BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
A Fresh Start for the New Year!
Good grief! I had such Christmas Brain I forgot to post Book Beginnings on Fridays two weeks in a row! I've been late posting many times, but I've never forgotten entirely until now. Sorry! And thanks for coming back.
Please join me again in 2025 to post the opening sentence (or so) from the book you are reading this week. You can also post from a book that caught your attention and you want to highlight, even if you are not reading it right now. Leave the link to your Book Beginnings post in the Linky box below.
A natural tie-in with Book Beginnings is The Friday 56, now hosted by Anne at My Head is Full of Books. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.
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MY BOOK BEGINNING
Two men sat in a darkened room.
-- from The Venetian Affair by Helen MacInnes.
I love Helen MacInnes's Cold War thrillers. The protagonists are usually always smart, competent, and classy. The heroes are gentlemen, usually with an intellectual bent, and the women are all very intelligent, but can outrun bad guys even in high heels.
Lately, I've fallen out of the habit of reading her books, but hope to change that this year. For starters, I'm doing a readalong of The Venetian Affair with some bookstagram buddies on Instagram. If you are on the 'gram and want to join us, follow me @gilioncdumas and I'll add you to the group chat.
MY FRIDAY 56
-- from The Venetian Affair:
Fenner had a small, quiet room to himself, with old acquaintance Dade keeping so much in the background that he was practically a crack in the plaster. There was a stenotypist tapping noiselessly on a small machine that obediently sucked in every syllable and spewed out a continuous sheet of paper covered with compressed symbols.
FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn’t his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?
Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteI'm the one who forgot to post this week. We just got back from a short trip and I marched off to bed without a second thought. Happy New Year. Please visit Head Full of Books now that I have up Friday56 post!
ReplyDeleteHelen MacInnes's novel sounds like a good one. It's been awhile since I last read a cold war thriller. Have a Happy New Year, Gillion. Thank you for hosting!
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