Book Beginning | Friday 56 | Blogger Hop || Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire

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, finally, started reading the first book, I shared that one for one of these posts about a year ago at this point (twice *facepalm*). I'm about half way though the first book at the moment, and since it's a short book I think I could be done with it by the end of the weekend.

 

 

Synopsis:

   Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.
This is the story of what happened first…
   Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.
   Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.
They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted.
   They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.

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Book Beginning:

People who knew Chester and Serena Wolcott socially would have placed money on the idea that the couple would never choose to have children.

Friday 56:

The floor was a narrow lip, no more than two feet at its widest point, circling the outside of the room.

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What To Do
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Q: If you receive a request from an author to read his/her book and you don't have time, do you suggest another way to help the author?

A: Ya know, I never really thought to do that. But it's only happened a couple of times, so I don't feel too-too bad about not doing that.

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Favorite and Least Enjoyed read of August.

I actually remembered to do this.

I haven't had the greatest reading month this month. 

 

 

Yay

The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope

★★★★★

Nay

Game Changer by Stacey Lynn

★☆☆☆☆