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Books of My Heart<p>🎧 Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner&nbsp;<br>@LisaGardnerBks <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/KirstenPotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KirstenPotter</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/RebeccaLowman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RebeccaLowman</span></a> @amleestories @PRHAudio <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/BantamBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BantamBooks</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@AudiobookMel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AudiobookMel</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/LoveAudiobooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoveAudiobooks</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;#4.5Hearts <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/policeprocedural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policeprocedural</span></a><br><a href="https://booksofmyheart.net/2025/01/10/%f0%9f%8e%a7-live-to-tell-by-lisa-gardner/?fsp_sid=555" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">booksofmyheart.net/2025/01/10/</span><span class="invisible">%f0%9f%8e%a7-live-to-tell-by-lisa-gardner/?fsp_sid=555</span></a></p>
Books of My Heart<p>What Time the Sextant's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/AlanBradley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlanBradley</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/BantamBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BantamBooks</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@sophiarose1816" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sophiarose1816</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/4Hearts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>4Hearts</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/SmallTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallTown</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a></p><p><a href="https://booksofmyheart.net/2024/09/01/what-time-the-sextants-spade-doth-rust-by-alan-bradley/?feed_id=3196&amp;_unique_id=66d43b9ea28b1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">booksofmyheart.net/2024/09/01/</span><span class="invisible">what-time-the-sextants-spade-doth-rust-by-alan-bradley/?feed_id=3196&amp;_unique_id=66d43b9ea28b1</span></a></p>
Robert Fairhead<p>Post #136 of my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/bookcovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookcovers</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/firstsentences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firstsentences</span></a> homage on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> is my secondhand copy of the 1946 <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BantamBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BantamBooks</span></a> edition of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/JohnSteinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnSteinbeck</span></a>'s <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TheGrapesOfWrath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGrapesOfWrath</span></a>.</p><p>I read this book during my classics catch-up phase in my late twenties, and it's one of my all-time favourites. However, Steinbeck seemed more sympathetic to the plight of the drought and debt-stricken Oakies forced from their lands than the Native Americans dispossessed before them. And I found his ending confusing!</p><p>But hey, it's still a classic, has a great cover, and a fine scene-setting opening paragraph:</p><p>To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try any more. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread any more. The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country.</p><p>Link to the post on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a>: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj6X5KNlkS8/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/Bj6X5KNlkS8/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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