Teaser Tuesday - Aug 27

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author 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!

How could I ever have been glad he wasn't here anymore?' Fresh tears flowed as she looked up again at Nell, seeking her understanding, her forgiveness.

Margaret Dickinson's Pauper's Gold - our current BATS (book group) book - based locally in the mills of Macclesfield and Derbyshire in the 1800s. A little predictable but a good read.

Mutterings - August 25

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. 64 :: power of 2
2. Dark :: Knight (I've never seen the film - the power of advertising!)
3. Honor :: Maid of (or Blackman)
4. Crystal :: Maze
5. Postscript :: Print (postscript is a printer page definition language)
6. Things :: aint wot they used to be
7. Fever :: Swamp
8. Bare :: Knuckle
9. Thump :: Volume (something about a hefty tome thumping onto the desk I think)
10. Point of view :: Robinson (various Robinsons used to present this BBC TV programme)

Mutterings - Aug 18

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Games :: Olympic
2. Fame :: Spur
3. Construct :: Language
4. Pants :: Knickers
5. Outlier :: Column (or something architectural)
6. Column :: Doric (I don't think my eyes had strayed down on the previous line!)
7. Circus :: Ring
8. Remedy :: Medicine
9. Other :: Numinous
10. Outlet :: Tap

This looks to be last weeks list again, maybe this blog entry will be updated!
And it was so here's the real list! -

1. Karma :: Chameleon
2. Detail :: Attention (to)
3. Conversation :: Piece (probably the Noel Coward play)
4. Optimistic :: State
5. Social :: Circle
6. Approval :: Stamp
7. Tab :: Ctrl-I
8. PM :: 5 (a BBC news programme 5 pm)
9. Share :: Certificate
10. Cheat :: Liar

Teaser Tuesday - August 13

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author 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 had become and Episcopalian in the first place because the Anglican way cared more for common prayer than right belief, but under stress even Episcopalians began vetting one another on the virgin birth, the divinity of Jesus and his resurrection from the dead. Both in Clarkesville and elsewhere, the poets began drifting away from the churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.

Barbara Brown Taylor in Leaving Church. I picked this up at a garden party bookstall a few weeks back -a story of a spiritual journey and so far I think it's rather good. She's speaking at Greenbelt at the end of this month...

Mutterings - August 11

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Games :: Olympic
2. Fame :: Spur
3. Construct :: Language
4. Pants :: Rubbish
5. Outlier :: Defence
6. Column :: Nelson's (followed closely by Trajan's)
7. Circus :: Piccadilly (afraid I'm now on a London thread!)
8. Remedy :: Medicinal
9. Other :: Spectral (the other)
10. Outlet :: Water

Teaser Tuesday - Aug 6

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author 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!

The garden was in bloom and we had a maypole with garlands all the way up to the little banner at the top. But it was too bad that we never had any wind.

Tove Jansson The Summer Book. Last year the book group read Jansson's The Winter Book - for various reasons I was persuaded against choosing this one but it's so much better! A lovely tale of a small child and her grandmother in among the islands of the gulf of Finland. Very much recommended!

Mutterings - Aug 4

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Weird :: Sisters (probably Macbeth rather than Harry Potter!)
2. Balance :: Scale
3. Personal :: Introduction
4. Reproduction :: Sex
5. Distraction :: Memory
6. Articulate :: Confident
7. Shovel :: Snow
8. Column :: Doric
9. Drastic :: Cleaner (a make of cleaning material - I think!)
10. Bombastic :: General