rockstarswrite - Tumblr blog

[rockstarswrite]

One of my earliest memories is sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table, eating a bowl of cereal while my brother and my dad ate their own cereal. The calendar was about to turn over to 1970 and my brother, twelve at the time, was confused how to write the new year. All of his prior experience writing the year ended with 60-something, like 1965, and the introduction of the 70's confused him. Come to think of it, he was a little ahead of his time being confused by the 70s, wasn't he?

[rockstarswrite]

The opening words from books.

The Women

by Kristin Hannah

published by St. Martins Press

~~~

Coronado Island California

May 1966

The walled and gated McGrath estate was a world unto itself, protected and private. On this twilit evening, the Tudor-style home's mullioned windows glowed jewel-like amid the lush, landscaped grounds. Palm fronds swayed overhead; candles floated on the surface of the pool and golden lanterns hung from the branches of a large California live oak. Black-clad servers moved among the well-dressed crowd, carrying silver trays full of champagne, while a jazz trio played softly in the corner.

Twenty-year-old Frances Grace McGrath knew what was expected of her tonight. She was to be the very portrait of a well-bred young lady, smiling and serene; any untoward emotions were to be contained and concealed, borne in silence. The lessons Frankie had been taught at home and at church and at St. Bernadette's Academy for Girls had instilled in her a rigorous sense of propriety. The unrest going on across the country these days, erupting on city streets and college campuses, was a distant and alien world to her, as incomprehensible as the conflict in faraway Vietnam.

[rockstarswrite]

Daughter of Mine

by Megan Miranda

published by S&S/Marysue Rucci Books

Available in hardcover, ebook, and unabridged audio download

From the Simon & Schuster website:

When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.

* * * * * * * *