Mutterings - Oct 17

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

1. Prove :: Theorem
2. Update :: Security
3. Animal :: Puppet (or even Muppet!)
4. Chocolate :: Cooking
5. Illness :: Serious
6. Upright :: Piano
7. Crucial ::
8. Baked :: Beans
9. Hoops :: Hula
10. Posture :: Seated

Teaser Tuesday - Oct 5

Teaser tuesday's now hosted here.

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) • Share the title \& author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

...by a former Pope in his place; or John XII who was consecrated at the age of seventeen and during whose reign, according to Gibbon, 'we learn with some surprise that the Lateran Palace was turned into a school for prostitution; and that his rapes of virgins and widows had deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the tomb of St Peter, lest, in the devout act, they should be violated by his successor.' Phew - that's only one sentence from John Julius Norwich The History of Venice - one of the racier, more unpleasant bits of Italian history!

Mutterings - Oct 5

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

1. Trails :: Vapour
2. Permanently :: Exclusion
3. Incident :: Close
4. Concur :: Shake (on it!)
5. Shocked :: Expression
6. Money :: Income
7. Horse :: Mouth
8. Church :: People
9. British :: Identity (whatever that is!)
10. Scandal :: Profumo