SomeReads

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My first Teaser Tuesday in a while…

I just started A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert, so I don’t have much to pick from right now. (I only pick from a part of the book I’ve already read.) This quote is from p. 8:

This, this, they say, gesturing out to the cold blue hills beyond or the pile of rubble, a former castle, on the crest, or the rotten silver oak they have hacked to a stump, the weather already turned and Madame Lane’s in need of heat. There is never enough heat, and the women who look after us rise earliest in the morning to scour the dead limbs of the silver oak for kindling, the heels of their palms riddled with splinters, hard blisters.

So far, I don’t care for the book, but it’s written from the perspective of 5 different generations of women, and I have only read the first section. I am going to give it more time and see if the writing style changes with the different women.

The northern hemisphere, at least, is socked in by winter right now… So, on a cold, wintry day, when you want nothing more than to curl up with a good book on the couch … what kind of reading do you want to do?

Houston doesn’t get all that many cold, wintry days, and inevitably when we do, I have to work! However, on those rare occasions that I do get to curl up with a good book on a cold day, it doesn’t really matter that much to me what I’m reading, as long as I’m reading! I prefer something that I can lose myself in, but usually I just pick up whatever I happen to be reading at the time.