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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Friday Quotes: When We Collided

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City ReaderShare the opening quote from the book.
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e Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's VoiceFind 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---


Title: When We Collided by Emery Lord

Book Beginnings:
I knew I was in love with Verona Cove on the first day, but waited until the seventh day to commit.

Friday 56:
Vivi just laughs. 'Manna is the food they eat in heaven. And stinky cheese is delicious cheese; you just don't realize that until you are older. Trust me, though. Someday, you'll eat this salad again and realize, holy moly, it's sprinkled with magic.'

Comments: The story is about mental illness. One of the main characters, Vivi, has stopped taking her medicine which keeps the symptoms of her bipolar disease in check. When I was in college one of my sorority sisters did the same thing and she went for the highest high for weeks of frantic activity and creativity and then CRASH. I am wondering when this will happen in this book.


11 comments:

  1. Bipolar is definitely a touchy subject! My ex had it ... until he went off his meds and refused to go back on. I look forward to hearing how they handle it here!

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  2. Very interesting topic!

    Here's my book choice for this week : http://bit.ly/2owKV9o

    Have a great weekend!

    Sassy :)

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  3. Sounds like it could be a deep book. Enjoy it and the weekend.
    sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes

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  4. I do love reading books about mental illness...and I've known people like Vivi. Thanks for sharing, and I am going to check it out. Thanks for visiting my blog.

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  5. Sounds fascinating. My YA pick this week is Noteworthy by Riley Redgate. Happy reading!

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  6. I'm intrigued by the snippets and plot enough to see if I can find a copy. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. That's an awesome first line! I enjoy reading books about mental illness. I think there's a lot we can learn from them.

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  8. I loved this book and thought it was so well done. Great quotes.

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  9. A heavy topic. The quotes are interesting, thanks for sharing. Here is my post
    http://totallyaddictedtoreading.blogspot.com/2017/04/friday-memes-book-beginnings-and-friday_21.html

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  10. :-) Sounds like a great read! Happy weekend!

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  11. I know people like Vivi. This sounds interesting!

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