Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Tuesday Teasers


I haven’t done this in a while, so I decided to tease you with a few sentences from what I am reading. The rules are simple.

• 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!

One book I am reading is called Speedboat by Renata Adler. Here is a fairly recent article from the New York Review- Books. I chose to read this book because it was the first book on David Foster Wallace’s literature class syllabus back in his teaching days. He fascinates me. [As a side note: He taught at my university for almost ten years, although after I had already graduate.]

 Page 70:

“Sometimes the point is a momentum, a fact, a quality, a voice, an imitation, a thing said or unsaid.”

“You cannot be forever watching for the point, or you lose the simplest thing: being a major character in your own life.”

There you have it! I have just recently started this book, but I am excited to pick it up later for more.


Thanks to Miz B at Should Be Reading for giving us book lovers a place to share.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

As a huge fan of Wallace's work, that list intrigues me. I'll definitely check it out and look into Speedboat as well. Thanks for sharing!

Gina said...

It intrigued me, too.

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

Interesting thoughts...it is definitely important to be a major character in your own life. Thanks for sharing, and here's mine: “THE POCKET WIFE”

Alice Audrey said...

Great teaser. Very philosophical.