Teaser Tuesday: How Can You NOT Love a Book with People-Dissolving Sea Monsters?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Ah, Quirk Classics. What would I do without you? You introduced me to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and it was love at first bite. Now, you bring me Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and I am drowned in a sea of beautiful prose, star-crossed lovers ad ichor-dripping sea monsters:

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters

(Philadelphia: Quick Books, 2009)
Trade Paperback, 344 Pages, Fiction

ISBN: 9781594744426, US$12.95

My Teaser: “As the party watched in stunned horror, Miss Bellwether was wrapped inside the quavering blanket shape of the beast and consumed; the stomach acids of the enormous jellyfish dissolved her flesh, emitting a sickening sizzling noise, followed by a sort of unholy belch. And then, as quickly as it had come, the creature dragged itself back into the sea; the tide withdrew; and all that was left of Miss Bellwether was a pile of corroded bones, a lump of hair, and a whalebone corset” (62).

Teaser Tuesdays: Money Well-Spent ... ?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

About two days before I finished Lois H Gresh and Robert Weinberg’s Why Did It Have to be Snakes?: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones, Gresh and Weinberg’s The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master’s Fiction arrived on hold for me at the library, and when I was done with Snakes, instead of moving on to the next book in my TBR pile (Robert Durban’s The Pines) I just had to pick up The Science of Stephen King. So, without any further ado … here is today’s teaser:

The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master’s Fiction

by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg

(Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2007)

Trade Paperback, 264 Pages, Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780471782476, US$15.95

MY TEASER: “In 1986, the U.S. government spent $42 million on developing defenses against infectious diseases and toxins, ten times more money than was spent in 1981. The money went to twenty-four U.S. universities, in hopes of developing strains of anthrax, Rift Valley fever, Japanese encephalitis, tularemia, shigella, botulin, and Q fever” (125).

Teaser Tuesdays: That's Quite the Circumstance!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I found this book on one of the shelves as I was browsing my new local library. (How fun is that? Getting acquainted with a new library?) And even though I had a different book at the top of my TBR pile, I decided to bump this one to the top because (1) it looked like a lot of fun, and (2) it looked like it would be a fairly quick read. So, what teasers does it have to offer? How about the following:

Why Did It Have to be Snakes?: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones

by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg

(Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
Trade Paperback, 264 Pages, Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780470225561, US$15.95

My Teaser: “The party of Adolf Hitler, the leader of 1930s Germany, stood for bigotry, intolerance, and racial hatred, all beliefs that were anathema to patriotic Americas, yet strangely enough, Indy was once associated with the hated symbol of the Nazi party, the swastika. Not by choice but by circumstance” (126).

Teaser Tuesdays: Being a Ghost Means Never Having to Say "I'm Sorry"

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I’m currently reading Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century by Robert Charles Wilson. It is one that has been in my TBR pile for quite some time now and opening to a random page, we find the following teaser:

Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century

by Robert Charles Wilson

(New York: Tor Books, 1998)

Paperback, 372 Pages, Fiction

ISBN: 9780812566628, US$6.99

My Teaser: “The expression on his face seemed to say: How absurd, that we have to meet like this. As if a ghost were to apologize for its clumsy trappings: the winding-sheet, the chains” (241).