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I want to tell you the circumstances in which I first encountered Hannibal Lecter.

Red dragon - Thomas Harris
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I am Inca, a super-duper cat detective. I have chosen to do a review on my first children's book, Cat Detective in The Korean Peninsula by R.F. Kristi.
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One could begin with the dust,the heat and the purple bougainvillea
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'It wasFelling night, and the usual crowd had gathered at the Waystone Inn.'
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It took a lot to get my attention that day
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" "Can you come into my office?" I look around at the desk beside me and then back at Frankie, trying to confirm to whom, exactly, she's talking." -- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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It started with a ringing phone.


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"Taking that first drink or drug is like having sex with a gorilla. It's over when the gorilla says it is."
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"Ugh...my head," Joshua grumbled as he felt a throbbing pain spike through the side of his head.

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In the waning hours of a presidency that was destined to arouse less interest from historians than any since perhaps that of Willian Henry Harrison (thirty-one days from inauguration to death), Arthur Morgan huddled in the Oval Office with his last remaining friend and pondered his final decisions.

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I'm currently reading Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali. The first sentence is:

"I'm in the water."
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I really can't recall but the book is definitely getting a 4 out of 4 rating.
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"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains." - "Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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On the last day that the town of Beckettsville would ever know, the weather was so fine you could see all the way to the soft blue skin of the horizon.

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My dad’s part of the family always asked me if any of the men my mother brought home had touched me inappropriately.
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