BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY-#5

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.  Click here to see what Becky is reading.If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)                              
                                                           
                                

Title: Bright Young Things

Author: Anna Godbersen

It is easy to forget, now, how effervesscent and free we were that summer.
I wanted to know what had changed, to make them less free and bubbly. I knew this book took place in New York City during 1929 and from the cover it appeared that it was about flappers or actresses.I love reading about this time period so throw in a little mystery and romance and I know I'll be up very late reading.

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY-#4

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.  Click here to see what Becky is reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)

Title: Mad Men and Philosophy:Nothing Is as It Seems

Author: Rod Carveth

Take off your shoes. Shut the door. Have a seat. Kick back in your Eames chair. Admire that Rothko print. Pour your favorite drink. (as per the show the next sentence should be --Light one.)
(If you don't know what an Eames chair or a Rothko print is, click on them and see. I did and I'm pretty sure that I'm getting  a Rothko poster to hang in MY new office, though the chair probably not. At that price, I should be able to drive it not rest my butt  in it)

As a lover of Mad Men,one of the best shows on TV, and not just summer shows, I can honestly say , it would not have mattered one bit what the beginning of this book said, I was going to read it. Is it the sex, the humor, the outrageous situations, nostalgia, that keeps us watching? Probably, all of the above and more. This show has fascinated me from day one and I couldn't wait to read this book. Seeing NY City from the 60's and falling in love with each and every smarmy, oversexed guy and gal on this show has been a roller coaster ride. Just as I decide, I really, really can't stand Don, Pete, or Roger; they do or say something that has you shaking your head and not writing them off as a total waste of humanity. The show started out a bit slow this season due to a major shakeup at the end of last season but it has returned with a bang this week. The manipulations, the ad campaigns, the sex, Betty and the kids, Roger: they are all back in fighting form and I hated to see this week's episode end. I wanted MORE! Well, I couldn't have it but with this book in my hands, I get to delve beneath the surface and experience the events of this show on a much, much deeper level. Why am I wasting time writing this when I could be reading this great book?! Later!

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY-#3

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.  Click here to see what Becky is reading.If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)
                                                                                      
                     Tonight I will die.
       They have decided to kill me. 


And so starts Manifest by Artist Arthur.
Well, with an opening like that after reading the blub on the back, what's not to get you reading this book. 


 When fifteen-year-old Krystal Bentley moves to Lincoln, Connecticut, her mom's hometown, she assumes her biggest drama will be adjusting to the burbs after living in New York City.

But Lincoln is nothing like Krystal imagined. The weirdness begins when Ricky Watson starts confiding in her. He's cute, funny, a good listener - and everything she'd ever want - except that he was killed nearly a year ago. Krystal's ghost-whispering talents soon lead other "freaks" to her door - Sasha, a rich girl who can literally disappear, and Jake, who moves objects with his mind. All three share a distinctive birthmark in the shape of an Mand, fittingly, call themselves the Mystyx. They set out to learn what really happened to Ricky, only to realize that they aren't the only ones with mysterious powers. But if Krystal succeeds in finding out the truth about Ricky's death, will she lose him for good?

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY-#2

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.  Click here to see what Becky is reading. If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme) 

Title: The Mermaid's Mirror

Author: L. K. Madigan

Publishers Date: 10/4/10

                           ISBN: 0547194919

                              

Lena woke up on a beach.

Why is Lena on a beach? Too late out partying the night before? Running away from home?
Escaping from the evil clutches of "the bad guy"? These are the questions that flash through my head in second. Well it got me so I'm going to have to read more.

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAY -#1

 SECRET SOCIETY by

Tom Dolby

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Becky at Page Turners. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading. Click here to see what Becky is reading. Oops, she is without internet this week.

If you like, share with everyone why you do, or do not, like the sentence. (Thanks to Rose City Reader for inspiring this meme)

Even the most seasoned walkers through Manhattan's Central Park often miss Cleopatra's Needle.

Doesn't exactly reach right out and grab you. Now me, I'd have used sentence 4 or 5.

At the base of the granite obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) was the body of a young man, lying among the dead leaves and candy bar wrappers. The figure was naked except for a pair of white cotton briefs (whitey tighties).

Now this sentence would have grabbed me. Although, on second thought, being an avid JD Robb (Eve Dallas) fan this would be more appropriate an opening for one of her books. Okay we'll go with Tom's opening, which I love (smiling brightly). So far I'm on page 279 so should finish it tonight. This book has been fast paced and kept me reading so lets see what the end brings. Also I saw that "The Trust", the sequel to  Secret Society  comes out in Feb 2011.

(book blurb)

Secrets, secrets are no fun.

Secrets, secrets hurt someone…

An eccentric new girl. A brooding socialite. The scion of one of New York’s wealthiest families. A promising filmmaker. As students at the exclusive Chadwick School, Phoebe, Lauren, Nick, and Patch already live in a world most teenagers only dream about.

They didn’t ask to be Society members. But when three of them receive a mysterious text message promising success and fame beyond belief, they say yes to everything. Even to the harrowing initiation ceremony in a gritty warehouse downtown, and to the ankh-shaped tattoo they’re forced to get on the nape of their necks.

Once they’re part of the Society, things begin falling into place for them. Week after week, their ambitions are fulfilled. It’s all perfect—until a body is found in Central Park with no distinguishing marks except for an ankh-shaped tattoo.

Tom Dolby makes his teen fiction debut with this riveting novel about a dangerous Society so secret that once you get in, you can never get out.