Book Beginnings and Friday 56 – 9/20/13

Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda’s Voice.    I noticed these memes and thought it would be interesting to do both.  Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week.  This is the book I’m currently reading.

Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

Book Beginnings:

I just got back from Celia Forester’s funeral.  I’m supposed to be writing up an official report for the Tempest she flew into the ground, since she’s obviously not going to write it herself and I saw it happen.  And also because I feel responsible.  I know it wasn’t my fault – I really do know that now.  But I briefed her.  We both had Tempests to deliver, and I’d flown one a couple of times before.  Celia hadn’t.  She took off ten minutes after me.  If she’d taken off first, we might both still be alive.

Friday 56:

The Camp authorities shot our Blockova, Gitte, next.  We didn’t see that coming, but we should have, shouldn’t we?  Since they didn’t shoot the Rabbits?  We should have know we weren’t going to get away with our desparate war of passive defiance.  But we thought they’d take it out on us, not on Gitte.  Although, of course, murdering Gitte and replacing her with the demon Blockova, Nadine Lutz, was taking it out on us.