Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

The rules come from MizB of Should Be Reading.

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!

This week's teaser comes from A Stark and Wormy Knight by Tad Williams. (This is a short story collection that is currently only released as an e-book with a print release later this spring.)

“Oh, those were frightsome days, with knights lurking beneath every scone and round every bent, ready to spring out and spear some mother’s son for scarce no cause at all! So did your wisdominical Great-Grandpap confine himself to plowhards and peasant girls and the plumpcasional parish priest tumbled down drunk in the churchyard of a Sunday evening, shagged out from ‘cessive sermonizing. Princesses and such got noticed, do you see, but the primate proletariat were held cheap in those days (Pg 41)

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

The rules come from MizB of Should Be Reading.

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!

This week's teaser comes from Food Ethics edited by Paul Pojman. Some nonfiction, but this has been dominating my reading time currently due to it being a class text.

(pg 92) Garett Hardin's Lifeboat Ethics

""Man can not live by bread alone"-the scriptural statement has a rich meaning even in the material realm. Every human being born constitutes a draft on all aspects of the environment-food, air, water, unspoiled scenery, occasional an optional solitude, beaches, contact with wild animals, fishing, hunting- the list is long and incompletely known."

Books Wild Released in January 2012

1.) Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham on 1/5/2012
2.) Almost Like Being in Love by Christine Dodd on 1/13/2012
3.) Spirit by Graham Masterson on 1/13/2012
4.) Train Your Dog in an Hour by Sandy Butler on 1/17/2012
5.) The Marrying Type by Judith Arnold on 1/17/2012
6.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch by B.J. Arnold on 1/23/2012
7.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch by B.J. Arnold on 1/23/2012
8.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch by B.J. Arnold on 1/23/2012
9.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch by B.J. Arnold on 1/23/2012
10.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch by B.J. Arnold on 1/23/2012
11.) Destiny's Promise by Laurel Pace on 1/24/2012
12.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain on 1/24/2012
13.) Crime Scene at Caldwell Ranch on 1/27/2012
14.) The Girl’s Almanac by Emily Franklin on 1/31/2012
15.) Spider Girl Legacy vol. 1 on 1/31/2012

Books Read in January 2012

Print:

1.) The Nymphos of Rocky Flat by Mario Acevedo
2.) Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham
3.) Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventysomething Surrogate Mother
4.) The Girl's Almanac by Emily Franklin
5.) Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Audiobooks:

1.) The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth
2.) Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
3.) Wormwood by G.P Taylor
4.) Thud! by Terry Pratchett
5.) Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
6.) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
7.) Temporal Void by Peter F. Hamilton

E-books:

1.) Falling Fast by Lucy Kevin
2.) The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

Graphic Novels:

1.) Spider Girl Legacy volume 1

Total Books read in January: 15