Friday 56

Rules:

* Grab a book, any book.

* Go to page 56.  Or 56% on your ereader. 

* Find a snippet, short and sweet.

* Post it and add the url to your post at Freda's Voice

My book this week is Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater.  Mr. Popper writes a letter to Admiral Drake (because he loves anything to do with the Arctic or Antarctic) who responds by sending him a penguin in the mail.  It is silly and goofy, and all sorts of impossible things happen.  Some people (especially children, for whom it is written) might find it cute.  But I had trouble with the fact that Mr. Popper paid more attention to the penguin than he did to his family.  So I had trouble liking Mr. Popper and therefore trouble liking the book.

My Friday 56:

The man who kept the barbershop had, up to this time, been a very good friend of Mr. Popper's.

I like this line.  You don't know exactly what is going to happen next, but you do know that afterward the man from the barbershop will not be a very good friend of Mr. Popper.