Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are simple: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (as well as the book’s title and author) Be careful not to include spoilers This week’s quote is from a fabulous gem…
Tag: humor
Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
When you’re a kid, all you want to do is fit in. Nothing was worse than being embarrassed by a parent or yourself. Your goal was to have friends and avoid the insanity that is adolescence and young adulthood. Enter Jenny Lawson. Between the crippling anxiety disorder and a taxidermist father who says things like,…
Review: The Ugly Dachshund
Tono is frustrated. While the other Dachshunds get delicate meals, he gets raw meat. While the others are picked up and carried and loved on by the people (known as “the Legs”), he is never praised or petted, and spends a lot of time in trouble. But Tono feels blessed in one way: he, unlike…
Review: Oink! My Life with Mini-Pigs
When author Matt Whyman gets the chance to move his family (wife Emma, four kids, three nervous chickens, one needy dog, and a cat that despises everyone) out to the country, he’s excited about the prospect of being able to get more freelance writing done. But Emma has other plans. She’s decided that the missing…
Review: At Home
When author Bill Bryson stumbles upon a secret door in the attic of his 18th century home that leads to a space so small as to be unusable, he laughs to himself about the eccentricities of Victorian craftsmanship. This momentary distraction, coupled with a nearby farmer’s discovery of a centuries-old Roman pendant on his property,…