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o understand why taste was the story of his whole life so he had a lot of material to draw on it was also charmingly self deprecating and he played down his life as a famous movie star this one is limited to one year so he had to make a little go a long way as a result it s mostly about his life as a movie star and there s a lot of name dropping the engine house by rhys dylan the first in a mystery series set in wales where i went on vacation after bath one of my book club friends recommended the series to me when i told her i like to read books set in the places where i travel i plan to continue with the series because this first one was quite good and most all are available as audiobooks from my library i love a take one leave one shelf in a hotel i love searching for some gem that will then be a souvenir of my trip and i m more than happy to leave behind any books i finish but i never leave a book in an airplane seatback if i finish it on the plane i think those just get thrown away either immediately when the plane is being cleaned or later after a long internment in a lost and found closet what do you think happens to them posted by gilion at rose city reader at 8 00 am 0 comments labels book thoughts booker prize books about books campus novel crime fiction monthly wrap up soho crime thursday june 4 2026 the calamity club by kathryn stockett book beginnings book beginnings on fridays the calamity club by kathryn stockett thank you for joining me for book beginnings on fridays please share the opening sentence or so of the book you are reading this week you can also share from a book that caught your fancy even if you are not reading it right now my book beginning downtown drugstore had a bell on the door that made a single tink sound when you opened it from the calamity club by kathryn stockett author of the help which i admit i haven t read despite its enormous popularity the calamity club sounds like the kind of great yarn novels i really enjoy over 650 or so pages stockett tells the story of three women whose fates converge in oxford mississippi in 1933 it looks like a winning mix of historical fiction southern gothic great depression women s friendships grit determination and overcoming adversity i can t wait to dive in i got my copy through librarything s early reviewer program i m not one for review copies because i don t like the guilt when i don t review it fast enough but this looked too good to pass up fortunately my copy arrived well after the may 5 2026 launch date so i don t have any guilt about reviewing it in june your book beginnings please add the link to your book beginnings post in the box below if you share on social media please use the bookbeginnings hashtag mister linky s magical widgets thumb linky widget will appear right here this preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site if this widget does not appear click here to display it the friday 56 the friday 56 is a natural tie in with book beginnings 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 freda at freda s voice started and hosted the friday 56 for a long long time she is taking a break and anne at my head is full of books has taken on hosting duties in her absence please visit anne s blog and link to your friday 56 post my friday 56 from the calamity club my sister s house was very white and very wide and very tall six fat columns supported a deep front porch with a dozen black rocking chairs on it from the publisher s description abandoned by her mother one christmas eve eleven year old meg lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one now one of the unadoptable big girls at the lafayette county orphan asylum she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed birdie calhoun unmarried and outspoken has come to oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she s left behind but as the depression tightens its grip birdie discovers her sister s seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies then birdie encounters charlie a woman running low on luck with little left to lose when their fates and meg s converge charlie comes up with an audacious plan for them to take control of their lives but in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and women s freedom is fragile even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences posted by gilion at rose city reader at 5 00 pm 2 comments labels book beginnings friday 56 new book opening sentence thursday may 28 2026 the ghost road by pat barker book beginnings book beginnings on fridays the ghost road by pat barker thank you for joining me this week for book beginnings on fridays where participants share the opening sentence or two from the book they are reading you can also share from a book you want to feature even if you are not reading it at the moment my book beginning in deck chairs all along the front the bald pink knees of bradford businessmen nuzzled the sun from the ghost road by pat barker the ghost road is the final book in pat barker s world war i trilogy beginning with regeneration and the eye in the door she won the 1995 booker prize for the ghost road i m reading it right now the trilogy is not like other wwi books i ve read i expected the usual muddy trenches and battle scenes i think i m going to get some of that in the second half of the ghost road but the first two book and the first half of this one have been set during the war but in england the books center on psychiatrist william rivers treating soldiers with shell shock and other mental conditions the patients talk about what happened to them in the war which is traumatic enough but none of the action so far takes place on the battlefield your book beginning please add the link to your book beginning post in the linky box below if you participate or share on social media please use the hashtag bookbeginnings so other people can find your 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william rivers with severe pangs of conscience treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again one of these billy prior risen to the officer class from the working class both courageous and sardonic decides to return to france with his fellow officer poet wilfred owen to fight a war he no longer believes in meanwhile rivers enfevered by influenza returns in memory to his experience studying a south pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death across the gulf between his society and theirs rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his and our understanding of war posted by gilion at rose city reader at 5 00 pm 2 comments labels book beginnings booker prize friday 56 modern classics opening sentence older posts home subscribe to posts atom the 2026 european reading challenge the tbr 26 in 26 challenge the 2025 european reading challenge the tbr 25 in 25 challnge meet the blogger reader blogger sex abuse lawyer mother of tabbies 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