BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
How is your February shaping up? Mine is roaring out the door. February is my birthday month, so I usually like to dawdle around, doing a lot of fun, personal stuff. Not much chance of that this year! We’ve got a couple of big cases on the boil here at work and it does not look like I’ll have time to dawdle until some time in March, if I’m lucky!
At least I’ve had some terrific looking new books come my way lately. I hope I can at least find a few minutes to spend with them here and there.
Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are spending time with this week. Share your Book Beginning link in the linky box below.
MY BOOK BEGINNING
I often find that men like you underestimate women like me.
– from the Preface to A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris. Well, that’s just a perfect book beginning for the mood I’m in right now! Of course, I’m afraid the narrator may be a sociopath.
I’ve read a few of Joanne Harris’s books, like Chocolate, of course. This one looks like something different, described as a “phycological thriller,” about the first woman to be the head of St. Oswald’s private school. I plan to read it this weekend.
YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS
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THE FRIDAY 56
MY FRIDAY 56
From A Narrow Door:
I can not claim the moral high ground, or course: I too favor the [Thirsty Scholar pub], with its battered old bookcases. Some of them are allegedly even from the old St. Oswald’s library, which was rebuilt and refurbished in 1834, and refurbished by Jeremiah Smarthwaite, a local mining millionaire with delusions of immortality.