Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #52

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.

Today I'm featuring:

   

The Painter 

Beginning:  BOOK ONE

Mayhem

OIL ON LINEN

40 x 50 INCHES

COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST

 

I never imagined I would shoot a man.  Or be a father.  Or live so far from the sea.

 

As a child, you imagine your life sometimes, how it will be.

 

I never thought I would be a painter.  That I might make a world and walk into it and forget myself.  That art would be something I would not have any way of not doing.

 

 

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Page 56: A dollar fifty, Pop, if you keep swearing you'll go broke.

 

Silence.

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Which book are you reading now or about to start?
 

Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #52 was originally published by Catherine for bookclublibrarian.com. This post cannot be republished without attribution.