us, might have been me, knocked over the last lit lamp in the house. Instead of putting our boots to the fire we walked on away and let it burn.


*This book is about a woman who leaves her husband to become a soldier in the Civil War.
I actually haven't gotten as far as that quote above, but so far the book is really intriguing. She has managed to fool everyone into believing shes male. I love the male interaction from the under-cover female perspective.


Friday, July 18, 2014

The Friday 56 - July 18th 2014 - Arianna

The Friday 56

Meet The Friday 56, a meme we found on Freda's Voice (another great book blog). The rules are as follows:

Welcome to Week 187!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It's that simple.


"She's as frail and ivory-colored as a comatose princess, slumbering through decades, waiting for the spell to be broken."


(This scene is describing Barrett, one of the main characters, looking in on his sister-in-law as she sleeps, fighting off the cancer that is consuming her.  The book is full of amazing imagery which transfers the reader regularly to fairy tale lands, for the briefest of instants.  Also, wanna know something kind of funny?  I'm on page 156 right now - exactly 100 pages from this spot.  Also weird?  There are exactly 256 pages in this book. If I were a more superstitious person, I'd consider that some sort of sign!)


The Friday 56 - July 18th 2014 - AmberBug

The Friday 56

Meet The Friday 56, a meme we found on Freda's Voice (another great book blog). The rules are as follows:

Welcome to Week 187!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It's that simple.



The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone

By the time I said "Come back home to me," Addison had starved herself.
She looked like a prisoner of war, a skeleton in a T-Shirt.



*The book is all about the death of Addison Stone, getting to the bottom of it. This is done through interviews that include multimedia within the pages (pictures, articles, etc...) I think this is a style that is becoming more popular in fiction and I gobble it up (most of the time it warrants the gobbling, but can also be subject to getting too cliche). So far, this book is really interesting and fun.


Friday, June 13, 2014

The Friday 56 - June 13th 2014 - AmberBug

The Friday 56

Meet The Friday 56, a meme we found on Freda's Voice (another great book blog). The rules are as follows:

Welcome to Week 182!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
 *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It's that simple.


A Sleep and a Forgetting

"You want to be careful, Nannie," her father added, "about people's feelings when you meet them, and afterwards seem not to know them."

"But I do know them, papa," she remonstrated.

"You want to be careful," her father repeated.

"I will - I will indeed." Her lips quivered, and the tears came, which Lanfear had to keep from flowing by what quick turn he could give to something else.

*To give a little explanation, the book is about a Doctor who meets a father & daughter while on vacation. 
The Daughter has a memory problem and forgets people right after she meets them. 
The above is an example and repercussion of that.*

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