
"The alarm clock woke me this morning at the ungodly hour of eight."
Indeed it did, though it was six for me...
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"The alarm clock woke me this morning at the ungodly hour of eight."
Indeed it did, though it was six for me...
#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl
@Birdwing @Gatita play along! ?

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl. A fire that destroyed the city‘s oldest Negro church has led to the discovery of a wild slave narrative that highlights a little-known era of American history.

They were full of envy at the office when Meg told them she was going to Australia for a month on December 11th.
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A delightful collection stories with some set in Australia.

"Leonard was raised by his mother alone with cheerfully concealed difficulty, his father having died tragically during childbirth."
A rather late #FirstLineFridays offering ⌛ @shybookowl

"My name is Otto Ringling, ( no circus jokes, please) and I have a strange story to tell."
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I‘ve been looking forward to this one for #2026Reads. Thanks @RamsFan for lining this up for #ClassicLSFBC, I've been meaning to read it for a few years but I never got around to it. I‘ve read the first 2 chapters and just want to say: ‘Oh Ford'.
This is also one of 111 books for #192030, 1932 prompt.

In the summer of 1889, hundreds of Black residents of Liberty County, Georgia, congregated in daily worship on rough-hewn benches arranged beneath the branches of two moss-covered live oak trees near Walthourville.
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