Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted each week by Rose City Reader. It’s a chance to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading this week. You can check out others’ book beginnings here.
My book beginning:
The bite of salt in the breeze filled Dodo’s lungs and the screech of gulls welcomed her back.
Are you intrigued? Ready to turn the page and keep reading? I can tell you it’s a delightful cozy, and I’ll be reviewing it soon.
Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. It starts each Friday and runs through the following Thursday. Each week, there’s a new prompt featuring a book-related question. It’s designed to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, make new blogging friends, and gain followers. See what others have to say on this topic and link up your own post here.
This week’s prompt:
I’ve always loved The Princess Bride. (Maybe I should read the book from which it’s adapted.) It isn’t a movie, but the BBC miniseries of Gormenghast is kind of fun. My husband LOVES the first two books in the trilogy by Mervyn Peake. (It’s universally agreed that the third book, Titus Alone, is awful and should be avoided.) I couldn’t stomach the books (Peake paints with words – layer upon layer upon layer of excruciating detail, and hideous run-on sentences that never seem to end – and SO.MANY.WORDS to describe every blessed thing), but the miniseries was entertaining. And I found the recent adaptation of Dune quite enjoyable. It’s tough to take a book that’s so dense and that lives so much in its characters’ heads and make it come to life on the big screen. The recent version was way better than the 1984 adaptation.
What’s your favorite book-to-screen adaptation? Share in a comment!
I haven’t seen or read The Princess Bride. I have seen it mentioned a couple of times on here now!
That book also looks good – I love the cover too!
Have a great weekend!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Isn’t it a fun cover? Murder on the Med is the first book I’ve read by Ann Sutton, but I’m going to have to catch up on the series. I’m quite enjoying it!
Happy weekend to you, too!
What a great, descriptive beginning. I haven’t heard about this book. I’m going to check it out right now. It looks great.
Have a great weekend!
Thanks for stopping by, Yvonne! Hope you enjoy the book, and happy weekend to you, too!
I love the sound of this one! I’m always on the lookout for new cozy mysteries. Thanks for sharing! Hope you have a great weekend! 🙂
Thanks for visiting, Ashley! I tend to read a fair number of cozies, so stop back by – you never know what I’ll be running my mouth about.
Hope you have a great weekend, too!
The book sounds great. My family LOVES The Princess Bride, although my daughter is the only one who has read the book.
Y’all are in good company – I haven’t read it, either! Now I’m going to have to check it out from the library, since I’ve run my mouth about it. LOL
The Princess Bride, always one of the my favorite movies. I haven’t seen the new Dune movie but judging by the trailer, I suppose it’s better than the 1984 version, certainly looks less dated.
Have a lovely day.
It is significantly better than the 1984 version. I think it’s good that they divided the story up over two movies. That’s a lot of book to try to cram in one movie.
Thanks for stopping by the blog!