Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #14

 

 It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

This week's selection:

   

Beginning: Admit you are powerless and your life is unmanageable

 

Annie and I hit rock bottom the same week.  She sucked down enough tequila to incapacitate a three-hundred-pound sailor while I overdosed on a very bad man.  Neither of us thought what we were doing was self-destructive until it became too, too obvious that it was.

Reading this opening paragraph gives me the impression that I am in for a funny, entertaining read about the ups and downs of dating and the bonds of friendship.

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Page 56:  "We didn't invite Joe to the meeting.  We thought it would be strange to have a guy there even though we never specifically said that LAA was for women only.  Men nurse broken hearts too.  But still, they do it in a different way than women.  At least that's what I thought at the time."

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Overview from barnesandnoble.com:  For anyone who has ever overdosed on love—or planned the wedding before the second date—Jo Piazza’s dazzling debut novel is a must-read.

Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accounts—you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to love.

Sophie isn’t dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance.

But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie’s strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone.

If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong men—and she saves herself in the process.

Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.

Enjoy life with books...

Catherine

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