The Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings): Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

 

  

On Friday's I take part in two weekly link ups - The Friday 56, currently hosted by Anne @ My Head Is Full of Books, and Book Beginnings, hosted by Rose City Reader.  For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook. Post it and share your post's url on Anne's most recent Friday 56 post. As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader.

Happy Friday everyone!  This week I'm spotlighting one of my 2026 Popsugar Reading Challenge books, Katabasis by R.F. Kuang.  I've heard amazing things about this one and I can't wait to read it for myself.

Beginning:

Cambridge, Michaelmas Term, October.  The wind bit, the sun hid, and on the first day of class, when she ought to have been lecturing undergraduates about the dangers of using the Cartesian severance spell to revise without pee breaks, Alice Law set out to rescue her advisor's soul from the Right Courts of Hell.

56:

She felt so stupid now.

Are you participating in this challenge?  Have you read this book?  As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting below!