Rules:
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages
This week's theme is July 4th (celebrations, independence, freedom, flag, fireworks).
He stood by the hearth, surrounded by men in dinner jackets and women in glittering dresses. Uncle Bruce was in stitches over something Mr. Ogilvie was saying, both men's faces red with laughter. Pipe and cigar smoke circled up into thin patterns above their heads, the music rising to the room's vaulted ceilings. Ice clinked around in tumbler cups and a cork popped somewhere from a bottle of champagne. The mood was festive, as if Maddie had been found and everyone had a cause for celebration.
~page 169, The Midnight Tunnel by Angie Frazier
This is one Fiona and I read together. It's 1905 and Suzanna Snow's parents run a hotel in New Brunswick and her uncle is a well-known detective in Boston in whose footsteps she'd like to follow. When a young guest of the hotel goes missing during a thunderstorm, Zanna's Uncle Bruce is called in to solve the mystery. In the process of her own investigation Zanna's impressions (and adoration) of her uncle are greatly altered. The Midnight Tunnel is the first in a new series by the author of Everlasting. Fiona says, "It had a very good plot and whenever we stopped reading it, it seemed more mysterious."
Very fitting!
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