Tuesday Fun: Bookishgal

Tuesday Teaser: Queen’s Play, by Dorothy Dunnett

Time again for the Tuesday Teaser! And yes yes, I’m on a Dorothy Dunnett kick lately. You get that way, when you’re immersed in one of her series.

Anyway, the Tuesday Teaser involves our grabbing the book we’re currently reading, opening it to a more or less random page, and taking two sentences from [...]

Teaser Tuesday: Bad Luck and Trouble

I decided to do a Tuesday Teaser today, for the current read about a character I thought I’d never like: Jack Reacher [...]

Teaser Tuesday – The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton

This is from a book about two modern-day scholars trying to uncover a mystery connected to the voyage of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, and what might have happened there that affected his family, and especially his daughter Elizabeth, for the rest of their lives. [...]

Tuesday Teaser – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Woven through it all is the laotong relationship Lily has with another girl, Snow Flower. This officially contracted relationship made two girls into pen pals and best friends. [...]

Tuesday Teaser – An Evil Spirit Out of the West

I’m very excited to read this book. It’s the first historical novel I’ve ever read that features the heretic Pharaoh, Akhenaten. [...]

Tuesday Teaser

Yes yes, I know I’m cheating. But I just could not find the time to do this yesterday. So here I am doing it today.

The Tuesday Teaser drill is this: grab the book you’re currently reading and let it fall open to a random page. (Or at least, moderately random; sometimes [...]

Tuesday Teaser – Ambassadors From Earth

It’s exactly the sort of non-fiction book I love, all about the history of space exploration, both from the Soviet Russian and American points of view. [...]

Tuesday Teaser – Suddenly, by Bonnie Burnard

Time again for the Tuesday Teaser! This one’s rather grim, I’m afraid, because the book itself is grim as well.

But you know the usual drill. Take the book you’re currently reading and let it fall open more or less to a random page. Choose two sentences from that page, and post them as a [...]

Tuesday Teaser – Lazy Bones by Mark Billingham

Today’s teaser really demands that I do all four sentences. [...]

Tuesday Teaser – Norse Code, by Greg van Eekhout

Mine today is from a book I just had to pick up because I love Norse mythology, and it looks like the plot relates — distantly — to that. A Norse myth re-enacted in southern California — love it! [...]

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