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. You can also share from a book you want to highlight just because it caught your fancy.

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is one of the time limited deals on Amazon at the moment and because I read The Handmaid’s Tale many years ago before I’d even heard of book blogs, I jumped at the chance to buy it.

The book begins:

Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified.

Also every Friday there is The Friday 56, hosted by Freda at Freda’s Voice, but she is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. You grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an eBook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

Page 56:

I don’t remember that school day very much, because why would I? It was normal. Normal is like looking out a car window. Things pass by, this and that and this and that, without much significance.You register such hours; they’re habitual. like brushing your teeth.

Description from Goodreads:

When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her–freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

I’m probably way behind many other bloggers who have read this book! If you have read it what do you think? Did you like it?