7.21.2017

the friday 56

The Friday 56

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)
*Post it.


I'm reading Homegoing.


And yet Quey did learn. He sat in Effia's lap as she taught him to speak, repeating a word in both Fante and English until Quey could hear in one language and answer in the other. She had only learned how to read nad write herself in the first year of Quey's life and yet she taught him with vigor, holding his small, fat fist in hers as they traced lines and lines and lines together.

1 comment:

fredamans said...

A lovely moment shared with the reader. Sounds like a great read! Happy weekend!