Friday 56 #27

This is a fun meme to do hosted by Freda's Voice If you'd like to join on the fun go to The Friday 56 

 Rules:

 

 *Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it

 

Summary:

 

Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 399 pages (Hardcover)

Publication Date: September 5th 1992 by Modern Library (first published 1937)    

 

My 56:

 

I drove one morning from the farm to Nairobi. My mill on the farm had burnt down a short time before, and I had to drive into town many times to get the insurance settled and paid out; in this early morning I had my head filled with figures and estimates.

What's your 56?