Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week my teaser is from The Passage by Justin Cronin.
"She was a child. What would become of her, after he was gone? This girl who barely slept or ate, whose body knew nothing of illness or pain?" (244)
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week my teaser is from Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.
"Message Cleave
Skirt is demonstrably neither sick nor abscent. Appalled by management's blatently sizist attitude to skirt. Obsessive interest in skirt suggests management sick rather than skirt.
Jones
Hmm. Think will cross last bit out as contains mild accusation of sexual harassment whereas v. much enjoying being sexually harassed by Daniel Cleaver.
Aargh. Perpetua just walked past and started reading over shoulder. Just managed to press Alt Screen in nick of time big mistake as merely put CV back up on screen.
'Do let me know when you've finished reading, won't you?' said Perpetua, with a nasty smirk. 'I'd had to feel you were being unused.'" (22)
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week's teaser is from Faustian Economics by Wendell Berry which is an essay in The Best American Essays 2009.
"But foolishness on this scale looks disturbingly like a sort of national insanity. We seem to have come to the collective delusion of grandeur, insisting that all of us are 'free' to be as conspicuously greedy and wasteful as the most corrupt of kings and queens. (Perhaps by devoting more and more of our already abused cropland to fuel production we will at last cure ourselves of obesity and become fashionably skeletal, hungry but- thank God!- still driving.)" (26)
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week's teaser is from The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (which is about everyone's favorite TV character right now, Carrie Bradshaw).
"I rest my chin in my hands and stare at the typewriter.
Something good has to happen to me this year. It just does" (36).
Hmm, sounds like Carrie is warming up for her column in this pre-Sex and the City young adult book.
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This week's teaser is from Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden. I was given this book for a blog event later on today.
This is said by Wendy's mother to her when she is a child: "'The sooner you figure out how to deal with being a female in your father's family, the better.' I'd admired her covertly as she'd cinched a wide calfskin belt over her narrow black sheath, yanking it into an extra hole with a slight grunt. Her waist was smaller than mine and she made sure I knew it." (11)
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This week's teaser is from Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age by David M. Levy (which is blowing my mind right now).
"Clearly, texts have lives: they change over time, they aren't fixed forever in stone. We can't see this if we only stare at one manifestation, one particular application of ink to paper. But if we broaden our gaze to encompass the larger sweep of history, we can see that works on paper exhibit the same 'controlled movement' that Bolter wants to attribute to digital works" (45).
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This week's teaser is from Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh by Sheramy Bundrick.
"Playing house, were you?"Jacqui jeered. "All night long? I can't imagine why anybody'd want to sleep with that. Unless he has a really big-paintbrush!" (57)
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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This week's teaser is from Catching Fire by Suzanna Collins which I am rapidly moving through.
"Does everyone look younger asleep? Because right now he could be the boy I ran into in the woods years ago, the one who accused me of stealing from his traps. What a pair we were- fatherless, frightened, but fiercely committed, too, to keeping out families alive. Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other. I think of a hundred moments in the woods, lazy afternoons fishing, the day I taught him to swim, that time I twisted my knee and he carried me home. Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave." (117)
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This week's teaser is from I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing but True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog by Diana Joseph.
"Bruce Springsteen's mother may have taken out a loan to buy her son his first guitar, but I would do my son even better, I would use my MasterCard to buy him one. It wasn't cheap, but the kid at the music store said it was called a Baby Taylor, and he seemed excited that a mother would purchase such an instrument for her ten-year-old. This kid was pierce-lipped and unnaturally pale, he'd painted his fingers black, but his approval convinced me I had done right by my boy"(80).
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This week's teaser is from The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.
"It was storming on the beach, and two beautiful animals, a white horse and a golden eagle, were trying to kill each other at the edge of the surf. The eagle swooped down and slashed the horse's muzzle with its huge talons. The horse reared up and kicked at the eagle's wings. As they fought, the ground rumbled, and a monstrous voice chuckled somewhere beneath the earth, goading the animals to fight harder." (41)
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This week's teaser is from Wilkie Collins' Armadale.
"Put the mountain and the seas between you; be ungrateful, be unforgiving; be all that is most repellent to our own gentle nature, rather than live under the same roof, and breathe the same air with that man." (48)
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This week's teaser is from Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
"Like most children, I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it. But in my case of sacrificial effort I was thwarted." (10)
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This week's teaser is from The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen. I received this ARC as part of a TLC Book Tour for the novel. The following quote may appear differently in the corrected novel.
"He is over eighty years of age now. At any rate, sculpting is his preference." I forced a carefree laugh. "I think spending seven years on his back, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, soured him toward the brush." (63)
Come back on Thursday to check out my review of The Creation of Eve!
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This week's teaser is from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith.
"Mr. Bennet threw a look toward the front steps, which was now clotted with guffawing men stumbling from the manor house with half-filled glasses in their hands. Several stopped to gawk as they caught sight of the Bennet girls with their austere gowns and sheathed swords." (53)
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This week's teaser is from Aurora Floyd by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I'm about a fourth of the way into this book right now and I am quickly becoming obsessed with it. I've enjoyed the first part of the book even more than I enjoyed Lady Audley's Secret so I'm excited to see how the rest of the novel progresses!
"He could not help it! He loved her; not because he thought her better, or wiser, or lovelier, or more suited to him, than many other women,-indeed he had grave doubts upon every one of these points,-but because it was his destiny, he loved her." (75)
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I was swamped with homework the past couple of days so haven't started anything new, but today or tomorrow I will be starting Jacqueline Sheehan's Now and Then. Several bloggers have read this book and had positive reviews so I look forward to reading it!
"John lurched forward like a bear, arms wide, and too much weight on the front of his feet. They grappled for a long bit, holding each other like star-crossed lovers." (157)
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This week I'm rereading Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon for my Sensation Fiction class. I love this book! Honestly I like it more than The Woman in White although I think most people would disagree with that opinion.
"We hear every day of murders committed in the country. Brutal and treacherous murders; slow, protracted agonies from poisons administered by some kindred hand; sudden and violent deaths by cruel blows, inflicted with a stake cut from some spreading oak, whose very shadow promised- peace." (54)
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Since this weekend is Valentine's Day I decided to do a little bit of love reading I'm two thirds of the way through Love Letters of Great Women edited by Ursula Doyle.
"I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."
Abigail Smith Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776 (p. 51)
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This week's teaser is from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig. I've heard great things about this series and I can't wait to get into it!
"Wrapping his fingers around the contours of the globe, Richard lifted it up off its stand and shook it. And shook it again, thrilling to the unmistakable swish of paper. Rather a lot of paper, unless he missed his guess. Huzzah!" (152)
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This week's teaser comes from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
"These pages are not the record of my wanderings and my dangers away from home. The motives which led me from my country and my friends to a new world of adventure and peril are known." pg. 406
