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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.
Long before Europeans crossed the Atlantic and set foot on New World soil, lofty burial mounds dotted the American landcape.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
"Her contact stood with his back to the delicatessen window, in one hand the book with the green binding, in the other the spare pair of gloves."
ReplyDelete'The Red Eagles' by David Downing.
I've read something by him! -- "The Moscow Option", an alt-history history book about how Hitler becoming comatose from a plane changed the German strategy in Russia. Red Eagle sounds more like action-HF from the amazon blurb.
DeleteWW2 nuclear spying apparently........
Delete'Moscow Option' is on my interest list - esp as I often enjoy alt-history a LOT.
Delicatessen is a weird word.
DeleteFrom Wiki: Delicatessen is a German loanword which first appeared in English in the late 19th century and is the plural of Delikatesse. The German form was lent from the French délicatesse, which itself was lent from Italian delicatezza, from delicato, of which the root word is the Latin adjective delicatus, meaning "giving pleasure, delightful, pleasing".
DeleteAnd there is our language lesson for the day. Thank you! But it is still a weird word.
Delete"On the fine, bright morning in early May when the whole sensational affair of the Gwytherin relics may properly be considered to have begun, Brother Cadfael had been up long before Prime, pricking out cabbage seedlings before the day was aired, and his thoughts were all on birth, growth, and fertility, not at all on graves and reliquaries and violent deaths, whether of saints, sinners, or ordinary decent, fallible men like himself."
ReplyDeleteYours sounds interesting -- imagine there will be a strong role played by the Mississippi mound builders. If I ever visit St. Louis it will be just for Cahokia.
I am obsesed with Cahokia.
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