The Friday 56 (249) & Book Beginnings: Sabriel by Garth Nix

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. **Note: Freda @ Freda's Voice is taking a break from The Friday 56; Anne @Head is Full of Books is hosting for now.**

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...

Enter the Old Kingdom, a world of dark secrets and dangerous magic.

As a child, Sabriel was sent across the Wall to Ancelstierre to safety. Now eighteen years old, she receives a cryptic and desperate message from her father, the Abhorsen—the magical protector whose task it is to bind and send back to Death those who won’t stay Dead. Fiercely determined to help her father, who is perilously trapped in Death, and save him from the sinister Free Magic entity that has somehow ensnared him, Sabriel must prepare to enter Death herself—and find her destiny. To preserve life, the Abhorsen must enter death.

Beginning: "It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough."

56: "It had been human once, or human-like at least, in the years it had lived under the sun."

Comments: Its been a minute since I last participated in the Friday weekly memes. However, I really wanted to mention one of my more recent reads: Sabriel. I'm very late to the series, but I enjoyed it. What are you reading this week?