It's Friday

Thank goodness it's Friday! I am looking forward to relaxing a bit this weekend. Maybe.

Here is my contribution to Book Beginnings on Friday hosted at Rose City Reader. This book is a follow up to The Postmistress which I read a couple of months ago:

20 June 1873 Maiden's Creek Victoria

"Out of the way, woman!"

And for Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice

As he talked, Eliza realised that the currents of social tension that flowed beneath the fabric of Maiden's Creek were no different from those in any small community and she had better watch her sharp tongue, or she risked alienating every woman in town by the following Sunday.

It's a dramatic beginning as someone is nearly collided into by a runaway horse!

It's Friday!

I thought I might start participating in a couple of weekly memes on Friday just for a bit of fun. I will therefore be moving my Alphabet 2020 posts to Thursdays from now on.

Let's start with Book Beginnings on Friday which is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reads. The idea is to share the first sentence or two of your current read and share your thoughts

Earlier this week I listed ten books that I have had on my TBR for a long time and I couldn't remember why. One of those books was Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennys. It is a series of letters sharing about life in a small village in Devon during World War II. It starts:

October 18, 1939
My Dear Robert
It was good to get your letter and hear that you are in a 'perfectly safe place', thought I wonder how much of that is true and how much intended to allay the alarms of your Childhood's Friend. And why, when I an everybody else know that you are in France, must I address my letters to Berkshire? Well, well, I suppose They Know Best, and Ours Not to Reason Why, but I seem to remember that when I wrote to you in the last war I used to put 'B.E.F', France, quite boldly on the envelope, therefore no doubt endangering the safey of the British Empire.

I am already pretty sure I am going to love this book!

The other meme is Friday 56 hosted at Freda's Voice

RULES:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. (If you have to improvise, that is okay)
Find a snippet, short and sweet.
Post it, and add the url to the Linky

I just started reading Aria's Travelling Book Shop by Rebecca Raisin so I thought I would use this book for the Friday 56 this week. I read the previous book in this series earlier this year and really enjoyed it so I am looking forward to reading more!

Jonathan stands out among my nomadic friends, dressed in what looks to be high-end clothes, not as shabby as the rest of us who live in tiny spaces and don't own a lot of anything because there isn't room. But it's more than that - he gives off an air of being slightly aloof and lost in thought that makes him instantly fascinating.

Currently Reading: The Passage by Justin Cronin

If you could nominate just one book as having been receiving a lot of hype over the last couple of months, then The Passage would have to be one of the books that comes to mind.

I had the book requested when I started hearing about it, and was number 1 on the list. When I picked it up from the library, there was noone after me, so I was thinking that I might even be able to extend it, however when I checked the catalogue the other day I realise that there are now more than 20 people in the queue behind me, so no extensions.

Becky from Page Turners hosts the meme Book Beginnings on Friday, where the idea is that you share the first sentence of your current read. I have been meaning to join in for the last few weeks, but this really seemed liked the perfect time to join in. So here are the opening sentences of The Passage:

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere - the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years - she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Belafonte.

In addition, here is a video of Justin Cronin talking about writing The Passage: