Hey guys! Remember me? Kate and I have been deplorably negligent of this ole blog over the past few months—Kate because she was off having a life and being a kick-butt reporter and me because of all the insanity associated with finishing my degree, moving house across an ocean, and starting my new job all at the same time.
That said, I hope with this post to turn over a new blogging leaf and once again post regularly. Since finishing my dissertation, I’ve been reading for pleasure much, much more (thank the heavens). Thus a Teaser Tuesday seemed in order! Below are some random passages from books I’ve already read, I hope to read, or have just been hanging around my bookshelves too long not to post about. Consider these teasers for forthcoming posts!
And I’d love to catch up with all of you and hear about what you’ve been reading. Share some teasers of your own in the comments section!
“Several months later, once he decides she is ready, the magicians writes a letter of his own. He includes no address, but it reads its destination across the ocean nonetheless.” (more…)
I’m getting this Teaser Tuesday in under the wire! (Unless you live in Hawaii, in which case this is in at midday. Ah time zones.) For those of you unfamiliar with our sporadic Teaser Tuesdays, the idea is to pick up whatever book you’re reading, open it to a random page, and post a sentence or two from between lines 7-12 on that page. And away we go!
“Ghosts, devils, spirits walking at night. Most common are stories concerning a ferocious black wild creature, half devil, half beast, stalking the countryside when times are bad, snatching children and livestock.” (more…)
Okay, in the great tradition of Teaser Tuesdays, I bring you an the end-of-the-week special: Teaser Friday!
For those of you new the club, I’ve opened up the books I’m currently reading to random pages and picked a good two sentences found on said random page between lines 7 and 12. Arbitrary? Yes. Fun? Heck yeah!
“These two-hours visits I made every two or three days to the Merhamet Apartments I hid not just from Sibel–it was as if I was hiding from myself as well, which may be why I came to believe I was reducing my suffering to a manageable condition.” (more…)
With the temporary suspension of the LT Classics Challenge, it’s the perfect time to revisit our Teaser Tuesday series, originally started by Marg over at Adventures of an Intrepid Reader. For those of you who haven’t seen this before, basically the idea is to pick up whatever book you’re reading, open it to a random page, and post two sentences from between lines 7-12 on that page.
“As we reached the tunnel and began the cool stroll through it, Kate asked, ‘What are you and Father doing on all those long, secretive nights, Wilkie? Even Charles doesn’t seem to know.’” (more…)
In the great tradition of Teaser Tuesdays, I give you a guessing game to beguile your Wednesday.
All but one of the following first lines come from books that are on deck to be reviewed here at Literary Transgressions. Can you guess which books they come from and, as a bonus, which one has already been reviewed here at LT? Hint: Our “On the Shelf” page can provide some clues if you’re truly stumped and I’ll try to post more hints throughout the day in the comments section below.
1. “As a child, I was a brief devotee of I-Spy books, those spotter’s guides for the short-trousered.” (more…)
Hey everyone! It’s time for your Teaser Tuesday, where we pick books, open them to a random page, and post two sentences from between lines 7-12 on that page. This will be short, as we weren’t really going to post today, but I figured I might as well since I had a stack of books beside me. ;) This week’s teaser theme is young adult lit:
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Turning back to Sally, her face now twisted like some tribal mask, pale eyes bulging and papery lips drawn in a sneer, ‘Tell me why these robbers who did not enter the house should select you for their imaginary attentions? What did you have that anyone would want?’
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
And she ran into the middle of the room and, taking a handle in each hand, began to skip, and skip, and skip, while Mary turned in her chair to stare at her, and the queer faces in the old portraits seemed to stare at her, too, and wonder what on earth this common little cottager had the impudence to be doing under their very noses. But Martha did not even see them.
It’s another Teaser Tuesday here at Literary Transgressions. For those of you just joining us, every Tuesday we sample a bunch of books we expect to review in the future, open them to a random page and quote two sentences from between lines 7 and 12. This Tuesday is particularly themeless since I thought everything was from the nineteenth century and was then sad to discover I was completely crazy and that only one was written in that glorious century. Sigh. So no theme!
But nevertheless, in chronological order, here we go! (more…)
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Teaser Tuesday! For those of you who missed last week, essentially this is a sampling of the books I plan on reviewing in the future — I’ve just grabbed the pile, opened to a random page for each one, and then chose two sentences between lines seven and 12 on that page.
Disclaimer: I make no promises regarding when the books listed here will be reviewed :P
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
‘God! God! God!’ he said. ‘What have we done, what has this poor thing done, that we are so beset?’ (more…)
Welcome, all, to Teaser Tuesday! Basically how this goes down is that I have grabbed a stack of books I’m planning on reviewing in the near future, opened them to a random page and picked a two-sentence quote from between lines 7 and 12 on that page. Just to get you pumped about them! So here’s hoping they’re actually good! (more…)
I stole this from the book blog Reading Adventures (a “Blog of Note” this week) and thought it was an easy way to get a vaguely interesting post out. It’s also a fairly decent way to keep you even vaguely interested in the books I’m reading currently.
Here’s the deal: I have grabbed the books I have in the “On The Shelf” bar to your right, flipped to a random page, and chose two sentences between lines 7 and 12 on that page. Ready? Okay –
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
“They also wanted ‘For Those Who Willingly Made The Supreme Sacrifice’ to be written on the front. Father refused to back down on the sculpture, saying they could consider themselves lucky the Weary Soldier had two arms and two legs, not to mention a head, and that if they didn’t watch out he’d go for bare-naked realism all the way and the statue would be made of rotting body fragments, of which he had stepped on a good many in his day.” (more…)
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Dracula, by Bram Stoker
