The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Welcome to The Friday 56, a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice.

These are the rules:

1. Grab a book, any book.

2. Turn to page 56, or 56% on your eReader.
3. Find any sentence (or a few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
4. Post it.
5. Add the URL to your post in the link on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.

I'm also taking part in Book Beginnings, a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader.  The rules are pretty simple - you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires.  Don't forget to link up your post's url with Rose City Reader.

This week I'm spotlighting Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.  I know, I know - I'm way behind on this one and I have no idea why I had been putting it off.  Anyway, this is the first book I'm reading in YALSA's Backlist Bingo Reading Challenge - either way it's about time I start this!

Beginning:

He'd stopped trying to bring her back.

56:

The batteries started to die at 1 A.M.. but Eleanor kept listening for another hour until the voices slowed to a stop.