The Friday 56 – The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted over at Freda’s Voice. The rules are simple and go something like this.

Friday 561.  Grab a book, any book.
2.  Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
3.  Find any sentence, (or a few, just don’t spoil it)
4.  Post it. Continue reading

The Friday 56 – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted over at Freda’s Voice. The rules are simple and go something like this.

Friday 561.  Grab a book, any book.
2.  Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that’s ok.)
3.  Find any sentence, (or a few, just don’t spoil it)
4.  Post it. Continue reading

National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) – Novella Reading Challenge

The ‘official’ National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) begins Sunday, November 1st and I’ve decided to give it a go with a pretty lofty undertaking. I’ll be reading a novella a day and posting my thoughts. 

Top Ten Tuesday, Wednesday’s Lyrics, and The Friday 56 will resume in November, so if you’re interested in participating click on the link to get started.

And remember to stop back by and share your thoughts and feel free to leave some comment love.

The Reading List

  1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly 
  2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 
  3. Quicksand by Nella Larsen 
  4. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  5. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 
  7. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 
  8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 
  9. The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg 
  10. Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut  Continue reading