Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Teaser Tuesday

MizB at Should Be Reading hosts this cool weekly event.

Teaser Tuesdays asks you to:

--Grab your current read
--Let the book open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
--You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from… that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Whenever I would close the Kreuterbuch and push its covers tight, there was an exhalation, a settling, before I affixed the clasps. Of course I would return it, I reassured myself. But in the meantime, I kept a book that did not belong to me and tried not to think about what that made me.
A book "that doesn't belong to me" is such a big deal because it weighs in at twelve pounds, is nearly 400 pages, and was published in 1630!

pg 8, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
quote from the uncorrected proof edition
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5 comments:

  1. gautami tripathyOctober 13, 2009 at 1:43 AM

    Interesting book, this!

    Tuesdays: Teaser/Whereabouts

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  2. ZiaOctober 13, 2009 at 6:28 AM

    This was an interesting book. I remember those sentences well. Great teaser!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 13, 2009 at 6:35 AM

    Heard so many great things about this book. How are you liking it? Or maybe it's too early to tell.

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  4. fredamansOctober 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM

    Good teaser!!!

    Here's mine: http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2009/10/teaser-tuesday_13.html

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  5. Sassy Brit @ Alternative-Read.comOctober 13, 2009 at 1:23 PM

    I really want to read this, and now it's on my TBR list!

    Here's my Tuesday Teaser!

    Have a good day!

    Sassy
    :)

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Thank you!

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