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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or 
so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
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A Wildcatter’s Trek by Gene Ames Jr reads like a true story, told by a real oilman.
Think you know about the oil business, think again.
If you are a fan of the TV series, Dallas, A Wildcatter’s Trek by Gene Ames Jr will fill in some of the blanks and show how much oil people really contribute to technology, education, the arts…
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My 56
“And I want a home – a big home. Now. I’m not waiting any longer. I can’t stand this garage apartment. We’ve visited your oil field friends in their new stone mansions with huge lawns and gardens and white board fences that run around their property for miles. If you won’t build me a mansion, I’m going back to Oklahoma.”
( page 56, in paperback,1st edition, published in 2016)
Book Beginnings
THAT’S ONE ANGRY river, Jordan Phillips thought, standing in front of his truck loaded with oil well casing, looking across what seemed like a half a mile of fast moving, rolling brown water to the other side of the Sabine.
GOODREADS BLURB: A Wildcatter’s Trek: Love, Money and Oil tells the harrowing tale of Jordan Phillips, a young pipe salesman who risks everything to drill for oil in East Texas and discovers the largest oil field in the world by accident. The breathtaking core of A Wildcatter’s Trek: Love, Money and Oil is fully exposed as Jordan Phillips is unwittingly thrust into the brutal, never-ending race of the oil wildcatter. Fraud, greed and danger abound. Will Jordan survive?
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Sounds intense and exciting. Thanks for sharing, and enjoy! Here’s mine: “A MOTHER’S CONFESSION”
This one sounds interesting. Thanks for mentioning it. 🙂
Sounds like the perfect story for a native Texan! I’ve worked for major oil companies and for a wildcatter, too, so I’m curious about how those businesses are portrayed in this book. I’ll read it for sure!
My Friday post features The River of Corn.
Not sure this one is for me but I hope you love it! Happy weekend!
This sounds good and intense! I’m curious to see if the woman in the beginning gets her way.
I have never read a book like this before. I hope that you enjoy it! 🙂
Sounds intriguing!
Happy Reading 🙂
Hope you enjoyed this one. Happy Friday!
I like that opener – THATS ONE ANGRY RIVER. It says it all. Thanks for sharing this one.
Thanks also for visiting my blog so regularly. I really appreciate it.
I love the 56. Stick to your guns girl! 😉 Thank you for visiting my blog. I’d love for your readers to do so as well . . . http://tinyurl.com/LisaKsBookReviewsNFW
Not quite sure if this book is for me but I hope you are enjoying it 🙂
I used to love Dallas. This sounds like an interesting book.
Very intriguing, Sherry!
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Hope you are enjoying this book… Thanks for sharing!
Kind of makes me think of Giant. 🙂
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