The Friday 56 is a blog hop by Freda’s Voice and the rules are simple:

• Turn to the nearest book.
• Open it on page 56.
• Post a sentence or two.
• Join the linky.
• Go crazy on the linky.

“He had thumbed through the magazine more than once, put it down and picked it up again, and he kept returning to a full-page, dramatically lighted fashion photograph whose caption began ‘A frankly flattering, definitely feminine dress to go happily wherever you go…’ and whose subject was a tall, proud girl with deeper breasts athan he’d thought fashion models were supposed to have.”                                – Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates