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e Sentence Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Rebeca at “Books and Messy Buns”. Anyone can join, you just have to do the following:
- Pick up the book you’re currently reading (or read last)
- Think about what it made you feel so far
- Describe it in one sentence
- Share your sentence, book title and author with the book community 🙂
Note: Please refer the host of the meme (this blog/this post) in your own post and leave a comment down below with a link to your 1SW so all the participant can have a look and share their thoughts too!
My Sentence:
“You know how the first book in a triology is always amazing and then the second one is just not quite there? This was the exact opposite!”
– about Hollow City by Ransom Rigg
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The Line: “Do not,” thunders St. Jerome, in AD 403 in a letter to one Laeta, concerning her daughter Paula, “do not dye her hair red, and thereby presage her for the fires of hell”.
My thoughts: And I thought it was odd the Irish wouldn’t let red heads step first through the door at New Year!
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I had no idea about the Irish thing, does it still happen??? 😮
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Oh, God no. Well, not in my fam. No one would get in the house! But there are a lot of old tales about what red hair means. Red hair sprang up pretty spontaneously in diverse populations – suddenly gingers! XD
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Oh ok ok hahaha I’d love to be a red hair, I think it’s so beautiful!! You’re lucky 🙂
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Ah! My *sister* is lucky. I came out more blonde than red. But I agree that red hair is a beautiful thing! (Not a curse. Or a sign of terrible-bad luck. Or floods. Good grief!)
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