{"id":101,"date":"2026-04-24T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2026-04-26T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:37:59","slug":"first-line-friday-friday56-1-people-we-meet-on-vacation-by-emily-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"First Line Friday & Friday56 #1: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to my very first First Line Friday<\/strong> & Friday56<\/strong>! I found this blogging feature at bibliophilebree<\/a> and wanted to join. This actually consists of two weekly features, First Line Friday<\/strong> was started by Reading is my Superpower<\/a> and is going strong since 2016; while Friday56<\/strong> was started by My Head Is Full Of Books<\/a>. The goal is to connect with other book bloggers and find new books for your tbr. It also doubles as a fun & easy way to provide weekly content for me. I’m excited to see where this takes me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

first line friday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

rules: <\/strong>
Grab the book nearest to you (or one you want to read) and leave a comment with the first line.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

first line:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On vacation, you can be anyone you want. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I literally started this book today, only a few hours ago. I obviously watched the movie adaption on Netflix in January but didn’t feel the urge to read the book until the warmer months came around. So far I am liking it! The protagonist has an outgoing personality and the author’s humor always cracks me up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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friday56<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

rules: <\/strong>
– Grab a book, any book
– Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)
– Find a snippet, but no spoilers!
– Post it to your blog and add your url to the Linky. If you do not add the specific url for your post, we may miss it! 
– Visit other blogs and leave comments about their snippets. Expand the community. Please leave a comment for me, too!  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She breaks suddenly from her reverie and reaches for her keyboard. She types for a minute, then scratches her chin as she reads something on her screen. “Of course, we’d have to wait to use that for the winter issue. The summer’s low season.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

synopsis<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Emily Henry<\/strong>
People We Meet On Vacation<\/em>
388 pages (paperback)
May 2021
Berkley Romance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poppy and Alex.<\/strong> Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She\u2019s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart\u2014she\u2019s in New York City and he\u2019s in their small hometown\u2014but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven\u2019t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she\u2019s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together\u2014lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Welcome to my very first First Line Friday & Friday56! I found this blogging feature at bibliophilebree and wanted to join. This actually consists of two weekly features, First Line Friday was started by Reading is my Superpower and is going strong since 2016; while Friday56 was started by My Head Is Full Of Books. The goal is to connect with other book bloggers and find new books for your tbr. It also doubles as a fun & easy way to provide weekly content for me. I’m excited to see where this takes me! first line friday rules: Grab the book nearest to you (or one you want to read) and leave a comment with the first line.  first line: On vacation, you can be anyone you want. I literally started this book today, only a few hours ago. I obviously watched the movie adaption on Netflix in January but didn’t feel the urge to read the book until the warmer months came around. So far I am liking it! The protagonist has an outgoing personality and the author’s humor always cracks me up. friday56 rules: – Grab a book, any book– Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)– Find a snippet, but no spoilers!– Post it to your blog and add your url to the Linky. If you do not add the specific url for your post, we may miss it! – Visit other blogs and leave comments about their snippets. Expand the community. Please leave a comment for me, too!   page 56: She breaks suddenly from her reverie and reaches for her keyboard. She types for a minute, then scratches her chin as she reads something on her screen. “Of course, we’d have to wait to use that for the winter issue. The summer’s low season.” synopsis Emily HenryPeople We Meet On Vacation388 pages (paperback)May 2021Berkley Romance Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She\u2019s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart\u2014she\u2019s in New York City and he\u2019s in their small hometown\u2014but every summer for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven\u2019t spoken since.Poppy has everything she should want, but she\u2019s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows without a doubt it was on that ill-fated final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together\u2014lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? Goodreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9,13,14,15],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges","tag-emily-henry","tag-first-line-friday","tag-friday56","tag-people-we-meet-on-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaptersandscepters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}