Teaser Tuesday...and R.I.P.

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  Here's mine:
He was conscious now of danger - danger that might come to someone any minute now unless steps were taken to prevent it.  Serious danger.

Teaser Tuesday...Skippy Dies

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

here it is: Skippy Dies.
She lifts the books out of Howard's arms and aims her car key at the enormous white-gold SUV parked next door to Howard's dilapidated bluebird.  " See you tomorrow,' she says.
"Right," Howard says.
But she doesn't move, and neither does he: she holds him there a moment purely by the light of her spectacular eyes, looking him over with the tip of her tongue tucked in the corner of her mouth, as if she is deciding what to have for dinner.  Then, smiling at him coyly with a row of pointed teeth, she says, "You know, I'm not going to sleep with you."
 

Teaser Tuesday,.. The Crimson Rooms, Katharine McMahon

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:

I followed my brother across a plateau where a bitter wind howled and flashes filled the sky.  A sudden glare revealed churned earth and a monstrous coil of metal.  My brother marched ahead, immaculate in cap and pressed uniform.  I tried to keep up but floundered thigh-deep in mud.  Though I thrashed and scrabbled there was nothing to hold on to, neither root nor rock. 



I'm not having any difficulty continuing to read this one.

TOP TEN --- BOOKISH CONFESSIONS

After reading "Quietly in their Sleep", last week I should know you cannot divulge what is said in a confessional. But here it goes, I don't know that I'll come up with 10 things.  Top Ten is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

1.  I really am very prejudice about people who read sloppy romance, I'm so judgemental thinking their romantic lives might be jeopardy, oh wait, aren't I writing a romance novel?  Apparently the romance novel is the biggest seller.  Who knew? (according to my creative writing teacher/publisher) I've really fallen behind in this dept. 

2.  I hate when a book gets dramatized into a movie. Particularly if it's done poorly. I think movies should be movies and everyone who goes to see one should have to read the book first.

3.  I generally don't  read books that are highly publicized until the hoop la has died down, I want to make up my own mind.  Like 50 shades of grey,  were it not for Saturday Night Live, I probably would not even be interested. I particularly love Valorie Hart's version of the fifty shades of grey.(Valorie is a decorator, and fifty shades of gray are paint colours).

4.  I'm not big on Vampires and Werewolves. Even though my kids would read and watch this all the time, subsequently I read them too, makes for an enlightened conversation.

5.  I don't have a welcome sign in my house, because the vampires could come in if you welcome them.  Remember Angel of the Buffy series... "how did you get in here" Buffy, "there was a "all welcome" sign, Angel. I'm easily influenced by not so real important things that I read.  Like after reading The Stand, I figured I'm doomed, I can't ride a bike, or a Vespa.

6.  When I  read a review from a trusted blog, I immediately look in the library catalogue to see if it's available, and then I check Amazon.ca.  Just in case I need confirmation to add to my TBR list.

7.  I love reading review blogs and decide what to read, since I'm too short of time to peruse the library isle, our library is so busy with noisy kids. (not mine, they're angels) So I order on line and pick up from the hold isle which is really quick.  I started to do this to "walk to the library" but now I take a bus. Offers me the opportunity to read on the bus. I've gained some weight.

8.  If there is a book I want to read I usually wait a bit for a freebee copy at the painting studio.  Those people have way too much money, and some of them buy in large print, double duty, I then have a copy I can put in the "retiree library"

9.  I forget who recommends books I read, simply because I have no real system of recording it.  I mark off Shonna's books, she's the Canadian Book Worm just because Shonna finds the most interesting Canadian authors, but after that I tend to forget.  Sorry. And I really must try to record the source of the books I win.  It's so embarrassing.

10.  And the big one,  I don't read much my sisters read, we have such different tastes, so I feel orphaned.  Same mother, same father, I must have been abandoned and left on the door step.

Teaser Tuesday... The Story of Beautiful Girl

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's mine:  The Story of Beautiful Girl, Rachel Simon

The baby swallowed, making noises of contentment, and as Martha neared the dock, something atop a post at the far end caught her eye.  She tested the planks with her feet and moved out over the water.  As she and the baby neared, she saw that it was a hat.  No, a cap, just like the one her husband used to wear.  Just like the one she'd given to Number Forty-two.

Teaser Tuesday...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted byMizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's my teaser this week:
I need a break from Stevie King, so I've picked up another book to escape into. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro.

Laura kept up her performance all through the team-picking, doing all the different expressions that went across Tommy's face: the bright eager on at the start: the puzzled concern when four picks had gone by and he still hadn't been chosen: the hurt and panic as it began to dawn on him what was really going on.  I didn't keep glancing round at Laura, though, because I was watching Tommy:  I only knew what she was doing because the others kept laughing and egging her on.  Then when Tommy was left standing alone, and the boys all began  sniggering, I heard Ruth say: 

From Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro.


Didn't you just hate it when the teams were picked and you weren't the first to be chosen,  I hated it.

Teaser Tuesday... with a cup of tea

I feel like I should be drinking tea when I read the book The House at Tyneford.  We are in our second week of the read a long.  Elise is the Jewish refugee parlour maid.  Diana is a guest at Tyneford.  (Lady Diana Hamilton).  I think this series of sentences demonstrates a more realistic view of how a refugee parlour maid may have been treated in England at the start of WWII.  Up till this point we have seen her treated kindly.  My parents were refugees in England for a short time, and my mother hated it, she said she could not walk down the street without being spit at and cursed.  A major reason why they left England. 

 My teaser:
Diana's napkin sprawled at her feet once more.  The fabric on her dress must have been very slippery.  I knelt to pick it up and, as my fingers touched it, she moved her foot, pinning my skirt to the floor with a sharp heel.  I crouched at her feet, trapped like an idiotic pageboy I tugged at my skirt but she dug in farther, so that I could not free myself without making a scene.  After a half minute, she allowed me to sand and replace the fallen napkin onto her lap.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Teaser Tuesday...

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 My teaser from The Sandlwood Tree.

There is nothing more delightful than to sit in the sunshine, wrapped in an Indian shawl, & admire the distant peaks.  Those mountains!  When God gave us speech, he did not expect us to talk about the Himalayas.  They appear like a mirage, a hallucination painted on the sky & at the sight of them one can only bubble foolishly or remain silent.