Friday 56, 5-December-2014

Welcome to the post-Thanksgiving edition of The Friday 56 hosted by Freda on Freda’s Voice. I missed last week due to travels but I’m glad to be back. Head on over there and check out the other participating blogs.

The way this meme works is pretty simple. If you want to join in, head over to Freda’s blog and add your link.

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book (I grab the one I’m currently reading)
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you.
*Post it.

The book I’ve in the middle of now is These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner. It’s a story about a girl growing up in the Arizona Territories around 1880. I’ve enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Page 56 is only a few lines (end of a chapter) but this is from the bottom of page 55. It’s the narrator answering a question her brother asked her about how a man should court a woman.

Well, I don’t know those things but I tried to tell him to just wash his face and hands and comb his hair, be an honest man and a good sport and kind hearted to her feelings, and if she doesn’t like him he has got to go slow, and bring her some flowers and such and tip his hat.

I thought this was a great summary of how a woman wants to be treated whether it’s today or in the 1880s. It’s fun to read this now and see how women have been courted in the book since Sarah (the narrator) said this.

Until next time, write on.

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