Book Beginnings is a book meme hosted by Rose City Reader where participants share the first sentence (or so) of the book, along with initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice, and the rules are quite simple: Grab a book, any book and turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader. Find any non-spoilery sentence(s) and post.
This week’s book:
Title: When Dimple Met Rishi
Author: Sandhya Menon
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Publication Date: May 30, 2017
Summary (from Goodreads): A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married.
Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?
Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.
The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?
Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.
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I am absolutely loving this book so far! Dimple is so sassy and skilled, and I would totally want to be her friend in real life. The coding and technological aspects of this book are so interesting to me, since I haven’t seen too much of this in books. I am so excited to keep reading, since I have very high hopes for this story!
Book Beginnings
Dimple couldn’t stop smiling. It was like two invisible puppeteers, standing stage left and stage right, were yanking on strings to life up the corners of her mouth.
Friday 56:
“Okay,” Max said. “Now, for the part you’re all waiting for. The grand prize for this year’s Insomnia Con.” He paused, and the entire lecture hall held its breath. “Jenny Lindt will consider partnering with the winning team to make their app market ready and fund the advertising. Your app could go out into the world with the power of Meeting Space, Inc. behind it. Let that sink in.”
I’m excited to see what you think of this book once you’re finished reading it! Looking forward to your review! ;-D
I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited for a contemporary book! Need this one ASAP!
I know! I have bumped it up on my TBR to start it early. The cover alone just has me excited. I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
So glad you’re loving the book so far! I adored this one 😀 Thanks for sharing! <3
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
It is so super adorable! <3
This sounds like a delightful story. I’m curious about arranged marriages and how that works out for the couple, so I’m sure I’d enjoy this book.
My Friday post features Still Alice.
I’ve been hearing such great things about this book and this post makes me really excited about it! <3
Sounds like a great story. This week I am featuring One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews. Happy reading!
This isn’t one of my anticipating reads but I’d love to give this a try! 🙂
Sounds like a sweet read! Happy weekend!
I just finished reading In a Perfect World by Trish Doller so now I am super interested in books with arranged marriage themes. It is such an interesting concept! I can’t wait to check this out!
It really is an interesting and different type of theme! 🙂
I’m really looking forward to sharing this one! Thanks for sharing!
Lauren @ Always Me
Sounds interesting!
Reading is my favorite way to past time!
I’m glad you’re liking the book – I can’t wait to read this one and I always seem to enjoy books you enjoy. Happy reading! <3
Megan @ http://wanderingsofabookbird.blogspot.co.uk/
Can’t wait to see what you think of this book! I’m super excited to read it, and this post has me looking forward to it even more!
I am really loving this one! I have so many other books to read, so I am reading this one a little bit at a time. 😉 (This was in my spam for some reason, so I am sorry for the slow response!)
The Friday 56 sounds like a fun thing to do in a book ~ must try it
This sounds really fun. I might have to put it on my TBR. Here is the link to my Friday 56: https://coffeeandcatsblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/14/friday-56-30/
I’m soooo excited for this book!!!