Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Participants share two sentences from a random page of their current books.

So, I cleverly figured out how to download Amazon’s Kindle to PC to my husband’s tablet laptop.  Instant e-reader!  Huzzah!  I promptly downloaded Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, Committed, about her ambivalence toward marriage.  Since Eat, Pray, Love was one of my favorite books, I knew that I had to read this one!  Here’s a tease:

But surely something has been lost, as well, in our modern and intensely private, closed-off homes. Watching the Hmong women interact with each other, I got to wondering whether the evolution of the ever smaller and ever more nuclear Western family has put a particular strain on modern marriages.

While the book isn’t the same as her memoir, it has gotten me thinking more deeply about the institution of marriage.  I particularly enjoyed her overview of how Western marriages have evolved.

What’s your tease?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Participants share two sentences from a random page of their current books.

OK, one of the disadvantages of getting books through my library queue: I sometimes get books a little past the season I want them. For example, I’m now reading Over the Holidays by Sandra Harper when we’re all pretty much over the holidays!  However, it’s still a fun read.  Here’s a tease:

“Richard! Richard, do something!” Dropping the receiver with a clatter, Patience pinched the shoulder of her doting husband.  “Libby and that boy are going out for breakfast.”

Mind you, this scene takes place on Christmas morning.  Oh, the drama! 

Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard of them. The author that you think should be that famous and can’t understand why they’re not…

I love this question! It’s so much fun to share great writers who people may not have heard of.  I’ve got a super-archaic one plus a more recent one.

First up, from my school reading, Elia Wilkinson Peattie.  She’s an early feminist who wrote with a surprisingly upbeat attitude about women’s opportunities.  I love her novel, The Precipice, published in 1914.  You can check it out on Google Books.

As for something newer, we’ll go with my new favorite writer as of last week, Joanne Rendell.  She has similar positive views about what women can accomplish, both privately and professionally.  Her newest novel is Crossing Washington Square.

Now, I’m off to find your response. Can’t wait to see what people say!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Participants share two sentences from a random page of their current books.

Here’s my tease from Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead.  It’s a great coming-of-age novel set in 1985 in Sag Harbor, an African-American community in the Hamptons.  Here’s a snippet:

Then there was the next out: How long are you out for? — and the competition had begun.  The magic answer was Through Labor Day or The Whole Summer.

This is a great read to chase off the mid-winter blues!  How about you?  What are you reading today?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Participants share two sentences from a random page of their current books.

I just finished reading Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939. It’s fascinating collective biography of prominent writers and artists.  I loved the “peek” into each unusual marriage.  Here’s a tease:

The curious stage of Vanessa’s relationship with Duncan Grant began with a bath she took in his presence.  It was November of 1911, and her marriage had evolved into a cordial friendship.

What’s your tease this week?