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 finished the novella collection titled, Every Life Treasured featuring three novellas about the value of life by Jennifer Q. Hunt, Hannah Hood Lucero, and Aubrey Reiss Taylor. Last week I had read the first two stories. This week I finished the last story, Born for Adversity by Aubrey Reiss Taylor. This novella collection just released this week.
I'm also starting Across the Ages by Gabrielle Meyer.
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:
Born for Adversity by Aubrey Reiss Taylor, the final story in Every Life Treasured:
"My sister grasps my hair as I heave forward into the basin."
Well, she was either sick, or knowing the kind of story this is, pregnant.
Across the Ages by Gabrielle Meyer:
"My bare toes dug into the hardpacked earth as I beat the rug on the back line, watching the dust melt away into the setting sunlight."
The main thing I noticed was that this book started out different than the first three books of the series.
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:
Born for Adversity by Aubrey Reiss Taylor, the final story in Every Life Treasured:
"'. . . I admit I find him desirable. I'm alone so much, yet I'm afraid that being around him might lead me back to the things that got me here in the first place.' I hesitate, asking myself if there is anything else I need to tell him before closing my confession."
Across the Ages by Gabrielle Meyer:
"'I'm looking for crew members,' Captain Zale said as he walked down from the quarterdeck, scanning Captain Frisk's sailors. 'If you'd like to join my crew, step forward. I run my ship as a democracy, where every man has a vote and a share of the prizes we earn. You will eat like kings and not have to toil for another man's profit.'"
Reviews:
Last week I shared a few books in my Friday Fun post. I shared the link to the one review last week, and I am still working on the review of the other. But here is the review for Danger in the Wilderness by Darlene Turner
