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Thursday, July 28, 2022

Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong #1) by Kwame Mbalia

Please join us over at RoseCityReader 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.


This is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice
These are the rules:
1. Grab a book, any book.
2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.
3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
4. Post it.
5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

I've been wanting to read this book for a while, but hadn't gotten around to reading it yet. No, I do not own this book, yes it is from the library, am I reading books I own... yes.... no but I should.


Synopsis:
   Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong ever since he failed to save his best friend when they were in a bus accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the journal his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he’s going to spend on his grandparents’ farm in Alabama, where he’s being sent to heal from the tragedy. But on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie’s journal. Tristan chases after it-–is that a doll?-–and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Bottle Tree.
   In a last attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature’s hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left black American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit exhausted.
   In order to get back home, Tristan and these new allies will need to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Can Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?
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Book Beginning:

There was a rhythm in my fists.

Friday 56:
They stood among rumpled sacks, and they clung desperately to rope handrails on the side of the raft.
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Book Blogger Hop
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What To Do
1. Post an answer for the prompt.
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3. Please visit other blogs on the list and leave a comment on their BBH post


Q: If you are listening to an audiobook, do you follow along with the print version?
 
A: I don't listen to audiobooks, though I think if I did I would follow along with a physical book. Although I wonder if that would distract me.
 
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Favorite Read/Least of July

Favorite
 
★★★★☆
(4.75)

Nah
 
★★★☆☆
 (3.75)
 

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