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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.
In 1558, when John Knox, the radical Scottish religious reformer, published his misogynist tract, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, he called attention to what was strangely true in the middle of the sixteenth century in Europe: a remarkable number of women had ascended to supreme governmental power.
Happy Reading!
Sarah
Oooh, THAT looks interesting...... [grin]
ReplyDelete"Early one evening in the autumn of 2010, my wife Margaret and I stood in front of Carlisle railway station in the far north-west of England with two loaded bicycles and a one way ticket from Oxford."
The Debatable Land - The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb.
It's another one I had to pause on because someone else at the library was waiting. Hoping to grab it again over Christmas vacation.
DeleteI was about to grab this one from the library but thought the cover looked familiar. Went to Goodreads and it is on my I Quit shelf...but I don't remember why I DNF-ed it. It seems like something I would love.
It's SLOW, but quite interesting. I expect to finish it tomorrow. You might like my next one. It's called 'Am I Normal?' [lol]
DeleteMaybe I will give it another try, if you also found it to be slow. That was likely my eason for DNF-ing, now that you bring it up.
DeleteI think we already know I am not normal, lol