Friday Fun - June 30, 2023

Welcome to my Friday Fun post. This is where I share with two different book parties that post on Fridays: Book Beginnings on Fridays and the Friday 56.

This week I have two books to share with you. 

I read Timeless Treasure by MaryLu Tyndall. I needed a book with a body of water on the cover for one of my reading challenges this month. This was a great dual-timeline pirate story filled with danger, suspense, love, and faith.

       

I am currently reading the newest book by Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart, a Texas Ever After book. It is a western story based on Snow White, and I am absolutely loving it so far. It is also for one of my June reading challenges, a book with a fairy tale trope. 

              Book Beginnings on Fridays

(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.)

Here is my Book Beginnings for Timeless Treasure by MaryLu Tyndall:

"Lexie Cain was completely and utterly alone in the world."

 

How sad. Depressing. I wanted to know why she was all alone.

And here is my Book Beginnings for Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer:

"'Keep your eyes down and head bowed,' Edith instructed. 'Do nothing to draw attention."

Sounded like she was some sort of servant or slave.

Now for:

The Friday 56

The Friday 56 is hosted over at Freda's Voice.

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.

Timeless Treasure by MaryLu Tyndall:
 

"Halting, she stared up at him. Wind tossed her ivory bangs across her forehead, and she brushed them away. 'I don't care. When I see a woman. . . a mother, it doesn't matter. My mom an I were homeless for a while, and I'm going to do all I can to help other women in that same situation. If she scammed me, that's on her.'"

Fairest of Heart by Karen Witemeyer:

"Titus had forgotten how good it felt to sleep in a bed that wasn't attached to a saloon. Doc's spare room might smell like liniment and old socks, but it was blessedly void of the ruckus spawned by piano music, dancing girls, and drunken cowboys that could plague a fellow into the wee hours of the morning."