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Book Beginnings on Friday is a weekly meme sponsored by Rose City Reader where one shares the beginning of a book.Here's mine:The Duke of Aliquid's hobby in life was philanthropy. He was an ardent supporter of almost every cause devoted to the relief of suffering or to the uplift of the human race. His big … Continue reading Book Beginnings and Friday 56
Every Tuesday Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where one shares the first paragraph or (2) of a book one has recently read, is reading or thinking about reading soon. Here is mine from Georgette Heyer's The Reluctant Widow:It was dusk when the London to Little Hampton stage-coach lurched into … Continue reading Tuesday Memes
Book Beginnings is a meme hosted by RoseCity Reader where one shares the opening of the book one is currently reading.Here's mine from Frantz Fanon's classic The Wretched of the Earth.National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is … Continue reading Book Beginnings and Friday 56
Every Tuesday Bibliophile by the Sea hosts First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, where one shares the first paragraph or (2) of a book one is reading or thinking about reading soon. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:• Grab your … Continue reading Tuesday Intros and Teaser Tuesdays
Book Beginnings is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader in which one shares the opening of a book while The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice where one shares a couple of sentences from page 56 of any book.Today both my entries are from The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell.Here's … Continue reading Book Beginnings and Friday 56
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:• Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give … Continue reading Teaser Tuesdays and Tuesday Intros
Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader where one shares the opening lines of the book one is currently reading.Here's mine:That sunny September day was full of surprises.The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice in which one shares a couple of sentences from page 56 of any … Continue reading Book Beginnings and Friday 56
Book Beginnings is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader in which you share the first sentence of the book that you are currently reading.Here's mine from Anthony Gilbert's The Body on the Beam:During the spring of last year the police were greatly perplexed by a violent death occurring at No. 39 Menzies Street.In Friday 56 … Continue reading Book Beginnings and Friday 56
Book Beginnings on Friday @ Rose City Reader is a weekly meme where you share the opening sentence of the book that you are currently reading.Here's mine from Mysteries by Knut Hamsun.In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began happening in a small Norwegian coastal town.
Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel was perhaps the first popular adult novel that I read. And boy was it a revelation. I loved the story of the two dogmatic men and thought Archer was simply great. That view came crashing down with the next book that I read of his: A Matter of Honour. I … Continue reading Forgotten Book: Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
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