Friday Fun - October 10, 2025

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'm reading an eARC of Wasted by Jerusha Agen. This is the second book in her Windy City Westons series, each one featuring one of the Weston siblings. This book releases on October 23rd. 

I'm also the newest book in A.M. Heath's Christmas in Garland series, Journey to Christmas. This book releases October 20th.

        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:

Wasted by Jerusha Agen:

"'What do you want?'"

I needed to know who was talking to who and what exactly was going on, especially without knowing the tone and situation.

Journey to Christmas by A.M. Heath:

"'You're kidding, right?' I stared at my older brother, but he didn't crack a smile."

Hmm, seems like something serious could be going on. But what?

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:

Wasted by Jerusha Agen:

 

"'So you didn't have to follow me home.' She gave him a teasing smile.

'I don't know.' He met her gaze with a daring twinkle in his eyes. 'My bark might be as impressive as his. I know my bite is.'

'Well, he's never bitten anyone, and he rarely barks, so you might have something there.'

'He doesn't bark?'

She shook her head. 'Hardly ever. I'd only heard him bark once in his life until three nights ago.'

Cillian's brows dipped low over his eyes.

Oh, goodness. What had she stepped into now?"

Journey to Christmas by A.M. Heath:

"The woman somehow still had tears to spare and spent several more minutes crying them out all over my soaked shirt. The fact that she was walking around with that much dispensable fluid is actually kinda remarkable."

Reviews:

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

Every Life Treasured by Jennifer Q. Hunt, Hannah Hood Lucero, and Aubrey Reiss Taylor

Across the Ages by Gabrielle Meyer

Last week I mentioned I had to set a couple of books aside, but I have since finished one of them. Here is my review of  For a Lifetime by Gabrielle Meyer.