Teaser Tuesday - July 28 (wednesday again!)

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!

One side of the hut was crammed with garbage. 'Don't sneer at it!' warned David. @there's lots of good meals in there.'

Another teaser from Nicholas Crane's Clear Waters Rising - his account of walking across Europe along the mountain ranges. Things are getting serious, winter has arrived and he's got to the Alps. That teaser is from a diversion(?) up Mont Blanc.

Mutterings - July 28

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

1. Creaking :: Joints
2. Sipping :: Champagne
3. Honeymoon :: Hotel
4. Clang :: -ers (or maybe Die Ferne - an opera by Franz Schrecker - though I see it's Klang rather than Clang)
5. Delight :: Sunny - the power of branding, though I don't think I've ever had any, I should really be trying to think of Turkish
6. Blade :: Knife
7. Key :: Yale
8. Landing :: Knots (arrgh!)
9. Insufficient :: Weight
10. Slam :: Grand (bridge or tennis?)

Teaser Tuesday - Jul 22

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!

There was a car up ahead on one side of the road, its front end an accordion pleated around the engine block, and he pulled up behind it, his brights on, and ran to the driver's side to see if anyone was hurt. But the car was empty, empty with the emptiness of an abandoned house, and as he got back to the truck, soaked and shivering, he realised that he was at the Boatwright house, where cars were ranged around the drive and the lawn the way some people planted petunias.

Anna Quindlen's Blessings - our book group book of the month (one set in the summer going by our current set of themes). Nice imagery but those sentences are long (and they're typical or maybe even on the short side). I started off having problems parsing the information on the back cover - 'In a box is a baby and Skip Cuddy, the caretaker who finds her decides secretly to keep her.' my initial image being of Skip being a soft toy kangaroo! Early days yet will see how it progresses! Here's a review. (yes I know it's Wednesday!)

Mutterings - July 20

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

1. Scroll :: Herald
2. Mature :: Wine
3. Breakfast? :: Muesli!
4. Wrist :: Action
5. ___ is better ___ :: frustration (I have a song's rhythm going round my head but I can't remember the name - it's not 2 is better than one)
6. Better half :: Spouse
7. Note :: Minim
8. Worrying :: Fake (..concern, you have a worrying something when it just means I don't like it!)
9. Band :: Aid
10. Insipid :: Sauce

Teaser Tuesday - July 14

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'll have the same,' she sighed. She listlessly reached out her hand to take a roll, but Beatrice snatched away the plate. 'No you don't' she said. 'You wait till you get your own.'

Following a re-read of Maugham's Ashenden's stories I've moved on to his other short stories. This is 'The three fat women of Antibes' a lot of the stories are very much of their time but there some good story telling! You can read the whole story here I see it has recently been made into an opera - pass the cream cakes!

Mutterings - July 13

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

1. Stun :: Gun
2. Park :: Keeper (do they still exist?)
3. Five :: High
4. Slice :: of Life
5. Straight :: and narrow!
6. Neil :: Cartwright (boyhood friend of my brother)
7. Benchmark :: Testbed
8. Cilivized :: (or even civilized) Partnership
9. Today :: Redhead (the presenter of the BBC radio 4 programme of that name for many years and also lived near here)
10. Mortal :: Flesh (let all mortal flesh keep silent...)

Mutterings - July 7

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

1. Forgive and :: Forget
2. Midnight :: Chime (is this Bonhoeffer's Night voices from Tegel?)
3. Overcast :: Sky
4. Church :: Steeple
5. Banner :: Ad
6. Hybrid :: Car
7. Immoral :: Action
8. Sugar :: Blood
9. 1800 :: Napoleonic War
10. Futuristic :: Cityscape