It’s Tuesday again! You know the rules – open your current book, choose two sentences, don’t give away any spoilers. I’m currently reading two books, Legerdemain, by James Heaphey (pretty dry – I was hard-pressed last week to find a quote to use) and my commute book, The Watchman by Robert Crais. In this book, Joe Pike – sidekick in… Read more
I know, I know, I’m a little late with this one. But pity me – I spent nearly all day yesterday in meetings and on conference calls. No fun at all. This snippet is from my current book, Legerdemain by James J. Heaphey: “Her eyes swept over my body, giving the impression that it was the first time she’d been… Read more
This week was another difficult pick. I’m currently reading Anything Goes, John Barrowman’s autobiography. (If you aren’t a fan of Dr. Who, Torchwood or Broadway musicals, you might not be familiar with his work. But you don’t have to take my word for it – you can see here and here and here that he’s yummy.) There are so many… Read more
It’s Tuesday and time for another episode of…Teaser Tuesdays! This week, it was really hard to choose a passage! I’m reading Nation by Terry Pratchett and there is so much good stuff in here. But I decided to cheat just a bit and include 3 lines, because they’re short and they go together. So, from page 48: REPLACE THE GOD… Read more
Okay, you know the rules – just a couple of random sentences from one of my current books. This one looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. The book is Forgotten Fashion: An Illustrated [faux] History of Outrageous Trends and Their Untimely Demise. A little brain candy after some heavier books is just what I needed. Now,… Read more
Today’s Teaser comes from The Whiskey Rebels, historical fiction by David Liss, involving figures like George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. This is a LibraryThing Early Reviewer book, and I hope to have a review posted soon. You know the rules for the Teasers: open your current book to a random page and choose two lines (I fudge a… Read more
Just another little snippet of what I’m reading – thanks to Should Be Reading for being our host. Today’s Teaser comes from my current book, The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent. This snippet comes from page 192: The chief judge then asked Mother, “What do you say to this you are charged with?” Mother’s voice sounded loud and clear through… Read more
And now it’s time for another exciting episode of Teaser Tuesdays! You know how this works – post a couple of interesting lines from your current book. This week, I’m reading The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti, which is officially released today. Very, very good so far and I hope to have a review posted later this week. In the… Read more
Welcome to another episode of Teaser Tuesdays! In this exciting edition, S.J. ponders the subtleties of communication in New Orleans The speech patterns in certain New Orleans neighborhoods approach the complexity of Chinese in the shades of meaning that can be extracted from the tiniest gradations of inflection and timing. Sometimes these gradations can mean the difference between life and… Read more
Okay, I know when we talked about memes last week I said I was only doing one and that was enough. Well, I might have been wrong. Teaser Tuesdays is just too much fun to pass up. Here’s how it works: ? Grab your current read.? Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser”… Read more