Mutterings - 28 Dec

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

1. Binge :: Drinker
2. Static :: Variable (a computer language connection!)
3. Pivotal :: Moment
4. Single :: Mum
5. Awakens :: (Christmas?) Morning
6. Cute? :: Pet
7. Theme song :: Raucous
8. Resolution :: New Year
9. Kitten :: Tea (I hadn't seen the next word on writing this, I was thinking of this site
10. Coffee :: Bean

Teaser Tuesday - Dec 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!

Lenin gave up his post at the doorway, placed himself between his father's knees and picked his nose.
'What about a poem from you, young man?' Chacko said to him.

Another teaser from Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things - I last teased it here this book has lurked well down my reading pile for rather too long and alas I've rather lost the narrative thread or it's just too confusing? Last time I seemed to be rather enjoying it..now I'm just confused. When I've finished I will take myself to wikipedia and see if any light dawns!

Mountain scene

Just to redress this warm weather here's a snowy terragen scene, snow and some nice (IMHO) erosion.



Mountain looks a bit too much like a frog though?

And another shot from elsewhere in the landscape:

Mutterings - Dec 21

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

1. Fair :: Weather (friends?)
2. Skull :: Crossbones
3. Expertise :: Delicate
4. Lines :: Parallel
5. Breasts :: Turkey (need to get some...)
6. Cabinet :: Pudding (I shan't comment about the one ruling the UK)
7. Robe :: Purple (a hymn..)
8. Bob :: Doubles (bell ringing!)
9. Knees :: Week
10. Shelves :: Filing

Teaser Tuesday - Dec 15

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!

This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute, but it seemed an hour. The bells ceased as they had begun together. They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below; as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchants cellar.

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, I thought the 3rd sentence continued the teaser nicely. Well enough known for the passage I've quoted to be identified easily? Seasonal reading for our book group, it's been many years since I read this, a vivid description of social conditions in the 1800s but sometimes over-flowery!

Mutterings - Dec 14

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

1. Upstairs :: Downstairs (a UK TV series - not sure I've ever seen it!)
2. Blouse :: Lace
3. Curls :: Forehead (there was a little girl...)
4. Face :: Clock
5. Ultimate :: Challenge
6. Hole :: in One
7. Theater :: Seating (I'm on the committee of a local cinema club and the state of the seating is a frequent discussion topic!)
8. Polished :: French
9. Freak :: of Nature
10. Griddle :: Crumpet

Teaser Tuesday - Dec 8

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!

We didn't speak for some time.
'There's a couple of details here might interest you,' I said and pointed to the falling man.

From J L Carr's A Month in the Country- a novella short but very thought provoking. Telling of a WWI survivor who goes to a country village to restore a medieval wall painting. A slow tale of 80 pages wonderful details - the organ buying trip and other quotes like this:

If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvellous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.

There's a review here with lots of insights. I've read it at a rate of about 2 pages an evening slow but enjoying and savouring the details! The author grew up in Castleford which was of some interest to this household!

Mutterings - Dec 8

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

1. Mistake :: Simple
2. Lights :: Out!
3. Holiday :: Summer
4. Hi :: There
5. Giving :: Receiving (more blessed to...)
6. Bottle :: Bank
7. Understand :: Analyse
8. Red :: Alert (missed a trick there it should have been wine!)
9. Bracing :: Skegness - the power of ancient advertising!
10. Stop! :: Thief!

Teaser Tuesday - Dec 1

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!

A saddler in Eyup assumed the leadership of the throng. He preached that the Jews and the Christians were People of the Book and, though in error, they were not evil.

Another teaser from Elif Shafak's 'The Architect's Apprentice, I'm still enjoying this but am finding it a bit episodic. And then there's the moments when I think that instead of being in the medieval Middle East this book is really based in Yorkshire - based on the place name in the above extract! Sorry I'll get my coat.