Friday Fun - May 24, 2024

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 read The Garden Girls by Jessica R. Patch.

I am reading The Esther Paradigm by Sarah Monzon for a couple of my May challenges. 

        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 C arrie for First Line Friday.)

Here are my Book Beginnings/First Line Friday selections:

  The Garden Girls by Jessica R. Patch:

"Sharp claws scrape along my neck."

I was like, what?? What is going on? I was wondering at first if she was dreaming.

The Esther Paradigm by Sarah Monzon:

"Hannah Pratt stared out across the grainy hills as the wind blew a gentle kiss over the crest."

Seems like it was relaxing. 

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:

The Garden Girls by Jessica R. Patch:
 

"'Who is this?'
'Someone who knows far more about you than you think you know about me. I'm looking at your son right now. Kinda looks like you. Oh yes, I know you have a son. I know all kinds of things, and I'm going to use them to my advantage. I'm not nearly as stupid as you suspect. Bye for now. But see you soon.'"

The Esther Paradigm by Sarah Monzon:

"Had anyone's life changed so much in three days? Three days! That was all it had been since I'd said goodbye to my friends at the international airport in Atlanta, dreams in my head of teaching and longing in my heart to reunite with my family.
Three days. Hmm. Maybe I should be thankful I wasn't in the belly of a big stinky fish. Okay. Jonah still held the trophy for worst trifecta of all time."

Reviews:

Last week I shared three books in my Friday Fun post. Here are my reviews for two of them. I am still reading The Crown Conspiracy by Connie Mann.

Justice Delayed by Sarah Hamaker 

A Cry in the Dark by Jessica R. Patch