This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.
RULES:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find a snippet, short and sweet.
Post it.
from Page 56% of:
The Silk Empress by Josef Matulich
He poured tea for both of them into little glass cylinders with fancy silver handles.
“The British, and perhaps the court of the Emperor, are not very wise. Because they have a problem with rats, they hunt down mice and squirrels.”
Algie thought on that as he took a sip of his tea, strong, sweet, and heavy with lemon and spices. “Is that a metaphor,” he asked Zdan, “or a problem of translation?”
Zdan laughed out, displaying his strong yellow teeth. “I will miss your visits, British boy!”
Freda Mans-Labianca
Sounds like there is so much more going on that I missing….
Happy weekend!
HCNewton
ditto (still about 15 pages from that scene) 🙂
Literary Feline
I hope you are enjoying Silk Empress. The excerpt doesn’t offer much, but it got me curious enough to check out the synopsis. Air pirates and and a clockwork dragon sounds like it would be a fun read.
HCNewton
yeah…I was iffy about the snippet. Glad it made you look into it more.
vidya
sounds interesting.. a new to me author who i think i should pick up now based on the 56..
Here is my Friday post
HCNewton
Thanks!
(really dug your 56!)