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AnishaInkspill
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley
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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.

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ChelseaM6010
The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy
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My wound is my geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.

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AmyG Oh boy, is this a great book. 18h
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swynn
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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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ChaoticMissAdventures This book sounds devastating and interesting. 22h
swynn It's certainly eye-opening. Not that I was especially pollyannish about the quality of psychiatric care during this period in general, especially for BIPOC patients; but the religious component is a new thing to drop my jaw about. 13h
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TheBookgeekFrau
Remarkably Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt
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"Darkness suits me."

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Gissy Like that phrase👌 17h
TheBookgeekFrau @Gissy Right? 🤣 17h
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Teresereading
How Many Miles to Babylon? | Paula Fox, Handprint
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It was morning, and James Douglas awoke frightened.
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This was a reread for me. It‘s been on my shelves since I bought it at Birchall‘s Bookshop in Launceston five decades ago. While I know I was engrossed by it, I wonder what a young girl living in a small country town made of this tale set 16,000 km away in Brooklyn slum?

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Bookwomble
The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda
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"The android whose name was Boy set out on an adventure."

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Mirazzles I‘ve recently come across this one… how are you liking it thus far? 6d
Bookwomble @Mirazzles Well, I've overcommitted myself on Christmas books! so I've only read the first story, but that was good and I'm looking forward to getting properly into it once I've completed at least one other book! 5d
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AnishaInkspill
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#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

This first line is from the first short story in this collection written by Sylvia Plath. This she wrote when she was 8. The start of this story also feels like a line from a poem and is a couple of paragraphs long with all the story ingredients. It‘s ending is wonderful and amused me.

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swynn
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The thief walked through rolls of milky fog, advancing warily to the base of a wall that rose until the fog swallowed it; his chameleon-web bodysuit mocked the opaline mist until he was a pale shade in the shadows.

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