The Friday 56 (230) & Book Beginnings: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice where every Friday you pick a book and turn to page 56 or 56%, and select a sentence or a few, as long as it's not a spoiler. For the full rules, visit the the page HERE

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading.

Synopsis from Goodreads...

The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.

Beginning: "There are few views that can draw noses to airplane windows like those of the Great Lakes."

56: "Applegate learned that spawning lamprey preferred streams with bottoms peppered with gravel that had a diameter no smaller than three-eighths of an inch and no bigger than two inches, and they typically did no migrate up those streams until early spring, when the water temperature rose above 40 degrees."

Comments: I finally read Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. I loved this book! It was such a fascinating look at the Great Lakes. What are you reading this week?