![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFBWKApBGJmEJy1u3ZguplaQ2FSuNUJLyczZNKeeoI1BWNiwopdr7Ied1CEBYQHvNL0jqBRdHihTbXs8oi3jrjenXrnYUFlyiS6vm86r-em4ayM0Ej3fOfJuTIo9v7G9eJXqmlckECRyVw/s320/BB.Button.jpg)
It's Friday . . . time to share book excerpts with:
- Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.
- The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
Today I'm featuring The Night Watch by Sarah Waters, borrowed from the library.
![The Night Watch](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1432343095l/25584847.jpg)
Beginning: 1947
So this, said Kay to herself, is the sort of person you've become: a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped, and who tells the time, instead, by the particular kind of cripple arriving at her landlord's door.
*********************
Page 56: "She walked stiffly, rather bowed, perhaps only self-conscious, but Helen saw her, for a second, as a stranger might: saw how handsome she was, but also how grown-up, how almost matronly; for you could catch in her something of the angular, wide-hipped, narrow-breasted figure she'd have in earnest in ten years' time."
Page 56: "She walked stiffly, rather bowed, perhaps only self-conscious, but Helen saw her, for a second, as a stranger might: saw how handsome she was, but also how grown-up, how almost matronly; for you could catch in her something of the angular, wide-hipped, narrow-breasted figure she'd have in earnest in ten years' time."
*********************
My thoughts: I am fond of stories set in London during the World War II era. Waters's novel centers on four characters whose lives intersect over a six year period from 1941 to 1947.
**********************
Which book are you reading now or about to start?
Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #99 was originally published by
Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be
republished without attribution. Retweeting and sharing on Google+ are encouraged and appreciated.
No comments:
Post a Comment