Book Beginnings & Friday 56 - #43

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:  

Wicked by Joanne Fluke

Prologue

Summer 1995

It was over a hundred degrees in the shade, and Eve Carrington was too hot even to smile at the handsome truck driver who pulled up beside her at the stoplight.

My Thoughts:  I totally get this – it’s been so freaking hot in the St. Louis area this summer and extremely humid.  When you work up a sweat just walking to the mail box and literally want to shave all the hair off the top of your head – it’s too hot to enjoy!

What do you think?  Don't forget to leave your book beginning below and to link-up at Rose City Reader.  

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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. 

*Don’t forget to add your post URL (not your blog url) at Freda’s Voice.  
*It's that simple.

My 56 (Also from Wicked by Joanne Fluke at 56% on Kindle): 

     “I know what you’re doing, Scott.” Eve confronted him.  “You’re going to write about this whole thing and try to sell it.  You figure it will jump start your career. Am I right?”

     

My Thoughts:  From the sound of this, it sounds like Eve and Scott, whoever he is, are headed towards a difference of opinion about something that’s been going on….this could be very interesting.

So what do you think?  Keep reading?  Don’t forget to link up at Freda’s Voice. 

About Wicked by Joanne Fluke

A Killer Rivalry. . .

When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writer’s workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're staying in isn't ready and Eve sees the old mansion they'll be moved into, she starts having second thoughts. Not only is the mansion isolated but the deadlines are tight, the pressure intense, and the competition incredibly fierce. Her biggest rival, Angela, is writing a murder mystery based on the workshop and its participants. It's a brilliant idea. Until life begins to imitate art--and death begins to knock out the competition . . .

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Have a great Friday! 

Maria