Theme Thursdays -- Touch -- Redemption by Laurel Dewey

Theme Thursdays is a meme hosted by Kavyen over at Reading Between Pages.  She says:


Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one Thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursdays)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)

This week's theme is touch: 
 

Ingrid shook Jane's hand with one hand and cupped her other hand around Jane's knuckles.  The gesture was a universal body language sign that told Jane a lot about Ingrid.  This was a woman who thought with her heart and was motivated by a strong need to feel the pain of others.

~ page 108, Redemption by Laurel Dewey

Friday 56 and Book Beginnings -- December 17, 2010

Welcome to The Friday 56, now hosted by Freda’s Voice.
Here’s how it works:
Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it
*Link it here...

The healing power of touch cannot be overestimated.
~How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., Melba Colgrave, Ph.D., & Peter McWilliams

My pastor gave me this book -- my husband and I are in the process of divorcing. 










How to participate: All you have to do is share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. Include the title and the author so we know what you're reading (and can go pick up a copy if it sounds good!). Then, if you feel so moved, let us know what your first impressions were based on that first line and whether or not you liked the sentence(s).

"Some acts of a powerful nation affect people somewhere in the world very directly, like starting a war.  Sometimes a lack of action has  a deplorable effect, such as not stopping genocide."  ~ 100 Ways America Is Screwing up the World by John Tirman

A very interesting and informative book that takes itself less seriously than one might think.