The Friday 56 #TheFriday56

Posted on by BonnieReadsAndWrites

The Friday 56 is sponsored by Freda’s Voice.

* Grab a book, any book.

*Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your e-reader.
If you have to improvise, that is okay.

*Find a snippet, short and sweet, and post it.

The rules are here: Friday56 Rules.

From Page 56 of When Stone Wings Fly by Karen Barnett:

PAGE 56 SNIPPET:

“Rosie retrieved the wooden crate of Ma’s keepsakes and carried it over to the table. Her folks were seldom far from her thoughts, but holding special pieces of their lives often made them seem uncomfortably close. Almost like Pa would come busting through the door and demand to know why she’d moved the precious object from its place of safety and honor.”

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Kieran Lucas’s grandmother is slipping into dementia, and when her memory is gone, Kieran’s last tie to the family she barely knows will be lost forever. Worse, flashbacks of her mother’s death torment Granny Mac and there’s precious little Kieran can do to help.

In 1931, the creation of the new Great Smoky Mountains National Park threatens Rosie McCauley’s home. Rosie vows the only way the commission will get her land is if they haul her off in a pine box. When a compromise offers her and her disabled sister the opportunity to stay for Rosie’s lifetime, her acceptance sets her apart from the other mountain folk. And the bond she’s forming with ornithologist and outsider Benton Fuller only broadens the rift.

Eighty-five years later, Kieran heads back to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find answers to her great-grandmother’s mysterious death and bring peace to Granny Mac before it’s too late. Park Historian Zach Jensen may be the key to locating both the answers. But what Kieran needs clashes with the government regulations Zach is sworn to uphold. Can she trust God for a solution to heal this generations-old wound?

I’m reading this one for the November edition of Historical Novels Review, so I’ll put a review up after November 1st. You can read more about the book on Amazon by clicking on the cover.

Published by BonnieReadsAndWrites

I love to read and write book reviews in my free time. I review advance review copies of books on Netgalley for various publishers. I am also a reviewer for Historical Novels Review Magazine, the magazine of the Historical Novel Society. I review books from publishers of all size, large to small. I have a special place in my heart for indie authors. I will sometimes post a little writing that I might dabble in occasionally. I also am lucky enough to live in the Smoky Mountains, so I'll be sharing photos of the beauty around me from time to time.

10 thoughts on “The Friday 56 #TheFriday56”

  1. From, And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. “His days in Shadbagh were numbered, like Shuja’s. He knew this was true. There was nothing left for him here. He had no home here. He would wait until the winter passed and the spring thaw set in, and he would rise one morning before dawn and he would step out the door. He would choose a direction and he would begin to walk.”

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