Should Be Reading - Miz B - hosts this weekly event. We throw out a couple of sentences from our current read (without spoilers, of course) to entice you to read the book.
From Testimony by Anita Shreve, page 190:
I'm up the path now, farther than even you and I have ever gone. Once, when I was a kid, my father and I hiked to the top, it took all day, but when we got there and stood on a rock, we could see the mountains all around, and I remember being amazed that there was a mountain right behind the one we were on, one you couldn't see from the ground, and it seemed like there was a taller mountain behind that one too, so that every time you got to the top you would see that you had another mountain to climb, but then I figured there must be a top somewhere that was the highest of all, and I wondered if I would ever get to do that one day, go to the top.
7 comments:
That second sentence is quite hefty, isn't it? I've never read any Anita Shreve, but this one seems like one I might like to try. Great teasers!
I've been wanting to read this one for quite some time now.
What a long and skillful second sentence. I love it when writers do that well. This is the second good teaser I've read of this book today. I'm taking it as an omen. I need to read this book.
Shreve seems popular today! I read The Pilot's Wife a few days back!
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I'm reading Testimony right now, too - it's very thought-provoking.
Great teaser! I felt that way once when we took a trip up to Canada and climed some of the peaks near Whistler - it was amazing!
Here's my Teaser! ~ Wendi
Based from the excerpts you got a great book there.
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