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Teaser Tuesday: A Version of the Truth

Phyl — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:06:30 +0000

A young woman lies to get an office job at a university, and as she's exposed to the knowledge and mind set there, she begins to change and grow. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – For Matrimonial Purposes

Phyl — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:19:16 +0000

I seem, lately to be encountering books about young women from the Indian culture, and their matrimonial prospects. Must be something in the air. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton

Phyl — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:24 +0000

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

Phyl — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:22:16 +0000

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

Phyl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:12:17 +0000

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

Phyl — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:05 +0000

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

Phyl — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:31:03 +0000

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

Phyl — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:40:27 +0000

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

Tuesday Teaser – Norse Code, by Greg van Eekhout

Phyl — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:23:18 +0000

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! [...]

Tuesday Teaser: Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice

Phyl — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:05:43 +0000

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, [...]