Teaser Tuesdays & It’s Tuesday, Where Are You? – June 23, 2009
Posted By CarrieK on June 23, 2009
The Book of Unholy Mischief
Even the narrow canals around the Rialto teemed with floating shops – a small barge piled with jumbled green grapes, a boat heaped with oranges and limes, and another listing under a mountain of melons. I jogged along, drunk on all the colors and smells of the known world: pyramids of blood oranges from Greece, slender green beans from Morocco, sun-ripened cherries from Provence, giant white cabbages from Germany, fat black dates from Constantinople, and shiny purple eggplants from Holland.
The Actor and the Housewife
Becky wasn’t surprised at Mike’s shocked silence. She was rather shocked into silenter silence herself.
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I’m in Venice in the year 1498. I’ve been apprenticed to Maestro, the chef to the Doge. The whole city is buzzing with gossip about a book, a book full of magic secrets for making gold and love potions – even resurrecting the dead. I’ve just found out that the Maestro knows more about this book than he’s letting on – but what? (The Book of Unholy Mischief)
I’m on a raft tied to a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The lifeboat is occupied by a tiger, a tiger that I am trying to tame before he gets hungry enough to eat me. (The Life of Pi, Yann Martel – on audiobook)
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Great teasers this week, CarrieK! Both of them is on my wish list and this gave me no reason to remove them
I want that first book!
Tuesdays: Teasers/Whereabouts
Well, I ‘ll read anything about Venice – a favorite city of mine. It’s going on my list! And I just recently picked up Life of Pi and am looking forward to it. Thanks for the teasers!
they both sound like good reads. I am here
Ladybug – They’re both good so far. I’m not very far into Actor and Housewife yet – just started it last night.
Gautami – it’s very good – great descriptions of the city and of food, and very mysterious.
Stacy – Me, too – I love reading anything about Italy.
Kaye – thanks. I’ll visit!
I like the title of the first one. I may have to read it just for that!
Here’s mine:
http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2009/06/23/teaser-tuesdays-its-tuesday-where-are-you-june-23-2009/
Tonya – it’s a great title, isn’t it?
This is the second time I’ve seen something intriguing posted, from The Book of Unholy Mischief. I really, really want to read that book now!
Meanwhile, my own teaser is at Bookishgal.