Teaser Tuesday and Where Are You? 03-17-09: The Thirteenth Tale

OK, before I get started on the tease and the geography lesson, here's a little shameless self promotion! Head on over to my photo blog, in particular my scavenger hunt post. It's a challenge/contest hosted by NicoleB, a really cool woman who lives in Hungary. There are about twenty of us entered; she has a voting poll up on her blog, so go vote (if you vote for me, I promise to do my best to fix the economy and get us the hell out of Iraq).

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.


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.

Today's selection comes from The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, page 17:

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

It's Tuesday, Where Are You? is hosted by an adventure in reading.

I'm in the north of England in a very odd, secluded house learning the true story of a recluse author's life.