The Friday Six 11

Happy Friday!

Today I'm participating in six blog hops.  You can click on the host links below to find the blogs of others who are participating in each blog hop. If you're a blogger, feel free to join through the host links.

BOOK BLOGGER HOP, hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer

Question: Can you suggest a book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

My response: I think everyone should read Being Heumann: The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judy Heumann, at least once. Unless you're disabled and have had personal experience, there is so much the world does not know about disability rights. In fact, as a disabled person myself, I learned so much from reading this book. What activists, like Judy Heumann, have gone through to get to where we are today (and how far we still have to go) would surprise many people. It's an important part of American history that isn't typically taught in schools. 

FIRST LINE FRIDAY, hosted by Reading is My Superpower

FRIDAY 56, hosted by My Head is Full of Books

BOOK BEGINNINGS, hosted by Rose City Reader

Today's excerpts are from the e-book format of Crime and Parchment (Rare Books Mystery 1), by Daphne Silver.

Here is the beginning:

My 1965, robin's egg blue convertible backfired as I parked in front of the Wildflower Inn.

And here is an excerpt from 56%:

"Juniper, great, great. Will you put these up around town?" I took the top one and looked over the details. The search party was going to start in the early afternoon around the cemetery.

Daphne Silver won the Agatha Award with this book for Best First Mystery Novel at the Malice Domestic Convention earlier this year. It is set in a small Chesapeake Bay town in Maryland. Juniper's brother-in-law claims that the covers of the Book of Kells are in Rose Mallow, Maryland. Having learned about the Book of Kells last year, Juniper, a rare books librarian, is very interested in this claim. So she heads back to Rose Mallow, where she hadn't been since the passing of her grandmother, to find out if this is true. This leads to another discovery - a dead body.

I'm about 90% through this book and plan to post my review on Tuesday. I hope you'll stop by then and read my thoughts on Crime and Parchment.

FELINE FRIDAY, hosted my messymimi's meanderings

Fiona is in the spotlight today. They are not allowed in the bedroom at night because I can't take a chance on them attacking my feet, but during the day I wear indoor-only shoes. So this week when I've been taking daytime naps, I've allowed them in the bedroom. Bell usually chooses to stay in the living room, but Fiona has been snuggling up next to me.

NATURE FRIDAY, hosted by The LLB Life

We had fall-like temperatures this week, so I finally made it out for some walks. On my first walk of the week, I stumbled upon this fairy community!