Showing posts with label friday 56. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friday 56. Show all posts

Friday, September 17, 2010

Friday 56






Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.



Behind her, Rob's car door slammed. "Yeah," he yelled after her. "You are an idiot." Amy turned, glaring. The cool morning chilled her bare arms. He leaned on the roof of the car. "You're an idiot to think that no one else would be interested in you." pg 56 from Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika

Friday, August 27, 2010

Friday 56

The Friday 56

Rules:
  • Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
  • Turn to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of Storytime with Tonya and Friends.
  • Post a link along with your post back to Storytime with Tonya and Friends.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
"The ladies who profit by your kind services, Mr. Hartright, must settle, and decide , and so on, for themselves. My niece is fond of your charming art. She knows just enough about it to be conscious of her own sad defects." pg 56 of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Friday, January 29, 2010

Friday 56

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


"Too bad there hadn't been more of the building and streetlamp to make an accurate guess of where the crime scene was located, but she doubted that Griffin was about to pull out a crime scene shot for her benefit"

My selection is taken from pg. 56 of The Bone Chamber by Robin Burcell.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday 56


Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


My selection comes from one of the MANY books that have arrived at my house this week! I haven't started reading it yet but here is my teaser:

"Davy's eye have gone completely blank."

taken from pg. 56 of Freaks and Revelations by Davida Wills Hurwin

Friday, January 8, 2010

The Friday 56




Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

My sentence comes from the book Eternal on the Water by Joseph Monninger.

"No."

lol That's it. The fifth sentence on the 56th page. Enticing isn't it? This is actually (so far) a pretty good read!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Friday 56-July 10th

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).
5. Post a link along with your post back to Storytime with Tonya and Friends.


"All right then," I said finally. "We'll see how this goes. If anything goes wrong-anything at all-we leave. No arguments."

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Friday, June 19, 2009

The 56-June 19th



1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).


My book is

"the plane was isolated in the hangar, like a corpse inside a massive morgue. "

**i had to use page 57 because page 56 is a blank page***

Friday, June 12, 2009

The 56-June 12th



1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).


"if he wanted to act on his impulses he could. so, she was right. the towel was a good thing. he concentrated on her face even though he would have preferred to concentrate on those two lonely buttons holding together her shirt." pg. 56 from My Forbidden Desire

Friday, June 5, 2009

The 56-June 5th


1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like).

"He'd been promoted tot he Senate only recently, but had served as their unofficial torturer almost since she made him. He'd come to Philly to do some freelance work once and hadn't liked that Tony refused to throw me in as a bonus for a job well done." pg. 56 from Touch the Dark by Karen Chance

Friday, May 29, 2009

Friday 56-May 29th


Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


"Anyway, because of her weakness, my mother had her own set of rooms right down the hall from my father. As much as she might have wished to sleep beside her husband, I think she was grateful for her own space. My father's personality could be a bit overwhelming at times-I mean, he was Death."
pg. 56 from Death's Daughter by Amber Benson