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Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday because Becca's quote from Catcher in the Rye makes me wonder what my  problem with that book is.
Teaser Tuesday is  hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
  • 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!



The various images bounced against each other until she felt a desperate vertigo, as if she could at any moment pitch backward and plunge head first down the well shaft and drown there, the sky far above her, her last vision but a bright circle set in the dark, no bigger than a full moon.  (p. 49)

-- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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  1. chrissy6:35 AM, April 27, 2010

    Oh she don't want to be at the bottom of the well.

    Great teaser

    Here is mine: http://chrissysworldofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-teaser-tuesday-grab-your-book-and.html

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  2. Alice Audrey7:10 AM, April 27, 2010

    This is a nicely lyrical passage.

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  3. onelonetree4:37 AM, April 28, 2010

    It's an awesome book, great descriptions and better characters.

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  4. Rebecca12:04 AM, May 10, 2010

    What a beautiful image!

    (you don't like Catcher?)

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  5. onelonetree4:37 PM, May 10, 2010

    (meh. read it in high school and had a hard time getting through it...everyone else loved it. I on the other hand loved the bell jar. In all fairness that was a good long while ago and I really should give it another shot.)

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