Thomas Albert Wrenfether was a man unusually exposed to fortune.
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Thomas Albert Wrenfether was a man unusually exposed to fortune.
#firstlineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
On a lake on the south coast, NSW
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@Cupcake12
Reading this while heading to the Tropic of Capricorn. Worlds apart!
Arrive finally at about three.
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The best way to spend election day!
Fingers crossed 🤞
Ballard and Jenkins rolled up on the house on El Centro shortly before midnight.
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All those years ago, in that sweltering city by the sea, Somnath Sunder Sonpate leaned against a bullock cart, scratching his nipples, which had turned red, as of recently, with an itchy rash.
Quite a long first sentence!
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Back in London with Maisie Dobbs. I can't believe it's the final instalment 😢
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@Cupcake12
Cat, coffee and a good read on a rainy Easter afternoon
The day the hotel changed forever began as any other.
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In the shadows of the Aberystwyth Castle, an amazing site we visited a few years ago
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@Cupcake12
#TBRpile
In my home state, Huon Valley Tasmania
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@Cupcake12
Dawn rose over Clew Bay and the small Irish village of Ballinacroagh.
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@ShyBookOwl
Hagworthy a mystical village - my current bus read 📚
Book 31/155
On a remote Scottish island (population 1) during th Highland Clearances
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@Cupcake12
#bookswithmaps 🧡
Book 30/155
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I wanted to write this book to bring back a lost world.
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And it has recipes!
Los Angeles - Malibu. The MC lives at Paradise Cove where we had a wonderful lunch in November.
It‘s been a while since I got into the Bosch Universe, so I have skipped about 10 titles with this one. But because of the streamed version, I‘m feeling up-to-date.
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@Cupcake12
The land was drained.
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So about 4 months ago I cracked 10000 litinfluences, and last night I hit 11000!
Mudlarking on the banks of the Thames
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@Cupcake12
Posting a bit late, but this where I ‘was‘!
Alison Dawson can never cross Old Kent Road without thinking of Monopoly.
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A great read, ends with an unknown so I'm hoping that means a new series.
pickSuperb memoir narrated by Noni. A delight to listen to ❤️
Playschool, The Sullivans, Monkeygrip, City Homicide etc etc.
One for the Aussies!
East End London
The first sentence places the FMC in Old Kent Road
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@Cupcake12
Excited to have grabbed this off the express loans shelf!
The night is as bright as day with star shells bursting and the muzzle flashes of the eight-inch guns on the heavy cruisers blowing the hell out of the Houston next to us, while the searchlights of the Japanese destroyers are lighting up our ship like a cinema screen.
A WW2 memoir
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You are holding in your hands a great American play. (Foreword)
No curtain. (Act 1)
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The large and luminous clock face of the otherwise lifeless Gare d‘Orsay had treacherously given the Paris night sky two moons so that I might be more easily seen by my enemies.
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so-soInteresting but complex. I enjoyed it but I think I prefer his historical fiction.
Walking the South West Coast Path while sitting in an sirport waiting for our flight 🏡
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@Cupcake12
You must leave as few clues as possible.
(And there‘s a cat called Trouble)
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It's summer in the Adirondacks
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Perhaps he‘ll die this time.
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pick@BookmarkTavern
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Contemporary story - a rural community working to protect one of their own against a backdrop of refugee experience and border policy. Recommended
In London ‘in the near future‘
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@Cupcake12
This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Cosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.
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Lovely to get some more Christmas #litsylove this week
Happy New Year
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pickLoving this, even though I haven‘t read all of the preceding titles. Bringing the title characters together in small town Crosby, Maine in a post pandemic world.
