Friday Fun - December 20, 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 Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled by Shannon Messenger.

I just startied A Very Messy Christmas by Dineen Miller.

        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:

  Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled by Shannon Messenger:

"'This is a bad idea.'"

Well, it's Keefe, so yeah, not surprised.

A Very Messy Christmas by Dineen Miller:

"'Yes, Mrs. Sanderson, we have you down as arriving on the fifteeth and that you're staying through New Year's Day.'"

Seems like a normal day at an inn.

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:

Keeper of the Lost Cities: Unraveled by Shannon Messenger:

 

 "So was the next one.
And the one after that.
The art improved from book to book, so clearly the practice was paying off. But Cass had spent a lot of time drawing the same place--which felt like a strange decision, since humans only lived about eighty years."

A Very Messy Christmas by Dineen Miller:

"'I'll see what I can do.' I'm finding her desire to make even her guest's fur babies happy unexpectedly endearing, which intensifies my urge to ask Madi out. But if I don't plan to stay in Sarabella, wouldn't that be unfair to her? I'm one hundred and ten percent positive that if things turned serious, she'd refuse to sell her inn, which I'd never ask her to do. And I must be out of my mind to even have thought like that. We only just met yesterday."

Reviews:

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

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

I Think I Was Murdered by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker