Good morning, and welcome to our Friday Memes: Book Beginnings, hosted by A Few More Pages, and The Friday 56, hosted by Freda’s Voice.
In our beginnings, we share opening line(s) and tell how we feel about them. In the 56, we excerpt something from p. 56.
In both of these, we hop over to the hosts’ sites and add our links, so we can visit the rest of you and your offerings.
Today, I’m spotlighting another graduate from my TBR stacks that is on this upcoming week’s reading list. A Ticket to Ride, by Paula McLain, is a coming-of-age tale.
From Amazon: The summer of 1973 in Moline, Ill., is enlivened and permanently marked for 15-year-old Jamie by the arrival of her charismatic, seen-it-all cousin, Fawn Delacorte, in McLain’s sure-handed if familiar debut novel (after the memoir Like Family). Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Jamie is a lonely, naïve teenager from Bakersfield, Calif., sent to live with her uncle Raymond after her grandmother falls sick. She falls under Dawn’s spell and embraces the dissolute life of layabout teenagers, brushing ever closer to the inevitable tragedy to come….
Beginning: It was August. For years it was August. There were pomegranates and wilting patio chairs and long afternoons that seemed seared open.
Okay, I get the message that it’s one of those long, hot summers….
P. 56: The most troubling part was that she claimed to be in love. Suzette never had a better sales pitch than when she was starting over, newly employed or in love.
Now I’m eager to dive right in. What about you? What treasures can you share today? Please stop by….
I’m with Suzette on the overzealousness… I tend to jump in with both feet and a big breath!
Thanks for visiting my Friday 56 from His Hearth!
Happy Friday – Miranda
Yes, that can be a problem at times, Miranda, but it’s also kind of fun. Thanks for stopping by.
I love your post. The song “Ticket To Ride” by The Beatles perhaps goes along with this story, especially if you watch The Carpenters sing it on YouTube.
As always, thanks for the visit on my blog. Have a great weekend!
Yes, I can hear the tune and lyrics right now! Thanks for stopping by, Lady D.
Returning the visit. I like the starter- really sets the scene
Yes, it does, doesn’t it? Glad you could visit, Abigail….
That sounds like August here in Texas! Hope you enjoy your book… Here’s a look at my beginning and 56… Happy reading!
Or August in California’s Central Valley! Thanks for stopping by, Tasha.
Ick, I can just imagine how uncomfortably hot it is in that beginning.
Thanks for participating in Book Beginnings!
Yes, I agree about that, Katy….thanks for stopping by.
Hi!
This sounds like a great book. I’ll have to check it out. Have a great day!
Sherrie
Just Books
Thanks, Sherrie…hope you have a great weekend, and thanks for stopping by.
I like the idea of pulling something off the TBR stack. I just keep adding books to the top and never get a chance to dig down. Happy reading!
Well, I must admit to a “sneaky” aspect to my stacks…I have my OLD ones and then the NEW ones, stashed in different rooms so that never the twain shall meet.
I have to pull off of both, but there’s a greater satisfaction when I move them off the OLD ones.
Thanks for stopping by, Kathy.
“pomegranates and wilting patio chairs and long afternoons that seemed seared open”–that’s quite an image! I like it!
Here’ s my beginning: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-beginnings-on-friday_28.html
I know, Bev! I loved it…and thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend.
Sounds really good!
Thanks, Yvonne…glad you could stop by!
Sounds like a good one! Can’t wait to see your review of it
Thanks, Helen….glad you could stop by.
Great 56, but after reading the title I can’t stop singing The Beatles. HA!
Thanks for participating!
Freda @ Freda’s Voice
Oh, I know…someone else had that reaction, too. Thanks for stopping by, Freda.