Friday Memes

Book Beginnings on Friday is a bookish meme now sponsored by Rose City Reader (who originally inspired the meme). Here's what you do: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments section. Include the title and author so we know what you're reading. Then, if you are so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and if you did or did not like that sentence. Link up each week at Gilion's place.

Here are the first few lines from Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym:

 

That day the four of them went to the library, though at different times. The library assistant, if he had noticed them at all, would have seen them as people who belonged together.

 

{And a very good place to go....}

The Friday 56 is a bookish meme sponsored by Freda's Voice. It is really easy to participate. Just grab a book, any book, and turn to page 56. Find a sentence that grabs you and post it.

 

Here is the mine from Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym:

Miss Embrey lived on the ground floor and her three tenants--Letty, Marya and Miss Alice Spurgeon--came out of their rooms like animals emerging from burrows and descended the stairs at half-past eight.