Every Friday Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader where you can 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.
I am at the stage where I just don’t know what to read next – there are so many books I want to read but I keep picking one up, putting it down, picking up yet more books not sure which one is the right one for me right now.
But yesterday I wrote about some of my TBRs including The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney and as three of my blogging friends, Cath, Sandra and Leah all said how much they had enjoyed it, I’m going to start reading it today.
The last time I saw Laurent Jammet, he was in Scott’s store with a dead wolf over his shoulder.
Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice. These are the rules:
- Grab a book, any book.
- Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.
- Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grabs you.
- Post it.
- Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda’s most recent Friday 56 post.
Page 56
I have brought a knife in my pocket, which I am now holding, rather more tightly than is necessary. It’s not really that I think for a moment the murderer would come back – for what? – but I creep on, one hand on the cabin wall, until I can listen by the window for sounds within.
Blurb:
Canada, 1867. A young murder suspect flees across the snowy wilderness. Tracking him is what passes for the law in this frontier land: trappers, sheriffs, traders and the suspect’s own mother, desperate to clear his name. As the party pushes further from civilisation, hidden purposes and old obsessions are revealed. One is seeking long-lost daughters; another a fortune in stolen furs; yet another is chasing rumours of a lost Native American culture. But where survival depends on cooperation, their fragile truce cannot afford to be broken, nor their overriding purpose – to find justice for a murdered man – forgotten.
Oh, I hope you enjoy it – I think you will! Thanks for the link. 😀
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Reading the blurb makes me want to start it over again, Margaret! Like FF, I really hope you enjoy it 🙂
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Hi Margaret!
Sounds good. The cover is very similar to another book completely (about modern fairly tales), of which I’ve just received, so had to do a double take lol
Here is mine for today! http://bit.ly/2FtihiX
Happy Friday! Have a great weekend.
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Yes, I haven’t read this one, but I’ve heard good things about it. And I know just how it is when you pick up one book and then another. Guess it’s good we have choices, right?
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Penney is a talented writer, Margaret. I really hope you’ll enjoy this one.
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Oh boy. This book sounds perfect for me. I watched a movie with a similar plot recently and now I’m in the mood for something similar.
My 56 from Alice In Murderland
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I haven’t heard of this book before. I hope you do enjoy it. This week I am featuring Under the Shadows by Gwen Florio – a mystery from my review stack. Happy reading!
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This one sounds so suspenseful! Thanks for sharing…and here’s mine: “THE FRENCH GIRL”
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I’m fascinated by stories of survival in the wilderness, so this sounds like a book I’d enjoy reading. The author does a great job of describing the person carefully creeping around the cabin in your excerpt. I can see it.
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I read “The tenderness of wolves” with my bookclub. If you are interested in how the club reacted to this novel, check out this link: https://mysteryandsuspensefiction.blogspot.ca/2014/01/
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I might like this one as well-if I see it I might pick it up!!
http://justmeandmyblogreviews.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-friday-56_9.html
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This sounds good! I liked the 56 and the blurb really caught my attention. Sounds like a page turner!
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I read this book a few years ago and although quite a bit had faded, I do recall that it was well written. My Friday Quotes
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Creeptastic 56!! Pulled me right in! Happy weekend!
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It really is so hard choosing the next book. And when I’m not actually looking for the next book I find all sorts on the shelves I want to start! Enjoy TToW… it starts slowly but is well worth persevering with.
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Definitely makes me want to know more!
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Wonderful read choices.
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