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Teaser Tuesday

When she was not looking for her name, she was writing it, and not just Charlotte either as she would have put on her books at home, or even at the little village school where she went before. Charlotte alone proved no identity at all. Charlotte Mary Makepeace she wrote in full and in her… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

I’m reading a non-fiction book right that’s good, but a little uninspiring for a Teaser Tuesday post. So instead I’m going to post a teaser from a poem in the poetry book I’m currently reading now – Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins. This is the best – throwing off the light covers, feet on the… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

We human beings build houses because we’re alive, but we write books because we’re mortal. We live in groups because we’re sociable, but we read because we know we’re alone. Reading offers a kind of companionship that takes no one’s place, but that no on can replace either. It offers no definitive explanation of our… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

Through her closed eyelids Olive sees a red light slanting through the windows; she can feel sunlight warming her calves and ankles on the bed, can feel beneath her hand how it warms the soft fabric of her dress, which really did come out nicely. It pleases her to think of the piece of blueberry… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

I have read quite a lot of books lately, and I intend to read many more. And in books I have discovered that there are sometimes lonely patches And scary times Disasters Catastrophes And long paragraphs of no use at all except possibly (says Saffron) to build up your stamina. But there are also jokes… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

There are some types of food that do lend themselves to sophisticated techniques of interrogation. When an Italian restaurant is suggested, for instance, I always say, “Who controls the city around here?” I suppose a good Italian restaurant could exist in a city that doesn’t have enough Italians to constitute at least a powerful minority… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

Daddy flipped the switch. In the seconds it took to really get going, cake flour blew up from the mixing bowl and swirled around the room, recipes flapped off the counter and caught fire on the stovetop. Constantine snatched the burning roll of parchment paper, quickly dipped it in the bucket of water. There’s still… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

When it comes to the ten o’clock news, my father has little interest in the news itself, unless it’s space-related. For the weather he puts down his drink and cups both hands around his ears to better hear the forecast. He also frequently kneels in front of whatever TV he’s watching. He kneels more often… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday