Book Beginnings and Friday 56 -- Time and Again by Jack Finney

Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by A Few More Pages. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence, or two, of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

In shirt-sleeves, the way I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board.   

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Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog. Post a link along with your post back to this blog.

 I stared out at the uncountable thousands of windows in the sooty sides of hundreds of buildings, and down at the streets nearly solid with car tops.  I tried to turn it back into a rural scene, imagining a man down there with buckles on his shoes and wearing a pigtailed white wig, walking along a dusty country road called the broad way.  It was impossible.


I enjoyed Finney's take on time travel to the past, specifically from late 60s New York City to NYC in 1882.  I was thinking, as I read, that I would probably give it four out of five stars.  But in the last 60-100 pages I started feeling desperate to know how it would all play out and turning page as quickly as I could read them (or vice versa . . . I'm not really sure).  That makes me think that perhaps it deserves five stars after all.