Friday Fun - June 14, 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 am reading Because of You by Hannah Currie.

I also just started reading an ARC of Coal Black Lies by Cindy K Sproles as a member of the launch team. This.book releases next Tuesday.

        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:

  Because of You by Hannah Currie:

"This would be the summer that changed my life forever."

Well, that sounds like it could be a positive start to this book.Anticipation. Unless life is going to change in a bad way. 

Coal Black Lies by Cindy K. Sproles:

"I stood rubbing the cool gun barrel over the stubble on my jaw."

For some reason my first thought went to some scruffy looking outlaw looking all menacing. But then I thought it could be more depressing, like someone was contemplating using the gun on themselves. 

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:

Because of You by Hannah Currie:
 

"Later, I promised the paths, as if they could hear my adventure-loving heart. I meandered back along the one path I knew, following the sound of women chatting to where Robin and Emily were sorting the food they'd purchased during our unexpected bus detour. If there was any semblance of organization to the process, I couldn't tell at first glance."

Coal Black Lies by Cindy K. Sproles:

"Manny mounted his horse. 'I'll keep my ears open for anything out of the ordinary. If I stay gone much longer, they'll suspect something. You'll be back end of the week?'
'If all goes well.' I nodded.
'I'll meet up with you then. Until then, I'm your eyes and ears on the inside.' Manny shook my hand. 'I wish I could travel with you.'
'Just keep things under your hat. Barton can't know what's going on. And. . . ' I paused.."

Reviews:

Last week I shared two books in my Friday Fun post. I didn't get my reviews posted for them yet, I'm actually not finished the one, but here is my review for The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron. 

The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron