Friday Fun - November 1, 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 started an ARC of Dragonfly Ashes by C.C. Warrens, the second book in her Cherry Creek Mysteries series. This book will release on November 2nd.

I'm also reading Sookie's Silence by Marisa Masterson for a reading challenge.

        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:

  Dragonfly Ashes by C.C. Warrens:

"A shrill sound pierced the night, sweeping through the house like the unearthly wail of a banshee."

Living next to the firehall in our town, my first thought was wondering if it was the fire siren. But then I wondered if it was someone screaming, as the author had used the word "wail." I needed to keep reading to find out what was going on. C.C. Warrens definitely grabbed my attention from the first line.

Sookie's Silence by Marisa Masterson:

"The baby sobbed in her bed." 

I needed to know what was wrong with the baby. 

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:

Dragonfly Ashes by C.C. Warrens:

 

"'That is not how the Emory family fixes houses, young lady. We do not cut corners with super glue, hot glue, or that abominable substance known as duct tape.'"

Sookie's Silence by Marisa Masterson:

"Sookie tapped his arm lightly and pointed to her sister. When he looked to Wren and then back at her sister, the older one ducked her head and made a muffled sound near Letty's ear. As far as he could hear, the odd rasping had no actual words to it. Still, the little girl reponded well, relaxing into the crook of his fiancee's arm."

Reviews:

Last week I shared two books in my Friday Fun post. Here are the links to the reviews:

Christmas in the Cascades by Marissa Adams, April Kidwell, Marline Williams, Chris Daniel, and Cali Black

Never Forgotten by Hannah Linder