Book Beginning & Friday 56: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN!

MY BOOK BEGINNING

Oh, no, no, no, thought Clara Morrow as she walked towards the closed doors.

-- A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. This is the seventh book in Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache series, set in Quebec and centered around the charming but deadly village of Three Pines. I love the series and have some catching up to do, since the 14th book just came out, Kingdom of the Blind.

Please join me 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.

EARLY BIRDS & SLOWPOKES: This weekly post goes up Thursday evening for those who like to get their posts up and linked early on. But feel free to add a link all week.

SOCIAL MEDIA: If you are on Twitter, Instagram, or other social media, please post using the hash tag #BookBeginnings. I try to follow all Book Beginnings participants on whatever interweb sites you are on, so please let me know if I have missed any and I will catch up.

YOUR BOOK BEGINNING




TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.

MY FRIDAY 56

Peter lay in bed, clutching the edge of their double mattress. The bed was too small for them really, but a double had been all they could afford when they were first married, and Peter and Clara had grown used to having each other close.

I'm guestimating that this is about 56% of the way through the audiobook. I've read the first seven books of the series with my ears because Ralph Cosham has read all the audiobooks so far and does a great job.

Teaser Tuesday: Phoenix: Transformation Poems by Jessica Goody

Far out to sea, rakish sea lions converse
with St. Francis beneath the steely scrim
of Pacific fog. Their barking can be heard,
tenor notes against the baritone of foghorns.

-- Phoenix: Transformation Poems by Jessica Goody. I love this image because it reminds me of when I lived in San Francisco. I could hear the foghorns (and sometimes the sea lions) from where we lived in Cow Hollow.

Phoenix was recently on tour with Poetic Book Tours.

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by The Purple Booker, where you can find the official rules for this weekly event.

Mailbox Monday: Two Books by Elaine Dundy

Yes, I bought this book for the cover!

I've been seeing this NYRB Classics reissue of The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy, with it’s eye-catching cover, so I finally bought it and her other novel, The Old Man and Me.

The Dud Avocado was published in 1958 and is about the romantic and comic adventures of a young American woman in Paris. The Old Man and Me was published in 1964 and is about a slightly older American woman in London in the 1960s.

What books came into your house last week. And for those of us here in the US, what are your bookish plans for this Independence Day holiday week?

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday, a weekly "show & tell" blog event where participants share the books they acquired the week before. Visit the Mailbox Monday website to find links to all the participants' posts and read more about Books that Caught our Eye.

Mailbox Monday is graciously hosted by Leslie of Under My Apple Tree, Serena of Savvy Verse & Wit, and Martha of Reviews by Martha's Bookshelf.

Book Beginning: Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female by Tania Kindersley & Sarah Vine

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
THANKS FOR JOINING ME ON FRIDAYS FOR BOOK BEGINNING FUN!

MY BOOK BEGINNING

There are twenty-one dictionary definitions for the word love. Every woman (or Everywoman, the heroine of this book) may come to a point in her middle life when she suspects she doesn’t understand the first thing about any of these.

-- Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female by British writers Tania Kindersley and Sarah Vine. I found this fun, pretty book of girlfriendly wisdom at the Boise friends of the library bookstore yesterday. I forgot to pack my book when I left for a work trip, but luckily this favorite book haunt of mine was open late.

Please join me 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.

EARLY BIRDS & SLOWPOKES: This weekly post goes up Thursday evening for those who like to get their posts up and linked early on. But feel free to add a link all week.

SOCIAL MEDIA: If you are on Twitter, Instagram, or other social media, please post using the hash tag #BookBeginnings. I try to follow all Book Beginnings participants on whatever interweb sites you are on, so please let me know if I have missed any and I will catch up.

YOUR BOOK BEGINNING




TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.

MY FRIDAY 56

This girlfriend, shrink, mother, sister, and guide to life all rolled into one is filled to the brim with smart and witty observations on life as a woman, beautifully illustrated throughout. In fifteen chapters, you’ll find clever banter on politics; romantic love; love lost and mourned; shopping for shoes; shopping for comfort; working-motherhood; money, and spending it; and the secrets of childbirth, among many other topics common to females of all ages.

From the back cover, not page 56, because I'm posting this from the mediation I'm in Boise for. I left the book in my hotel room and had to find something to post here from the amazon "look inside" material. Oh well! Backwards and in high heals, right?

Teaser Tuesday: The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall

So I told Pol I must work alone. The only way was the quick way and I didn’t want it cluttered up with a motley crew of cover men who’d trip me and get killed in the process.

-- The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (called The Berlin Memorandum in the UK). This Cold War thriller won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel of the year in 1966.

The Quiller Memorandum was the first of 19 books in the Quiller series, written by British author Elleston Trevor under the pen name Adam Hall. Trevor also wrote books and screenplays under his own name and nine other pen names.

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by The Purple Booker, where you can find the official rules for this weekly event.