I seem, lately to be encountering books about young women from the Indian culture, and their matrimonial prospects. Must be something in the air. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 it just doesn’t [...]
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. [...]
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 teaser, to [...]
Today’s teaser really demands that I do all four sentences. [...]
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! [...]
Another good teaser from a new (to me) author. Children of the Waters is the book I won during Carleen Brice’s guest visit to one of the LitChat discussions on Twitter a few weeks ago. It’s her latest book, published this year. Ms. Brice has also previously written Orange Mint and Honey.
The Teaser procedure, as you [...]
Grab your current book and let it fall open to a random page. Pull two sentences off that page and post them as a teaser [...]
