
If you go to Antigua as a tourist,this is what you will see.
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If you go to Antigua as a tourist,this is what you will see.
#firstlinefridays
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1. Working in a sawmill stacking timber age15
2. My daughter and I sell books and clothes etc on eBay
3 sometimes, I enjoyed the opportunity to work from home during and post Covid
#wondrouswednesday
@Eggshells
She never knew she was found by a man leading a footsore bull.
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Fat flakes blew into his face, cold wet kisses on his cheeks and eyelids.
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Oh no! I read this book years ago. On my recent flight home it was almost my first ever binge but j missed the last 20.minutes when we started landing.
While I knew it was only 6 episodes, I didn't know it had been cancelled! Now I have just caught up only to realise it's been left hanging .......
Found a Rushdie. Forgot that I had started a stack of books for this challenge.
Back from overseas and a yucky virus found me on the plane trip home 🏡 🙃
#authoramonth
I was born on an enchanted island.
Possibly the best first sentence ever!
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A heavy morning fog draped across Paris and there was the corner Cafe.
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She read up a storm before she left.
A book I just picked up from the hotel swap shelf!
#firstlinefridays #Amsterdam
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At daybreak Billy Buck emerged from the bunkhouse and stood for a moment on the porch looking up at the sky.
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A random plaque on a hill above the palace in Madrid lead me to Kate O'Brien. Love these random book discoveries.
Audie Palmer had never learned how to swim.
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Blackwater is set in my home state so I was keen to read it. It uses elements of our convict past to create a creepy Gothic/Stephen King type tale. Disconcerting
I never liked getting my hands dirty.
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I was at a dinner party in the summer of 1997.
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On a Saturday morning in early November, Guido Brunetti, reluctant to go outside, was at home, trying to decide which of his books to remove from the shelves in Paola‘s study.
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I forget why I went to Whistles that day.
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From the Court Column of the Daily Post,30th July, 1931.
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Yuletide Break Special Offer for High Achievers
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It was almost dark.
It‘s been a few weeks, as I have been overseas. Just finished the first chapter of this read-along.
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So new it isn't listed. Twisty tale set against a backdrop of lockdown. Read it in 2 sittings. In Melbourne for Easter break, very appropriate 📚
#ARC
Before I knew what they were about they had me off the 9.20 train from Harrow and on to the train named Corruption.
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An interesting if slightly depressing read. An emigrant and would be poet turned computer programmer struggles to reinvent himself in London.
The accused, Chelsea Liew, was in court.
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There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.
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I had spent the last ten minutes not doing any work at all.
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📚 Zig Zag Street by Nick Earls
✍️ Gabrielle Zevin, Markus Zusak, Zadie Smith
🎥 Zoolander
Band ZZ Top
🎵 Zanzibar by Billy Joel, Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
I was surprised to find a few favourites in ‘a‘
@CBee #manicMonday #letterz
📚 Y is for Yesterday
✍️ Yangtze Choo and Yasmin Boland (I studied English Lit with her at Uni)
🎥 You‘ve Got Mail
👩🎤 Yusuf Islam
🎵 [Mellow] Yellow, Yesterday
#manicmonday #lettery
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Just a bit late….
The Fergusons‘ door opened on a burst of light and voices, and onEvie‘s squeal of surprise -quite as if, Minna thought, we had turned up uninvited.
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#bookclub
1. Hard one - multitasking?
2. Family, my cat, art
3. Gardening, family history research
#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
Poignant tale with a long lost relative.
I was approaching sixty when questions about what it means to be happy assumed a special significance in my life, setting me on a new path that led to a careful re-reading of Jane Austen's six novels.
A long one!
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📚 Vanity Fair, Very Hungry Caterpillar
✍️ Veronica Henry, Victor Hugo
🎥 Vertigo
Band The Veronicas
🎵 Veronica by Elvis Costello
#ManicMonday #letterv @CBee
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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📚 Tagged book and Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas
✍️ Ursula Le Guin
🎥 UP!
Band U2 and UB40
🎵 Under the Milky Way by The Church
#manicmonday
#letteru
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‘We are at war!‘ cried Mr James Thistlewaite.
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And I've opened it. Amazing sleuthing by my #secretsanta. Love it, thank you so much ❤️💗💖
Happy Christmas to all!
📚 Tess of the D‘Urbevilles
✍️ Thomas Hardy, J R R Tolkien
📺 Ted Lasso
👩🎤 Taylor Swift, The Travelling Wilburys
🎵 Thunder Road, Tiny Dancer
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Miracle Giraffes Ride Hurricane at Sea
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This is my fat, mad teenage diary, volume 1 -1989.
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I hadn‘t heard of this, but we went to a live Hard Quiz show and Rae was one of the contestants. Very funny woman who lives locally. Curious so I borrowed from the library.