Book Beginnings & Friday 56 - #12

Book Beginnings on Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader. Every Friday we share the first sentence (or so) of the book we’re currently reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

My Book Beginning:  

Bloodridge (The Spies Lie Series, Book 1) by D.S. Kane

Abel and Natasha Sommerstein’s flat,

20 Milner Street Number 14,

Cadogan Square, London

February 21, 6:19 p.m.

Jon Sommers listened, hidden in the walk-in closet of his parents’ bedroom. They were speaking in a language he was just beginning to understand, one of many no one had taught him. At twelve, he could speak seven languages and read five, but the one his parents were speaking now was the hardest.

My Thoughts:  I can totally remember trying to listen in to my parents conversations when I was a kid – my parents would switch to a foreign language (Spanish) for additional privacy but I too knew the language (the benefit of spending one’s first years out of the country) and was able to understand most of what they were talking about….lol

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Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice on every Friday.

To Play along here are the Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)
*Post it.
*Add your post below. 

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*It's that simple.

My 56 (Also from Bloodridge by D.S. Kane ): 

When the day ended, he pressed the lift’s buttons for the lobby and the fifth floor. The doors opened on five, and before anyone could get on, he got off, walking to the men’s room. Best to make it look like an emergency. 

Inside, he chose the stall farthest from the entrance, closed its door, and sat inside. Someone entered just behind him. Sommers pretended to retch. The other man asked if he was okay. Jon said, “No. I’m sick. Probably bad samosa from the cafeteria.” He pretended to throw up again. “Ugh, I’ll be here a while. Don’t worry, I’ll be okay.” The other man let the restroom door close as he exited.

My Thoughts:  I think those of us who have worked in a large office can confirm that people get sick at work and there’s nothing worse than walking in to the restroom stall next to a sick person – just saying.  

What do you think?  Don't forget to leave your Friday 56 below and to link-up at Freda’s Voice.  

Bloodridge (The Spies Lie Series, Book 1) by D.S. Kane

To find justice for those he loved, a man finds himself at the center of a dangerous global conspiracy…

When Jon Sommers finds out his fiancé Lisa Gabriel died in a terrorist bomb attack, he is visited by spymaster, Yigdal Ben-Levy, who throws Jon’s life into chaos, when he tells him that Lisa was not a fellow graduate student but a Mossad spy sent to bring him to Israel. Ben-Levy convinces Jon to seek justice for Lisa’s murder by joining Mossad and going after Tariq Houmaz, her killer. 

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Have a great Friday! 

Maria