Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you’re reading.
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Head Full of Books where every Friday you pick a book and turn to page 56 or 56%, and select a sentence or a few, as long as it’s not a spoiler.
The Book:
Shoot the Moon
by Isa Arsén
Publication Date October 10, 2023
Goodreads
Pitched as THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS meets THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, about a queer female engineer at NASA working on the 1969 space race and her unusual discovery linked to her childhood in the 1940s, which explores the high human cost of scientific progress and the driving need for both intellectual fulfillment and romantic love, no matter the time and place.
Beginning
I blew a piston of smoke through the open window and took another draw on its heels, my eyes fixed on the waxing moon hanging high above. The still dug softly into my elbows as I drank the fresh air
Page 56
Peggy and I stayed close for a while. Our secret education felt to me like an answer to every truth in the universe, but Peggy ended up engaged a year before we graduated a year later. I hadn’t kissed anyone since.
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