By the time this post is published, we will all be back home, but right this moment, as I type this up, we are enjoying our last day at Daufuskie, a secluded island near Hilton Head, SC and Savannah, GA. We were lucky to score a cottage (without having to break the bank) with front-row access to the beach, something that has always been on my bucket list and that I was thrilled to cross off. This week has been very refreshing and just what I needed - a getaway, a break from it all, a retreat with family with no thoughts of work, to-do lists, and chores getting in the way. The island sure runs on its own time. The streetlights aren't turned ON at night to avoid attracting turtles too far from their ideal nesting place. There's the alligator crossing time at night when they go from pond to pond visiting friends (and hence tourists are advised to stay home when it's dark). There are very few cars - instead the preferred mode of transportation is via golf carts, which can go o
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 with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
Jack knew this much about the letters because he paid a detective to follow his wife. The detective had reported no meetings, phone calls or email; no suspicious activity at all, except the letters. The detective did not report that Edie had taken to staring at him as she burned the letters, then grinding the ashes into the pavement with her shoe. Once she'd given him the Nazi salute. He had begun to dread following her.
~ Pg. 5, Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger.
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Here is my teaser: http://web.me.com/quirion/Bookaddict/Blog/Entries/2010/1/19_Teaser_Tuesday.html
Hope you enjoy the rest of it!
Here's mine
Here's mine.
Here's mine.
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesday-happiness-sold.html
My teaser this week is creepy but funny! Here's a link.
here's mine;
http://darlynandbooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesdays-painted-house.html
Fan one! I need to read this.-Juju
Beth F, jlshall, Jennifer, dArLyN, Juju, I hope you all get to read it soon!
Michelle, Amy, Ash, Diane, thanks! :)
Lisa, I agree!
Andrea, I agree with the poor man bit! :)
MarceJ, sorry you wouldn't read another by her, I did like TTTW, but I'll reserve my judgment for this one.
Kaye, I agree, this book starts off well.
Susan, I hope to enjoy it too, though so far I am yet to see any of the TTTW's magic
My "headline" teaser is here.
longbrakeliving, I am so far! :)