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Teaser Tuesday (July 20)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on July 20, 2010| 5 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

‘At our African camp we often have a problem with lionhairs on the chaise lounge,’ said Hannah defensively.

‘Lions are lounging on your lawn furniture, and the only things you’re worried about are the lionhairs?’

~Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen, p. 69

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Teaser Tuesday (July 13)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on July 13, 2010| 6 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

I recall the physical pleasure of coming to the end of my book and then daydreaming about the characters (if I liked them) for many days after, imagining their ongoing lives and other endings.  Now it seems impossible to find such periods of long calm.

~A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel, p. 157

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Teaser Tuesday (July 6)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on July 6, 2010| 8 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Mozart had died younger than Jane Austen, of course, but he had started young and had left the world hugely enriched by his prodigious output.  Imagine if Mozart had written nothing but six operas or six symphonies.

~Writing Jane Austen by Elizabeth Aston, p. 149

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Teaser Tuesday (June 29)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on June 29, 2010| 7 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Two years, I thought.  How fast it passes when you subtract vacation, time with the children, weekends, holidays, doctor visits; it becomes a year, and a year’s squandered in a blink.

~ Dear Money by Martha McPhee (p. 110)

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Teaser Tuesday (June 22)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on June 22, 2010| 12 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Lack of social skills: that was what made him a writer.  Nothing to do with talent whatsoever.

~Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance by Garrison Keillor, p. 121

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Teaser Tuesday (June 15)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on June 15, 2010| 13 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

‘When you are of age to think of settling,’ Elizabeth Kennedy urged her daughter in 1801, ‘let your affections be placed on a steady, sober, religious man, who will be tender and careful of you at all times…Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that ‘it is better to be an old man’s darling than a young man’s scorn.’

~The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery

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Teaser Tuesday (May 18)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on May 18, 2010| 1 Comment »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

What girls know is that everything good, honest, or true has a price, the payment of which – whether actual or anticipated – takes all pleasure away from goodness, honesty, and truth.  Boys do not function this way.

~Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord (p. 143)

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Teaser Tuesday (May 11)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on May 11, 2010| 5 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

‘I’ll tell you why they’re so scared,’ Isolde says.  ‘They’re scared because now she knows everything they know.  They’re scared because now they’ve got no secrets left.’

~The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton, p. 14

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Teaser Tuesday (May 4)

Posted in Persephone, Teaser Tuesday on May 4, 2010| 5 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

‘I am sorry to say it, Dolly,’ she said, ‘but in some ways it will be a good thing when you are no longer in the house.  It will not be so demoralising for the servants, at any rate.’

~Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey (p. 56)

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Teaser Tuesday (April 27)

Posted in Teaser Tuesday on April 27, 2010| 2 Comments »

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page.  Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

There were no other people at the spot and it was easy to imagine, when the sun started to go down and deer and echidna and paddymelon melted out of the bush, that they shared some secret with the land, that they and they alone lived in a way that set the precedent for all future campers.  The two most perfect people on the planet.

~After The Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld (p. 143)

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