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“The fifteen clerks taking their lunch break in the counting house of the Spencer & Son Shipping Company almost choked on their food. There at the door stood Sibylla Spencer, visibly out of breath and pressing an envelope against her chest as she looked from one startled face to the next. The boss’s twenty-three-year-old daughter normally visited only once a year, when she and her stepmother distributed Christmas presents. Yet it was not Christmas but the middle of June. It did not bode well that Sibylla had appeared unannounced, distraught, and, it would seem, unaccompanied in the rough masculine world of the Port of London. At least this was what Mr. Donovan, the lead accountant, feared. He stepped away from his desk with”
― Julia Drosten, The Lioness of Morocco

“います。 ジェーン・オースティンの書いた本のいくつかがあります。 感覚と感性(1811) 「プライドと偏見」(1813)。 マンスフィールドパーク(1814年) Emma(1815) northanger修道院(1818年、彼女の死の後印刷されています) 説得力(1818年、彼女の死の後印刷されています) 女性スーザン(1794、1805)。”
― Jane Austen, Emma - Japanese Edition - Annotated: Japanese Edition - Annotated

“adrenaline-fueled nightmare, which moved so fast I had to hold onto the book with both hands. But underneath all that intensity beat the heart of a damn fine writer. Someone who could turn a phrase, slip in some subtext, make the reader really care. Desert Places will give you nightmares. But it will also move you in ways you didn’t expect. How much do I admire his”
― Blake Crouch, Desert Places

“Thirty, forty miles?”  “Well,” said Lila, verbally pouting. “I guess we’d better settle in for a long trip.”  She pushed her body even harder against Raj, then glared at the side of her father’s head. Lila and Trevor got along with Meyer, but they were still teenagers. Piper, recently a teen herself, tried to understand, but often there was no use. Somewhere around your twenty-second birthday, teenagers started sounding like melodramatic idiots no matter what you did.  “That’s another reason to get a hotel room,” Piper said. “They might let planes fly again. We can take the Gulfstream.”
― Sean Platt, Invasion