Teaser Tuesday: 3.9.10

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• 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!

My Teaser:

This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it - waking, after all, was an almost natal state.  You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.

 ~ page 20 in Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Tuesday Teaser: Still Alice

Tuesday Teaser is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading.  Anyone is invited to play along, just:

• Grab your current read
• Open a random page
• Share 2 teaser sentences from that page (I will share slightly more today)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS
• Share the Title and the author so that other participants may add the book to their TBR lists, if they so desire

My teaser is from Still Alice by Lisa Genova

And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted.  This disease will not be bargained with.  I can't offer it the names of the United States presidents in exchange for the names of my children.  I can't give it the names of the state capitals and keep the memories of my husband.                     --- page 251

Teaser Tuesday: Eye of the Crow

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB and is great fun for anyone! All you need to do is:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on the page.

I am currently reading Eye of the Crow, a YA novel by Shane Peacock about Sherlock Holmes as a young boy.

They are flying toward the oldest part of London, the city proper, the area inside London Wall, where spooky little streets wind around like snakes slithering into stone burrows. It is filled with banks these days, but it's where the Romans once lived, where the Vikings and Saxon lords ruled, where witches told gruesome tales, and wretched medieval men and women were whipped and tortured in public. (page 31)

This is a great book so far and one that I think I will suggest my 7th grade students read when we complete our mystery unit in the Spring.

Tuesday Teasers - 8.4.09

There are two Tuesday memes that coordinate well with one another and I am so excited to participate in both of them today.

It's Tuesday, Where are You is hosted by Raider Girl of An Adventure in Reading. I am living in Princeton, NJ where I have been an admissions counselor for said Ivy League university for ten years. I take my job very seriously, reading and evaluating over 800 college applications each year. While I thoroughly enjoy giving students the educational opportunity of a lifetime, I am always mournful of the best and the brightest that we must turn away. I have just recently come to face to face with a ghost from my past and I am struggling to deal with seventeen years of pent up emotion.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read - Open to a random page - Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.

"The traveling was done for the year, and what remained was this confluence of the cold and winter, and the all-in-our-hands sense of bleak responsibility: to the trustees and faculty, of course, and to the guidance counselors (who were, for better or worse, their partners in the work of getting the right students into the freshman class), and, yes, to the alumni, because Princeton honored its graduates and wished to retain their high opinion. But mainly to the applicants themselves, who collectively seemed to hover everywhere in Portia's imagination, like spectral Jude the Obscures, waiting for the verdict on their futures and - Portia very much feared - their sense of self-worth." -- page 217 Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz