Friday, October 30, 2020

Book Beginnings 10/30/20

 


Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City ReaderThe Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

My book beginnings: 


DOVE

This was how she knew the end was near.

  At nighttime, after she'd gone to bed and begun the welcome voyage toward sleep, her friends would appear. They fluttered the curtains and stirred the dust, bringing with them the smell of long-ago, faraway places. 

From 56%:

Florence, Alabama

1934

Ruth had always been a light sleeper, but with Steadfast's escapes and the ever-present hope that Dell would reappear on her windowsill, she'd gotten jumpier than Jesse James's watchdog.



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