The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice. Join us every Friday and share an excerpt from a book you’re been reading.
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.
*Add your (url) post here in Linky. Add the post url, not your blog url. It’s that simple.
**Be sure to leave a link to your Friday 56 post in the comments!**
“…To her dad, I’m just another brown kid.”
“What’s wrong with that?” Finn said, though he knew what Miguel was talking about. Roza was the sort of color that older ladies first called ‘dark’ and then later called ‘olive’, as if being green was somehow nicer.”
Laura Ruby’s Bone Gap was weird and thrilling and I loved it. Magical realism is a genre that I find myself continually drawn to and this novel so good. My full review can be found here if you are interested. Cover is linked to Goodreads.
Goodreads Synopsis:
“Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away and left Finn and Sean O’Sullivan on their own. Just a few years before, their mother had high-tailed it to Oregon for a brand new guy, a brand new life. That’s just how things go, the people said. Who are you going to blame?
Finn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember. But the searches turned up nothing, and no one believes him anymore. Not even Sean, who has more reason to find Roza than anyone, and every reason to blame Finn for letting her go.”
I need to read this! Sounds like it’s right up my alley!
Check out my Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings).
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It’s really good, kind of similar to The Accident Season. Hope you get a chance to pick it up.
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Sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing. Here’s my 56: http://www.sharonsbooknook.com/2016/02/05/the-friday-56-death-wish/
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Glad you think so!
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I love magical realism too. Read on and have a great weekend.
sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes
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Isn’t magical realism an amazing genre? Thank you!
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I keep seeing Bone Gap pop up. I’m going to have to look a bit closer at it. It sounds rather interesting.
Thanks for sharing!
Amanda
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It’s a really interesting read, I’m constantly impressed with magical realism.
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This one is on my Kindle. Now that it is an award winner I really should move it up my reading list. I am spotlighting Jockey Girl by Shelley Peterson – a story to win any horse lovers heart. Happy reading!
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I hope you get to it soon, it’s really a good book. Thanks!
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I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book! I NEED TO READ IT!! 😀
Friday56! 😀
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Yes , you do, it’s awesome!
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What a curious book! The cover is interesting and so are the excerpts. I do want to know more. Here’s mine: “BROOKLYN”
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It’s certainly a story I haven’t see before. Glad to hear you like the cover and excerpt!
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Nice excerpts, here’s my Friday Book Frippery
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Thank you so much!
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Sounds very intriguing!
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It’s a very unique novel with an intriguing storyline for sure.
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I’ve heard of this one before, but I’m still undecided about if I want to read it or not. But the 56 does sound interesting.
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I’d recommend it to you if you like magical realism or have ever been curious about the genre.
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Intriguing…let me check out your review. See you there. =)
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Glad to hear you’re intrigued 🙂
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LOL I get that. I get called olive skinned too… not that I find it appealing. 🙂
Happy weekend!
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It’s certainly an interesting thing to study, how people define and perceive others. Happy weekend to you!
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