Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. He pointed to the trunks and Marion would always remember this. His right arm around her neck, hand grooved under her chin like a vise, and left arm pointing, like God himself, down to Earth, down to Adam, down to the … Continue reading Teaser Tuesday: Bury Me Deep

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. So, I may have experienced my very own Christmas miracle: I got a stack of books as a gift, and when I opened the box from Amazon, the books were not wrapped. It just so happened that as I was stacking … Continue reading Teaser Tuesday: Await Your Reply

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Last week I was making great progress with The Group, by Mary McCarthy, but my progress was interrupted when Michelle Huneven's Blame became available on my hold list at the library. Blame had a shorter check-out period, so I set The … Continue reading Teaser Tuesday: A Double Dose

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. From Mary McCarthy's The Group: "Mrs. Renfrew sharply wrung out the compress, which had got tepid while she was thinking, and held it afresh under the cold-water tap. For Dottie's own sake, she had to know how far the thing had … Continue reading Teaser Tuesdays: The Group

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. From Joshua Gaylord's Hummingbirds: "During the winter, the courtyard of Carmine-Casey is barren and miserable and inspires thoughts of death in the minds of the students who sit staring out the windows, deaf to their history lectures and their French recitations. … Continue reading Teaser Tuesdays: Hummingbirds