This first line was too long to finger type. :D. The book is a doctoral thesis from the mid-70s.
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This first line was too long to finger type. :D. The book is a doctoral thesis from the mid-70s.
#firstlinefridays
#late
#insomniapost
Once upon a time, there lived twelve reasonably attractive princesses who, when lined up together, caused such a sight that the world agreed to call them beautiful.
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“Waking was floating to the surface of a soft world of water, not what Kai had expected.”
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"One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke."
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Shortly after Olivia went away with the Nawab, Beth Crawford returned from Simla.
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I wake up on houseboat wearing a trilby.
A street library find!
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"Lily Wilder's boots crunched through smooth gravel as she made her way from the barn to the lodge, surveying her favorite place on earth."
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"The ghost stories and strange tales that make up this book are set in the ancient Japanese province of Shinshu, or Shinano (now Nagano Prefecture), located in the center [sic] of Japan's main island of Honshu, a region intersected by three mountain ranges, mist-covered streams and a number of large and fast-flowing rivers."
At about ½ way through, the blurb descriptors of spine-chilling, spooky & terrifying ??
