TGIF at GReads! {53}: Book Moments

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This Friday's Question:

Book Moments: What has been your favorite moment (scene) in a book that you've read so far in 2012? Please be kind & not include spoilers.

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In Honor by Jessi Kirby

It was a strange sensation, continuing to take in a breath, even as I dipped below the surface of the water. I concentrated on breathing slow and steady like Sam and Wyatt had both said, and the sound of the air moving through the hose made it easy to stay focused on that.

...When Wyatt's hand landed on a black line, he motioned for me to stop, and I realized we must've hit twenty feet.

...Our legs tangled languidly there in the dark, and we stayed like that, suspended vertically together, for a long moment before he peeled my fingers, one by one, off the rope. I let him, and when the last one was free, his hands went to my waist and gently pulled me back with him until I was lying back with my eyes to the surface. They caught a tiny light, waving down through the water, and then another and another. Stars twinkled in the pailing sky, sending light from the past all the way down to us.

...We were a constellation put in the sky-two people holding hands, floating peacefully above everything else, in a beautiful, perfect moment.

...Finn told me once that life sometimes gives you a tiny moment of peace when you need it most.

It's difficult to capture this moment in all it's beauty.  When I read this part of the story I remember having to take a break from reading, clutch the book to my chest, and allowed that moment to sink in.  Jessi Kirby does a fantastic job of setting the scene and this is just one of many examples throughout the book.  I adore this book, SO MUCH.  I cannot wait for you all to read it when it is published this May.

Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard

"Don't remind me." Rowan crosses his arms, the eye of his dragon [tattoo] peeking through his fingers. "Anyway, I have another apology-but you have to get in first."
"The hammock?"
"That's right."
I climb in beside him, playfully pushing his feet from my face.

...Mystified, I tip my head back.
I don't know how, but I forgot about the stars. They coat the sky like smeared wet sugar, so many the whole night seems to glow. When was the last time I looked up?

...After a moment, he reaches out. Because of the way we're lying, we can only hook our fingers together clumsily. It's more awkward than anything.

...Rowan grins at me, then closes his eyes. We sit there awhile longer, listening to the waves, the grackles trilling in the trees, the soft thump of reggae music from the bars down the street. I want to let go of his hand. But I don't want him to think anything's wrong.

Hammocks & Stars. One of the BEST moments I've read in any book.  The moment is full of so much swoon.  I highly recommend reading Wanderlove so you can read up to this point, and experience the beyond of it as well.  It's phenomenal.


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