#Friday56

The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice and the rules are simple:

• Grab a book, any book 
• Turn to Page 56 or 56% in your Ereader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
• Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
• Post the snippet to your blog and add your post url to the Linky at the host site

 Here on NH Book Notes I am adding the rule that the book has to be by a NH author.

From The River Road by Frances Parkinson Keyes:

"He was unaccountably restless all night, disquieted not only by his own tumultuous thoughts, but  by a variety of nocturnal sounds: the cricketlike chirp of toad-frogs, engaged on their amorous occasions in the disused sugar kettle beneath his window; the liquid trill of the mockingbird which had found daylight all too short for its throat-bursting jubilance; the lonesome wail of a freight engine hauling its mixed string of box and tank cars northward towards Vicksburg; the asthmatic chuff of the John D. Grace churning downstream from Baton Rouge to Plaquemine; and sharpening all these, the vicious whine of mosquitoes beyond the bars."