Teaser Tuesday

This Teaser Tuesday is missing a cover, because I’m gobbling up a reading copy that isn’t due until June, and the cover doesn’t seem to exist out in the world yet. To make up for it, I’m going to share this extra tid-bit: Mel Campbell’s pintrest where she shares her research for the book. GETTING INSIDE THE CREATIVE PROCESS! How exciting.

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“Last year, I visited the Bendigo Art Gallery to see an exhibition of clothes that once belonged to Hollywood actress Grace Kelly, later Princess Grace of Monaco. When I compared the garments to the photos, films and newsreels depicting Grace wearing them, I couldn’t believe the relatively solid, healthy-looking person in the images could possibly have possessed the kind of dainty, birdlike body that would have fitted into these sleeves and waistlines.”

– from Out of Shape by Mel Campbell, due out June 2013.

26/03/2013 3

Teaser Tuesday

I feel like I’ve spent a few weeks falling down a rabbit hole, and only now am I beginning to emerge into the landscape that is my life. It all looks a little different without uni, and with me trying to find new ways to keep myself afloat (money and spirits), and to launch fully into my adjusted-routine writing life.

Enter: Teaser Tuesdays. If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll remember Teaser Tuesdays.

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“Yet at the same time, Brennan was aware he was enacting a different reality, turning up in his cream flannel pyjama pants, under his overcoat, little red reindeer running up and down his legs as he spoke on French symbolist poetry. He was sure the double corrected him and made sense of everything.”

– Brian Castro, Street to Street, p130

13/11/2012 0

Teaser Tuesday

It’s been a while between drinks for Teaser Tuesdays. Let’s try again.

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“It doesn’t matter where you go, or what you do with your feelings, your truth lies in wait. My childhood haunting me in much the same way my fists haunt my hands.”

from Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer (p1).

03/01/2012 0

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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 shiver at the thought and in response, Nick takes his jacket off and places it around my shoulders. I feel safe and not cold and from the vibe the jacket gives off, I also feel fairly confident that the original Texaco Salvatore was a good family man, with perhaps a propensity for wearing his wife’s panties and betting his kids’ college money at the track, but otherwise a solid dude.”
(From p55 of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan)

05/07/2011 0

Teaser Tuesday

It’s been a long while between Teaser Tuesdays, but I’m reading a lot of stuff I want to share lately, so it’s back.

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“It is to the 30+ testosteronically afflicted males whose cases have been documented in the past two years that your correspondents wish to dedicate this article. And to those tormented souls considering autocastration in 1998, we wish to say: “Stop! Stay your hand! Hold off with those kitchen utensils and/or wire cutters!” ”
(From Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace)

21/06/2011 3

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“The box is nothing extraordinary, though its contents have been known to induce fevers. At least, that is one of the effects it had on Josianne when it first came to her – perhaps she decided to pass on her gift as much from a need to get it away from herself as to share it with another.”
From Elena Mauli Shapiro’s 13, rue Therese, p3.

15/02/2011 0

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
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“I wonder what secrets she keeps buried beneath her blouse. I want to grab her and tell her about mine – the one lurking beneath my shirt – how I used to walk like an ape because of the rashes, an unfortunate consequence of the aluminium-rich roll-on the doctor prescribed for my hyperhidrosis.”
From David Kelly’s Armadillo in “The Best Australian Stories 2010”, ed. Cate Kennedy. p29.

28/12/2010 0

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.”

From Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted (p5)

30/11/2010 0

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
You also need to share the title 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!

“It’s that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the quivering ears of that dear old voice in the shadows, the Dark Passenger, nestled snug in the backseat of the Dodge K-car of Dexter’s hypothetical soul.
That rascal moon, that loudmouthed leering Lucifer, calling down across the empty sky to the dark hearts of the night monsters below, calling them away to their joyful playgrounds.”