May 17th's Friday Post

Welcome to Friday!  It's time for another Friday Post, where I will be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

For the first three, I'm pulling quotes from The Last Thing Claire Wanted by Karin Fitz Sanford.

 

This is a mystery, but a darker mystery than I would normally read.  Darker, but good.  It starts with a prologue, so I'm sharing the beginning of that and chapter one as well for the book beginning:

Prologue:

Just a few hundred yards from St. Paul's Parish School, the old adobe home stood in ruins in an overgrown and neglected orchard. It was fenced off and condemned by the city, but that only added to its allure for adolescent boys and the occasional vagrant.

Chapter One:

Anne McCormack rolled off the futon, got to her feet, and checked her watch. Seriously, not even ten o'clock?

Meanwhile, on page 56, we find this:

The ringing of the phone broke her reverie. It was Anne.
"Claire, hello. My uncle just called with the news: Danny's case is being reopened, effective today. He'll be contacting you soon."

I'll be sharing my review on Monday, so I hope you'll come back then.

Meanwhile, let's close things off with the Book Blogger Hop.  This week's question is:

Do you consider yourself a book collector or a book hoarder?

I consider myself a collector.  But given how I have piles of books all over the condo, I think hoarder is probably the more accurate description.  I really need to weed through my collection and get rid of books I will never read or never read again.