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First, let me get one thing straight: I'm not a terrorist. I'm gay.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
First, let me get one thing straight: I'm not a terrorist. I'm gay.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
“Ham and pork had been made into ravioli with cheese, flour, clove, ginger, and laid with the chicken sausage between layers of pastry, dates and almonds. The whole dish had then been shaped into a pie and was being covered with dough…”
I don‘t understand this dish!! Ravioli and sausage layered with pastry, dates, and almonds, and made into a pie?! What is this carb-laden extravaganza?!
Here‘s my next #ChunksterChallenge2023 pick, and this month‘s #BookSpin! At 650+ pages, this is a “Chunkster Mini” (but it definitely doesn‘t FEEL mini!). I picked up the huge old library discard copy at a library book sale when I was in grad school, in the early 2000s. Then a few years back, my husband bought me the paperback, not realizing I already owned a copy! The hardback will be my “home” copy and the paperback for reading out & about.
The beginning of a new series historical fiction at its best by the wonderful author Joseph O‘Conner .
"Family. The greatest loyalty after God."
"There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write."
"The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
#politics #government #nonfiction
pickI‘m used to her more recent work like The Alice Network, but this story of the Roman Empire was a good read. Emperors, royalty, slaves, gladiators…and all the ways their lives are intertwined.
