Friday Fun - December 8, 2023

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

This week I have two books to share with you.

I am currently reading When Love Comes by Penny Zeller. This is the third book in her Wyoming Sunrise series and it just released this past Tuesday. Stay tuned for my review.

I am also reading an ARC Bidding on a Second Chance by Emily Conrad. I am on the launch team for this book, plus it works for one of my reading challenges. This book releases next week. So, stay tuned for my review.

        Book Beginnings on Friday     

(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.)

and

First Line Friday

(Please join Carrie for First Line Friday.)

Here are my Book Beginnings/First Line Friday selections:

  When Love Comes by Penny Zeller:

"Ma was right."

Now don't all mothers want to hear this? 

Bidding on a Second Chance by Emily Conrad:

"The moment Graham Lockhart glanced at his phone, all his experience navigating crises failed him."

Hmm, is someone calling that he doesn't want to speak to? Or did he receive bad news in a text or something?

Now for:

The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is normally hosted over at Freda's Voice. But Anne from My Head is Full of Books is taking over for a while. 

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.

When Love Comes by Penny Zeller:
 

"Charlotte peered over at Aunt Myrtle and Aunt Fern who stood not far from Quimby with a sheet of stationery in Aunt Myrtle's hand. The two carried on a conversation and pointed toward the audience. ' They are extremely suspicious,' said Charlotte."

Bidding on a Second Chance by Emily Conrad:

"Her heart soared like the basketball had a moment ago but then fell short. She'd be a fool to think a single basket was a sign God was about to turn her life around."

Reviews:

Last week I shared three books in my Friday Fun post. If you'd like to read the reviews of those books, I invite you to click on the links below. 

Dreams of the Heart by Penny Zeller

The Shunning by Beverly Lewis

The Hart of Christmas by Latisha Sexton

Also, I hadn't finished The Metropolitan Affair by Jocelyn Green in order to write a review, but you can now read my review for that book.