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The Friday 56 for 9/8/23: Eclipse by Herman Steuernagel

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The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it.

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Eclipse

Eclipse by Herman Steuernagel

Mikka traced the outlines of the cell’s flooring tiles with her index finger. The guards had placed her in a chamber set apart from the other cells, down a long hallway and a further flight of stairs. Mikka suspected this cell was reserved for the most heinous of offenders, or those who had pissed the Front off the most.

Though it was dark and isolated, she knew it couldn’t possibly be their worst cell—she still had all her fingers. She could still breathe, and she had been there for hours, so oxygen levels must have been at least somewhat close to normal.

At least they had the decency to take the handcuffs off.

There was no chair or bench to sit on, so Mikka had resigned herself to the floor. Even the Front’s prison cells were more polished and in better condition than anything in the Tubes.

My thanks to Escapist Book Tours for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials (including the novel) they provided. The opinions expressed by me are honest and my own.

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The Friday 56 for 9/1/23: A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers by Jackson Ford

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it.

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A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers

A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers by Jackson Ford

I’ve never been shot before.

I’ve been shot at, more than once. There are quite a few people who want me dead for one reason or another. And yet I have never taken a bullet. Until today.

Can confirm: getting shot sucks.

There’s no pain until I actually see the wound– the horrible, gaping hole in my flesh. Then there’s a whole lot of it. As if my brain goes oh, hey, that looks nasty. Here, have some agony to enhance the experience.

It’s like someone poured kerosene on my bicep and set it on fire. It’s the kind of pain that doesn’t actually let you scream, because it locks your throat up tight. All I can do is make this weird little hissing sound, forcing its way between my clenched teeth. And holy crap, that’s a lot of blood. Are there arteries in the bicep? How long do I have before… before I…

The Friday 56 for 8/18/23: Light Bringer by Pierce Brown

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it.

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Light Bringer

Light Bringer by Pierce Brown

The courtyard smells of hay, manure, leather, and horses. The smells wake memories of Virginia au Augustus. Of all the Golds who came and went through my grandmother’s palace, Virginia was my favorite.

I feel a faint longing for her easy smile and unpredictable conversations. Certainly that smile hid a mouth full of daggers, but Virginia had a way of making you feel privileged to have lost to her in a game of chess or an idle bet on which songbird egg would hatch first in the garden’s aviaries. I wonder if she still has time to visit her stables on Mars, or if like me, this war has swallowed her up. She was always happier after a ride in the Palatine’s park. Come to think of it, so was I.

The Friday 56 for 8/11/23: Spirelli Paranormal Investigations: Season One by Kate Baray

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The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
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Spirelli Paranormal Investigations: Season One by Kate Baray

“We need a name for this thing,” Jack said. “‘Unnamed nasty thing in the charity shop attic’ just makes him seem creepier. And it’s too long.”

Without hesitation, Marin said, “Joshua.”

“Joshua? Any particular reason?”

Marin glanced at him, a smile tugging at the corner of her lips. “Does Joshua strike terror in the hearts of his enemies?”

Jack choked back a laugh. “Sold.”

The Friday 56 for 8/4/23: All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

Had to take a break last week due to posting toooooo many things. But I’m back to my typical trickle 🙂

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
The Friday 56 Post it.

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All the Sinners Bleed

All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

He’d put the phone back in the evidence bag after fighting the urge to put it under his front tire and roll over it five or six times, then set it on fire. Titus had seen his share of horrific things in his twelve years as an FBI agent. The ability of one human to visit depravity upon another was as boundless as the sea and as varied as there were grains of sand on a beach.

The images on [redacted]’s phone were the worst he’d ever seen.

He kept thinking about purification by immolation. It seemed like that was the only thing that could remove the stain of those images from his mind, his heart, his soul. Burn the phone. Scald his eyes with hot oil. Put [redacted] and [redacted] on a pyre and reduce them both to ashes, then scatter those ashes to the four winds. Erase all proof of their existence and the things they had done. But the children in those pictures deserved to have their story told. They deserved justice. Whatever that was these days.

The Friday 56 for 7/21/23: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson

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The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
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The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson<

GUARANTEE ONE
Your dimension will have an island of Great Britain populated by a society of humans who work steel, but have not yet discovered gunpowder. They will have a functional society and culture that roughly equates to the Late Classical, Early Medieval, or Late Medieval (pre-gunpowder) Earth time period.

GUARANTEE TWO
The people of Great Britain will speak a language that is intelligible to modern English speakers. We chose our dimensional band specifically for this reason!

The Friday 56 for 7/14/23: The Eternity Fund by Liz Monument

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RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
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The Eternity Fund

The Eternity Fund by Liz Monument

They weren’t there. We passed over the Klone Zone, and the rows of windowless warehouses that force-grew veg. They slid away beneath us, grey anonymous blocks identical to every other in the district save for the neon leaves that identified their roof apexes. I’d heard tell the lights inside were so intensive that the vegetables grew six times faster than in real daylight. The catch was their adverse effect on human tissue. The non-robotic staff had bleached hands, white-filmed eyes and untreatable skin rashes. And that was only on the outside.

The Friday 56 for 7/7/23: Stray Ally by Troy Lambert

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

RULES:
The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
The Friday 56 Find a snippet, short and sweet.
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Stray Ally

Stray Ally by Troy Lambert

The shovel in his hands, the white sheet folded up onto the top of his head. The gallows.

The grave behind him. The Lieutenant’s arm around his shoulder.

The camp sign in the next picture. Todd Clarke in the background, watching. He picked up the phone, then thought better of it. Pay phones had become nearly impossible to find. Time to go buy a prepaid cell and make some calls.

This would be the last time, no matter what. Of course, that’s what he’d said the last time.

The Friday 56 for 6/30/23: The Worst We Can Find by Dale Sherman

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

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The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
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The Worst We Can Find

The Worst We Can Find: MST3K, RiffTrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies by Dale Sherman

Who could turn away from a movie with a title like They Saved Hitler’s Brain in hopes of seeing Hitler’s brain at some point? (It paid off, as you got to see his whole head in that one.) As much as everyone ridiculed Plan Nine from Outer Space, who among us wasn’t somehow charmed by the oddball dialogue? (“The saucers are up there. And the cemetery’s out there. But I’ll be locked up in there.”) Who could forget sitting through the Japanese monster movie without monsters, Attack of the Mushroom People, and yet be stunned by the downer ending?

The Friday 56 for 6/23/23: Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon

The Friday 56This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.

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The Friday 56 Grab a book, any book.
The Friday 56 Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
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Killing Me

Killing Me by Michelle Gagnon

“Here you go.” The kid slid the box across the count handed me a huge collector’s mug. “I gave you the SpongeBob one.”

I put a hand to my chest. “SpongeBob’s my favorite!”

“Mine too.” His face had gone so red it practically matched his polyester uniform.

I slid my carefully folded twenty across the counter, “I’ve only got a hundred, can you break it?”

“Um, sure. I got enough.” He was already pushing buttons on the register.

“So how long have you worked here?” I asked. “I haven’t seen you before.”

“Yeah, I just started a few weeks ago.”

“Lucky me.”

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