“I hope they don’t get the bad guys mixed up with the Landrys. Old fishermen and druggies pretty much have the same dress code.” MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
When we reached the van, I whispered, “Nana, get in and lock the doors. I’ll be back in a few minutes.”. She raised her eyebrow as she always did when questioning my sanity. I didn’t give her time to argue.”spiders.” I mumbled the first thing I could think of that my grandmother hated. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that […]
Eve barges right past the receptionist to confront her husband, Roarke, with some argument right while he’s in a high-powered meeting. “I’m sorry, sir,” Loreen began, nearly stuttering. “I couldn’t stop her.” “Don’t worry about it, Loreen. No one can. It’s all right. Go back to your desk.” MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be […]
“She’s lovely when she’s annoyed, isn’t she, Peabody?” (Eve’s husband, Roarke, says this about Eve.) “I’ve always thought so.” (Peabody, Eve’s assistant, hero-worships Eve.) MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
Jason had had an otherwise uneventful journey from Salzburg, with the exception that an old woman – for reason he never ascertained – yelled at him incessantly in French on the leg between Paris and Brussels Some of this travelog is entirely too realistic. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
While feeling awkward and anxious upon arriving at each o his previous destinations, Jason felt oddly relaxed now, as if he had found a way to commune with the gods of ritual. Pack, unpack. Train stations, hostels. Indeed he was in a new city in a new quarters with new people, but he found comfort in the consistency of it all, feeling that his surroundings were familiar somehow. And in a way, they were. His immediate concerns were a hot […]
(The Friar says) I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris Though has the strength of will to slay thyself, Then is it likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That cop’st with death himself to scape from it; And, if thou dar’st, I’ll give the remedy. Oh come one. You can’t really count […]
Liz took to working in the bookstore as if it was what she’d been born to do. She loved opening the boxes that arrived from the distributor — it felt just like Christmas morning. I am such a slow reader. Even my new glasses aren’t helping. There was a time that I would have read thirty book in the time I’ve spent on this one. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a […]
“I gather from Walker that King had a big family meeting scheduled for one night last week, but I spoiled his sneak attack by not going home that night.” Not a real quick read for me, but I’m enjoying it. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
In his experience, jewelry had a way of saying what mere words couldn’t express. And, he thought with a sigh, with any luck, she wouldn’t throw it right back in his face. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
“When I wrote the letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool, but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” One of the cool things about Jane Austin’s work is that it has all passed into the creative commons. That means it’s possible to get a copy for free. I got mine from the Free Books ap in iPad. They also have Shakespeare, Dickens, and James Joyce. I suspect I’ll be […]
“Oh! your father of course may spare you, if your mother can. Daughters are never of so much consequence to a father. This is said by Lady Catherine in an attempt to convince Elizabeth to extend her visit. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
“I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at the least.” MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for more detail.
Of course the universe isn’t really held in a little girl’s mind. It’s one small thread in a vast skein, separated from every other universe by a limitation of constraints and qualities, just as death is separated from life by the eternal nonreturn of the dead. MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, share a couple of “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. Go see Should Be Reading for […]
