Teaser Tuesday: Room

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week's teaser comes from the novel Room by Emma Donoghue.

"If I had my head out of Wardrobe, there'd be Door opening, I bet I could see right into the stars and the spaceships and the planets and the aliens zooming around in UFOs.  I wish I wish I wish I could see it." (page 47)

Teaser Tuesday: The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week's teaser comes from The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life From Your Books by Steve Leveen.  

"You probably already have some books at home that you plan to read.  I suggest that you expand this to a whole new level: a to-read library in which you gradually accumulate shelves of books, in different categories, that you plan to read - a Library of Candidates that evolves from your list." (page 16)

Well, that certainly makes me feel better about owning books I haven't yet read!  :)

Teaser Tuesday: Whiskey Sour

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.




This week's teaser comes from Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath.

"'There were four black and whites already at the 7-Eleven when I arrived.  Several people had gathered in the parking lot behind the yellow police tap, huddling close for protection against the freezing Chicago rain.  They weren't there for Slurpees." (page 1)

Teaser Tuesday: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.




This week's teaser comes from The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.

"I detected instantly that she didn't like me.  It's a fact of life that a girl can tell in a flash if another girl likes her." (page 85)

Teaser Tuesday: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

 My teaser this week is from Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout:

"He was as much a stranger up here now as any tourist might be, and yet gazing back at the sun-sliced bay, he noted how familiar it felt; he had not expected that.  The salt air filled his nose, the wild rugosa bushes with their white blossoms brought him a vague confusion; a sense of sad ignorance seemed cloaked in their benign white petals." (page 31)

Teaser Tuesday (May 18): The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

My teaser is from Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:

"The cells were growing, but Mary didn't think much of it - other cells had survived for a while in the lab.  But Henrietta's cells weren't merely surviving, they were growing with mythological intensity." (page 40)

Teaser Tuesday: The Wilderness (April 6, 2010)

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

My teasers this week are from The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey.

"Dogged by these uncertainties, willing her ghost to come, he rid the house of milk, knowing Helen's near phobia of it.  For months he settled for black coffee and found himself remembering those days, so far back - before Alice's birth - when she did drink it, when she loved it, when her freckled skin itself was like cream dusted with cinnamon, when she would tell him his eyes were washed with milk, and when she loved the cherry blossom that curdled on the branches."  (page 35)

Teaser Tuesday: A Short History of Nearly Everything

This is my first Teaser Tuesday!

Teaser Tuesday 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 "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:

"Even at speeds approaching those of light, these are fantastically challenging distances for any traveling individual.  Of course, it is possible that alien beings travel billions of miles to amuse themselves by planting crop circles in Wiltshire or frightening the daylights out of some poor guy in a pickup truck on a lonely road in Arizona (they must have teenagers, after all), but it does seem unlikely."

page 27, Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything