Book Beginnings and The Friday 56

Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by  Rose City Reader.  Simply share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading and link up in her linky.  

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice.   

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)
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. 
*It's that simple.

Hell is a two-hour layover in Atlanta.

~Beginning of The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas.

Yes, I am a liar, but there are a couple of things I feel the need to say about that.

~Page 56 of The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas.                                                                                                                            

The Friday 56 (Nov. 14, 2014)

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice. 

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.




For one second Maanik's eyes rolled to meet hers and Caitlin felt raw horror wash down her spine.  She had seen young people trapped in terrible circumstances - held hostage by a parent, pinned by a landslide -  but here she felt as if she were looking at someone who had wakened in a coffin and found herself buried alive.  The girl took an uncertain step and her eyes rolled to the ceiling.  She was still trying to scream.
 *This book was so fascinating!  Enter my giveaway to win it HERE. 



Noise swells from the cryo room, interrupting my dark thoughts.  At first I think it's just the natural volume of fifteen hundred people cramped together in one giant room, but then a voice screams in fury over the sound of all the others.
 

The Friday 56: 2/10/12

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at Freda's Voice.


Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url.

It's that simple.

"The phone had gone dead after only about a minute, but I know the sounds of terror will live in me forever."

~Page 56 of Slide by Jill Hathaway

**Quote taken from ARC and subject to change**

The Friday 56: 1/27/12

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at Freda's Voice.  Go check it out!


Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post in Linky on Freda's site. Add the post url, not your blog url.

It's that simple.

 "And if he couldn't save me then, how can he save me now?" ~pg. 56 of A Million Suns by Beth Revis.

**quote from an ARC and subject to change**

The Friday 56: 4/1/11

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at Freda's Voice!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post in Linky.

It's that simple.

"He had been a beautiful thing to watch - until the blood began to flow, and I had to run out of the room." ~Strings Attached by Judy Blundell

The Friday 56: 3/25/11

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at Freda's Voice. 

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky.

It's that simple.

"The tears coursed down her cheeks - not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets."  page 56 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Friday 56: 2/11/10

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda over at Freda's Voice.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post below in Linky.

It's that simple.
Here's mine:

"Mrs. Morton's pale finger trailed over the picture frames in the hall.  'We trace our family back over three hundred years,' she said.  'Roots are so important, don't you think?'" ~Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane

The Friday 56: 1/21/11

The Friday 56 is a fun meme hosted by Freda's Voice.  Head on over to her site and sign up for some fun!
Rules:*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.

"I went over to rescue her.
'Sorry about this,'  I said as I helped stick a name tag onto her baby blue sweater."  -Rival by Sara Bennett Wealer

**Quoted from an ARC copy.  Subject to change**

The Friday 56: 1/14/11

The Friday 56 is a fun meme hosted by Freda's Voice.  Anyone can play so head over to her site and link up!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.

I'm reading 2 books right now so I will post from both of them.  First:

"She looked around her then and noticed that she had been abandoned by her friends while she'd been sleeping." ~The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

AND:

"I didn't know anyone stood over me, until two hands squeezed my shoulders."  ~Clarity by Kim Harrington (taken from an ARC copy.  Final copy may differ)

The Friday 56: 11/26/10

I'm a little late getting this out but since I was up at 2:00 AM doing the whole "Black Friday" craziness, I just got the motivation now to actually post stuff!  The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice.  The rules are simple and as follows:

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts

"He's good at it,"  Laurel put in.  "I got singed by the heat, and I was fifteen feet away." 

The Friday 56: 11/19/10

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice.  The rules are simple:

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.  So head on over to Freda's Voice and link up!

"Sure enough, after her little toast to me, "it" was suddenly the big white elephant in the big white marble room of the Astor Hall."  ~Don't Blink by James Patterson

The Friday 56: 11/12/10

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda's Voice.  The rules are simple:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

"I know my running off like that had to scare you, and I wish there had been another way."  ~Hourglass by Claudia Gray

The Friday 56: 11/5/10

The Friday 56 is a fun meme hosted by Freda's Voice. 

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

It's that simple.

"They were young when I found them, but I may be losing them as they grow to maturity." ~ Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.

The Friday 56: 10/29/10

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"The brigand's sword withdrew to strike, and Friar Lorenzo sank to his knees in submission, clutching the rosary and waiting for the slash that would cut short his prayer." ~ Juliet by Anne Fortier

The Friday 56: 10/1/10

A fun meme hosted by Storytime with Tonya!

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"We also discovered that we've both memorized the theme song to nearly every sitcom from the past decade."

 

The Friday 56

 

 

The Friday 56 is hosted by Storytime with Tonya :

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

 

 

  "He would have filled the place up.  The tiny kitchen had a miniature table covered with an overscrubbed piece of red oilcloth, an ancient fridge and a stove that looked like it should be in the Brooklyn museum."