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On the third day of their honeymoon, infamous environmental activist Stewie Woods and his new bride, Annabel Bellotti, were spiking trees in the #forest when a cow exploded and blew them up. Until then, their marriage had been happy.

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“In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.”

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I thought this was a cute #bestfirstline 😂 #24in48

“White people can be exhausting.”

I already know this book is powerful. Phew.

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Searching through my pile, I‘ve stopped at this one. If Douglas Adams is not intriguing and hilarious, I don‘t know who is. (Well, Sir Terry Pratchett was.) #bestfirstline #2ndchallenge #hour12 #24in48 #readathon

The trees were tall, but I was taller, standing above them on a steep mountain slope in Northern California.
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“They found him inside one of seventeen cauldrons in the courtyard, steeping in an indigo dye two shades darker than the summer sky.”

Sounds like the beginning of a mystery, but the man in question in a 93-year-old Turkish rug maker. This is mostly historical fiction.

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Heres the #bestfirstline for the #24in48 challenge. Now it doesnt get anymore interesting than that!

#bestfirstline from a book in my #24in48 stack.

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#24in48 #24in48readathon #hour12challenge “What is the #bestfirstline in your stack?”

From a fascinating book that I‘ve already started about medieval manuscripts: “At the end of this chapter I will recount how Pope Benedict XVI and the Archbishop of Canterbury both bowed down before me, on live television, in front of the high altar of Westminster Abbey.”