Teaser Tuesday: The Corrections

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He compared himself to the Minutemen at Lexington and Concord.  When Robin, much later, showed Denise the trial transcript, Denise imagined bringing Billy and her brother Chip together over dinner and listening while they compared notes about "the bureaucracy," but this dinner would have to wait until Billy had served seventy percent of his twelve-to-eighteen-year sentence at Graterford.
~ p 301, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Teaser Tuesday: Children of the New World

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There are so many memories that attach Lila to Suzanne, from childhood and high school on.  It just so happened that for six years they didn't see and hardly spoke to each other.
~ p 72, Children of the New World, Assia Djebar

We're reading Children of the New World as our June selection in Literature by Women - come join us!

Teaser Tuesday: Troubles

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As for the Major, his cold was much worse and he had just decided to spend the rest of the day in bed when a message arrived from Sarah to say that she was bored and would like to come to the Majestic "to see everyone" and would he come and collect her?  He was ill.
~ p 228, Troubles by J.G. Farrell

*Troubles just won the "Lost" Booker!

Teaser Tuesday (late): It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me

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I haven't done a teaser in a while!

One day at lunch my science teacher saw me drinking coffee in the cafeteria and complained to my mother.  He told her that he didn't think it was a good idea for me to have caffiene and that's probably why I wan't paying attention in class.  But she told him the reason I didn't pay attention in class was because he was a moron.  After that, he left me alone.
~ p 16, It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me by Ariel Levy

Teaser Tuesday: The Best American Short Stories 2009

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Although he never said so aloud, he must have been disappointed that none of his four sons - of whom my father, a successful retail furrier, was the youngest - had turned out to be in the least scholarly or even mildly bookish.  There was only me, his grandson: a last chance to impart to another generation his love for Hebrew and above all for Yiddish, his sweet, endlessly subtle mamalosh'n.
~ p 41-42, "Beyond the Pale" by Joseph Epstein, The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold

Teaser Tuesday: Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies

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Remarkably, many scenes are played out with an Ingmar Beergman level of earnestness.  "Is anyone really in love?" the film asks.  It's a movie whose heart would be on its sleeve, if only it was wearing one.
~ p 147, Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, Michael Adams

Teaser Tuesday: The Omnivore's Dilemma

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When George Naylor's grandfather was farming, the typical Iowa farm was home to whole families of different plant and animal species, corn being only the fourth most common.  Horses were the first, because every farm needed working animals (there were only 225 tractors in all of American in 1920), followed by cattle, chickens, and then corn.
~ Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Part Two, Chapter 3

Teaser Tuesday: Eternal on the Water

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Somewhere after my twentieth jumping jack I thought matches.  A fire.
~p 131, Eternal on the Water, Joseph Monninger (advance reader's edition)

Teaser Tuesday: Twitterature

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are here, up to their shenanigans.  YAWN.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.  Anyone miss them?  Didn't think so.
~p 33, Twitterature, by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin

(This one's not quite so random because I just had to share a few tweets from their Hamlet but I did randomly pick the tweets - sooo funny)

Teaser Tuesday: The Help

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I drive my mama's Cadillac fast on the gravel road, headed home.  Patsy Cline can't even be heard on the radio anymore, for all the rocks banging on the side of the car.  Mother would be furious, but I just drive faster.
~ Chapter 5, The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Help is my first nook purchase - not only is the book very enjoyable it was a smooth purchase and download.

Teaser Tuesday: Illness

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In order for us to understand the meaning of our existence we must first see our lives as a stretch from birth to death, or as essentially temporal.  We must understand our finitude on both sides, but especially our death, because that is where we are inexorably headed.
~ p 92, Illness: The Cry of the Flesh by Havi Carel

Teaser Tuesday: The Complete Stories

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Mrs. May stopped still, one hand lifted to her throat.  The sound was so piercing that she felt as if some violent unleashed force had broken out of the ground and was charging toward her.
~ p 316, The Complete Stories, "Greenleaf", Flannery O'Connor

Teaser Tuesday: Best Nonrequired Reading 2009

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Roy.  Taking a wild berry candy from my pocket I resolve again to focus on a candy under my tongue instead of on him.
~ Rivka Galchen, "Wild Berry Blue", The Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers

Teaser Tuesday: A Truth Universally Acknowledged

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One of the things that makes her novels exciting is that she is so acute a commentator on the intellectual and cultural currents of her time. Not that she pontificates about them; rather she detects their presence, notes with interest and amusement how they are reflected in the trivia of everyday life and speech.

~ p 169, A Truth Universally Acknowledged, John Wiltshire, "Why do we read Jane Austen?"

*I've caught some sort of crummy cold meaning I've done nothing in my free time except lay in bed and stare blankly at the TV while I listen to myself breathing (welcome to colds+asthma).  So NaBloPoMo is a bit thin on the ground this year for me.

Teaser Tuesday: And Then There Were None

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Five people - five frightened people.  Five people who watched each other, who now hardly troubled to hide their state of nervous tension.
~ p 185, And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

Teaser Tuesday: The Mill on the Floss

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Mr Tulliver and his family must live more meagrely and humbly, but it would only be till the profits of the business had paid off Furley's advances, and that might be while Mr Tulliver had still a good many years of life before him. It was clear that the costs of the suit could be paid without his being obliged to turn out of his old place and look like a ruined man.
~ p 206, The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot

Teaser Tuesday: The Children's Book

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They went to the Rodin Pavilion in the Place de l'Alma. Here were gathered most of Rodin's works in bronze, marble and plaster; the walls were hung with large numbers of his drawings.
~p 297, The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt

Picked a vague one, didn't I? Mwahahahahaha.

PS: Congrats to Hilary Mantel for her Man Booker win!

Teaser Tuesday: The Satanic Verses

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Chamcha's room struck the sleepless intruder as contrived, and therefore sad: the caricature of an actor's room full of signed photographs of colleagues, handbills, framed programmes, production stills, citations, awards, volumes of movie-star memoirs, a room bought off the peg, by the yard, an imitation of life, a mask's mask.
~ p 180, The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

Teaser Tuesday: The Good Thief

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There were three sets of gates - entry to the yard, entry to the inner yard, and entry to the hospital itself. The boy was not sure where to begin.
~ Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief, p 128

Teaser Tuesday: The Naked and the Dead

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In the grove while they were cutting stretcher poles, Roth found a bird. It was a tiny thing, smaller than a sparrow, with soft dun-colored feathers and a crippled wing, and it hopped about slowly, chirping piteously, as if very tired.
~ p 528, The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer