Friday Linkups - The God of the Hive

It's Friday linkup time!  I'm linking up with the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer, Book Beginnings of Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, and the Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice

This Week's Book Blogger Hop Question:
In one sentence describe your passion for reading.

My Answer:
Reading is my constant.

This week's book is The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King which is about an elderly Sherlock Holmes and his wife Mary.  While Sherlock is much older and lives a quieter life he and Mary can't seem to escape mysteries!  This is a later book in the series which I've been reading since the beginning and always enjoy.  As well this continues a major mystery from the previous book, The Language of Bees.  Sometimes this series can be a touch dry but I always enjoy it and can't believe it's taken me months to get around to reading this one after loving the last book!

The Beginning:
A child is a burden, after a mile.
After two miles in the cold sea air, stumbling through the night up the side of a hill and down again, becoming all too aware of previously unnoticed burns and bruises and having already put on eight miles that night - half of it carrying a man on a stretcher - even a small, drowsy three-and-a-half-year-old becomes a strain.

My Thoughts:
This starts right after the previous book ends so I have a pretty good idea of what's going on here.  Seriously though,  even without the previous 8 miles carrying a guy on a stretcher carrying a 3 1/2 year old 2 miles would be pretty exhausting!

The 56:
The the world exploded in a racket of tearing metal and crackling trees, the scream of three human voices, and an unbelievable confusion of sound and pain and turmoil as we tumbled end over end and fell crying into the dark.

My Thoughts:
Well that sounds ominous!  I'm not quite here yet but it doesn't sound like things are going very well!

So what do you think?  Keep reading?