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Friday, January 1, 2016

Friday Quotes---January 1st

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. Share the opening quote from the book.
The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice.  Find a quote from page 56.

Check out the links for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Participants don't select their favorite, coolest, or most intellectual books, they just use the one they are currently reading. This is the book I'm reading right now:

 Book Title: The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 Book Beginnings:
A column of smoke rose thin and straight from the cabin chimney. The smoke was blue where it left the red of the clay.
Friday 56: 
Lem said to him in a low voice, "Iffen I only had my sweetheart here, to sing and dance." Jody asked him brashly, "who-all's your sweetheart?"
Comments: I am finally reading this classic coming-of-age tale which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. The book isn't exactly riveting stuff but it is very descriptive as you see from the first quote and full of the local dialect from the Florida setting exampled in the second quote. Have you every read this classic? What are your memories of it?


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