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First Line Friday is a weekly feature and simple to do - grab the book nearest you and post the first line. Carrie hosts this over on her blog Reading is my Superpower.
As President-elect Abraham Lincoln's train prepared to chug noisily out of the Great Western Railroad Depot in Springfield, Illinois, on a cold, wet February 11, 1861, security officials far to the east worked overtime to prevent his aassassination.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"One minute before midnight on December 30, 2019, ProMED, a closely watched online publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, posted an article translated from Chinese media stating that twenty-seven cases of what was termed a 'pneumonia of unknown cause' had been found in Wuhan."
ReplyDeleteThe Plague Year - America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright.
I've been wanting to read this one, but I also now it will probably make me super angry all over again. Nebraska was one of the seven states where the governor was like, "Oh, it's fine, we not are going to shut down." Luckily the superintendent of my district was like, "Um, yes, school will start online for the Fall of 2020." It was insane.
DeleteMy favorite library branch has this one right now, so I will get it sometime today along with the other four that have come in for Eleanor and I.
It was VERY good. Very even handed too - LOTS of blame to go around!
DeleteGood, because there were A LOT of failures.
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