Friday Fun - October 21, 2022

Welcome to my Friday Fun post. This is where I share with two different book parties that post on Fridays: Book Beginnings on Fridays and the Friday 56.

This week I have two books to share with you. 

I read The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans for one of my monthly challenges. I needed a book set in South America. This is a story of two friends who go to Peru as a part of a humanitarian expedition and they get to not only help out in different areas, but they get to explore different sites as well. While there Christine, whose fiancé called off the wedding a week before the date, meets Paul, who oversees am orphanage and has also left the states after dealing with some life-changing events.

I also read A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin for another of my monthly challenges. I needed a book that takes place during World War II, and I loved some other books I have read by Sarah Sundin, so I thought I would try another series. I absolutely loved this story too.

                                                                                                                                                                     

Book Beginnings on Fridays

(Please join Gilion Dumas for Book Beginnings every Friday to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name.)

Here is my book beginnings for The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans:

"Going to the jungle wasn't my idea. Had the thought actually crossed my mind, I would have immediately relegated it to that crowded portion of my brain where things I should do someday but thankfully never will are safely locked away to languish and die."

I will have to agree with this. LOL.

And here is my book beginnings for A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin:

"One whole delicious week together. Allie Miller clung to her best friend's promise and to the train ticket that would deliver it."

Yay, sounds like a highly anticipated adventure.

Now for:

The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is hosted over at 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.

Here are my Friday 56 selections.

The Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans:
 

"'This is a list of things that you must do before December second. I suggest that you do not put them off. Especially anything concerning your passport.'
'Look, Chris,' Jessica said, 'lists. You love lists.'

'Shut up,' she said."

A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin:

"How did a man who didn't drink, gamble, or chase women have a bad night on the town? 'Do I dare ask what happened?'"