Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader.
The 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:
Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston
October 1854
In the front row sit the survivors.
Virginia can see them clearly from her seat in the dock. Even when she looks away from them-toward the judge, the jury-she still feels their presence. Five women, broken and brave, who came to this courtroom against all odds. She wonders if they feel jarred, the way she does, minding the rules of civilization again: caring what they wear, watching what they say, wondering how their actions make others feel. They were free of all that, not so long ago. Then again, what a steep price they paid for that fleeting freedom.
From 56%:
Charles Street Jail, Boston
October 1854
Today's food is no better than yesterday's, but with each day, Virginia finds it more tolerable. Probably because it has become habit. in the North, she became accustomed to flour paste and pemmican, and after that, nothing, then raw meat, then jerked meat, then nothing again. Whatever they call food here is at least halfway worthy of the name and arrives regularly. She never has to wonder whether there will be more.
That cover alone pulls me in!! Happy Thanksgiving weekend!
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's a gorgeous cover.
DeleteI started this book today.
Have a great weekend of reading and happy Thanksgiving.
That cover is so cool! Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteIt is.
DeleteThank you for stopping by.
Have a great weekend.