Where are you and Teaser: 6/23/09

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I am in space on two separate missions. One is close to home (2001: A Space Odyssey). I have just got a boost from Jupiter on my way to Saturn and am beginning to suspect that there is something slightly off about my ship's main computer....
On the other "mission" (A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) I have just entered the orbit of Magrathea, a planet that has been dead for 5 million years and, until today, was considered simply a myth.


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From A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The introduction begins like this:
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..." and so on.
pg. 77

Teaser: 5/26/09

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This is from page 322 of Royal Blood by Rona Sharon

A curl of lip satisfied him that they were friends again and he exonerated of false charges.

Where are you? and Teaser: 5/19/09

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I have just arrived in England from France to do the bidding of brother-in-law the King of France. I have been blackmailed into coming after I was found in the bed of a poor painter by the name of Raphael.


Royal Blood by Rona Sharon


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He grinned in a man-to-man rapport. "How should you like to share tankard of bad ale and a pair of liced but not poxed whores at the stew after midnight?"
pg 56

Where are you? and Teaser: 5/12/09

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I am in two places at once this week. (Reading): I am still I am visiting the land of D'Hara. I have been captured by the evil Imperial Order and am feeling despair over every being free again. (Audio): I am also in London, where I have just woken up in the hospital after suffering head trauma from a severe car accident. Apparently, I have lost my memories of the last three years. I'm married and don't even remember meeting him!!!

From Confessor by Terry Goodkind
and Remember Me? by Sophia Kinsella



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My teaser this week again comes from Confessor, pg 294.


"Being free would be wonderful. Eating well as a slave is not my idea of wonderful."
Johnrock's face sagged a little, then brightened. "But being a slave eating ham is better than being a slave eating eggs, don't you think?"

Where are you? and Teaser: 5/5/09

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I am visiting the land of D'Hara this week on my final journey to overcome the forces of Jagang and his Fellowship of the Order. I have forgotten who I am and why I am here, but I do know that I hate this man...

From Confessor by Terry Goodkind




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This from page 37 of the same book:

I had occasion to cross paths with her once. We had a talk, of sorts. It was not what I would describe as a pleasant conversation.

Where are you and Teaser: 4/29/09

Yes, I am very late this week!

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I am still on the planet Annares in the city of Abbenay, a Utopian but anarchist society, learning physics but I have also just died at the haunted Mayan ruins in a little known part of Mexico.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin and The Ruins by Scott Smith



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This from Le Guin's book again (as the other is disgusting and was on audio).

They shot the dead man who lay nearest the word, and later on when the Directorate was restored to order the word was washed off the wall with water, soap, and rags, but it remained; it had been spoken; it had meaning.
pg. 302

Where are you and Teaser: The Dispossessed

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Today I am on the planet Annares in the city of Abbenay, a Utopian but anarchist society, learning physics.
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin



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This week's teaser is from page 246 of the same book.

To maintain genuine spontaneous fidelity in a society that had no legal or moral sanctions against infidelity, and to maintain it during voluntary accepted separations that could come at any time and might last years, was something of a challenge. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

Where are you and Teaser: Power of One

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I am again in Africa this week but am now 6 years old. I am alone on my first train ride after leaving hell (AKA boarding school) on my way to my new home. I just met the man that will change my life.





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This week's comes from The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

Hoppie had sensed my need to grow, my need to be assured that the world around me had not been specially arranged to bring about my undoing. He gave me a defense system, and with it he gave me hope.
pg. 103

Tuesday: Where are you? and Teaser

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Today I am in Africa, realizing that the aid company I work for isn't really aiding anyone but themselves (oh, and I'm trying NOT to die!)






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From page 49 of Lords of Corruption by Kyle Mills:

It was like God was following him around with a magnifying glass, punishing him for all those ants he'd burned when he was a kid. He'd never given a lot of thought to why some people were black and others white, but suddenly he was envious of the Africans' excess melanin.

Teaser: 3/24/09

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My teaser is again from Duma Key this week, pg 237:

A couple with a sports car moved in the house just south of Big Pink, and the distressing strains of Toby Keith began to waft to me around the cocktail hour. On the whole, I might have preferred Slipknot.

This sentence immediately made me think of Jeff, who probably could have said this very sentence. It almost sounds like it was lifted straight from his mouth (he doesn't like Slipknot, in case the sarcasm doesn't come through in type!)

Teaser: Duma Key

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My teaser comes from Stephen King's Duma Key:

I had become very selfish about it, and anything that might come after - a promised interview with Mary Ire, the lecture, the show itself - seemed to be not ahead of me but somehow far above me.

pg. 350

Teaser: The Liar's Club

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This teaser comes from The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. I'm enjoying this inappropriately funny memoir.

Apparently I just blanked out her last visit along with a lot of other things. She died, and I wasn't sorry.
---pg. 99

Teaser: Catch-22

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I have to say I am having a real hard time reading Catch-22. I just can't get into it. I don't care that Yossarian can't go home and has to fight in the war. I don't care that the guys in his squadron are seriously screwed up. I'm making myself finish it though for two reasons: 1) It's on my Whitcouls Challenge and 2) It's on a lot of people's favorite books list, I'm determined to figure out why. So, here's my teaser for the day:

"Where've you been?" he demanded rudely and disinterestedly without looking up.
The chaplain colored and turned away evasively. "I went for a walk through the woods."
p. 285

Teaser: More Greenmantle

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I thought I'd give some more from Charles de Lint's Greenmantle. This is from page 212, a nice follow up but kind of make it more intriguing if you don't know what's going on!

The music that came from his reed pipes was not the same as it had been earlier. It sang of regret now, and of things lost, rather than in celebration of the mystery.

Teaser: Greenmantle

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This is from p. 49 of Greenmantle by Charles De Lint.

His face was plump, his eyes somewhat vacant-looking, his hair lifting in an untidy thatch from his head. But when he lifted his pipes and set his breath into them, he changed.

Teaser: Diary

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This is from Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk (which I have no idea how to pronounce!) This is the guy that wrote Fight Club and this is no less twisted.

In this book, an old woodcut print shows an artist tracing a projection.
Across the page, someone's written,
"You can do this with your mind."

Tuesday Teaser: Speaker

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My Teaser this week comes from Speaker for the Dead. Officially the second book in the Ender series and my favorite. I am currently re-reading the series.

I have some other skills that might be useful. Particularly if you rebel.

pg. 298

Tuesday Teaser: Not what you think...

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This from page 5 of The Hour I First Believed. I deliberately chose this quote because it is misleading and if you know who he's talking about, haunting.

And I remember thinking he'd make a good Marine. Clean-cut, conscientious, his ironed T-shirt tucked neatly into his wrinkle-free shorts. Give him a few years, I figured,
and he'd probably be officer material.

Tuesday Teaser: Ender in Exile

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My teaser comes from Ender in Exile, which I finally started reading! I received the review copy a couple weeks ago but have so busy that I haven't had to time to read it!

But the image of somebody blowing Ender up or shooting him or whatever method they used - all the methods kept flashing through her mind. Wouldn't it be ironic - yet typically human - for the person who saved the human race to be assassinated?
pg. 19

Teaser: SEMTAP

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In any special education music therapy eligibility assessment, the most important element is the comparison of a student's skills (as targeted by his or her Individual Education Plan) with and without the structure of music therapy.
From pg 5 of the SEMTAP: Special Education Music Therapy Assessment Process

No, I don't expect someone not in special ed or music therapy to understand it. :))