Teaser Tuesday (116)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. I've never read anything by Dickens before, so a couple weeks ago I checked out this book and Oliver Twist from the library. I don't really know how his individual books are regarded, therefore Great Expectations is mostly being read by chance; I'm hoping it will be interesting.

And here I may remark that when Mr. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes. I cannot conceive why everybody of his standing who visited our house should always have put me through the same inflammatory process under similar circumstances.

-p. 72

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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? If so, any favorites? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (115)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan, which is an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories written by various authors combining Arthur Conan Doyle with H.P. Lovecraft. To be honest, I took it out of the library for one author--Neil Gaiman--whose story "A Study in Emerald" is included. It's quite a good story, and the others I've read are also well-written.

The thorned branches thrust sharply outward like claws, and the whole growth gave one the impression of many black entities congealed into a single one. Each step I took was laborious, each outthrust root a cause for alarm. 

-p. 91, "A Case of Royal Blood" by Steven-Elliot Altman

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Do you read anthologies? Who's one author you'll hunt down if you discover they've written something new? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (114)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I'm not very far in yet so I'm not sure what to make of it, the book being one of the so-called classics (I try to read classics during the summer each year). Though I do find some of the passages rather funny, if in a black, cynical sort of way.

The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government paid him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. 

-p. 79

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Have you ever read Catch-22? If so, what did you think? What are you reading right now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (113)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

Gosh, it's been a long time since I've done this meme. Over two months, really. Ahem. Anyway, this week my teaser is from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It's taken me a long time to get around to reading this book; with the recent NSA spying issue/debate and the general constant political concern that government is getting too big, I suppose it's better late than never.

(Not the cover of the copy I'm reading. But I couldn't find the right one.)

He lay back with his eyes shut, still sodden in the atmosphere of the dream. It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain.

-p. 161

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Have you read Nineteen Eighty-Four or anything else by George Orwell? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (112)

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted for Teaser Tuesday. Between recovering from surgery and the A to Z Challenge, I haven't blogged about what I'm reading since March 12. Time to get back into the swing of things, I think!

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of : The Most Astounding Papers on Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World edited by Stephen Hawking. I am excited to finally be able to read this book, since it includes some really landmark articles by Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, and other physicists.

 

Before proceeding to discuss the explicit significance of quantum mechanics it is perhaps right for me to deal briefly with this question as to the existence of matter waves in three-dimensional space, since the solution to this problem was only achieved by combining wave and quantum mechanics.
     A long time before quantum mechanics was developed Pauli had inferred from the laws in the Periodic System of the elements the well-known principle that a particular quantum state can at all times be occupied by only a single electron.

-p. 243, "The Development of Quantum Mechanics", by Werner Heisenberg

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What was the last book you were excited to read? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (111)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly, bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Though I sometimes miss the "weekly" part of the idea--I didn't post last week for TT. Sorry, everyone!

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from A Matter of Degrees by Gino Segrè. It's a science book about temperature and its affect on a range of different scientific fields. I've only read the introduction so far, but it seems quite fascinating.

(This is not the cover of the library book I'm reading. But I could find no good quality images of the one that's red with black and white text.)

Early caves have chemical evidence of wood fires from at least 200,000 years ago, the period of the transition from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens. These caves are marked by the accumulation of ashes containing minerals characteristically absorbed by trees.

-p. 43


What are you reading right now? If you're between books, what are you planning to read next?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (110)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Warped Passages by Lisa Randall, one of my all-time favorite scientists. I'm reading this book for the third time or so, mostly because every time I start it's so good I take forever on each chapter and then it's due at the library again. Sigh. But it is a really interesting book.

This relatively straightforward deduction has profound implications. Since all objects have the same acceleration in a uniform gravitational field, if this single acceleration could be canceled, the evidence of gravity would be canceled as well. 

-p. 97


Do you have any favorite scientists or science writers? What are you reading now, either fiction or non-fiction?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (109)

***In case you're here looking for my "She Said What" blogfest post, that will be up tomorrow. Hope you'll swing by then!***


Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie. I've been on a bit of an Agatha Christie spree lately, working through her books featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. They're a lot of fun to read, though I have to kind of stop myself from reading too many of them otherwise everything blurs together and they all start coming across as the same.

(This isn't actually the cover of the book I have. The one I'm reading is a library copy that has all-black binding and gold lettering, with no other decoration. This was the most interesting cover I could find instead.)

The mild eyes, the long obstinate mouth, the slightly upturned nose. Poor Dora, so maddening, so muddle-headed, so devoted and such a problem. A dear fussy old idiot and yet, in a queer way, with an instinctive sense of values.

-p. 15

(Since this is mystery, I was afraid to look at anything beyond the point I'd read up to. Hence the lower page number.)

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Have you ever read any books by Agatha Christie? Got any favorites? (Mine would be The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, at least so far.)

What are you reading now? Do you have a teaser to share?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (108)

Teaser Tuesday, hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading, is a weekly book-oriented meme.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from The Art of War by Sun Tzu, or Sun Zi, or Master Sun, or however you like to Anglicize his name. I'm reading it for fun (can you read books on war "for fun"?) because I haven't read many (translation: Basically zero) Asian classics and this one is fairly well-known.

A ruler can bring misfortune
     Upon his troops
     In three ways: 

     Ordering them
     To advance
     Or to retreat
     When they should not
     Is called
     Hobbling the army; 

     Ignorant interference
     In military decisions
     Confuses
     Officers and men; 

     Ignorant meddling
     In military appointments
     Perplexes
     Officers and men.

-p. 17 "Strategic Offensive"

(Hey, for once I'm not actually posting more than two sentences! I thought about putting up the next sentence as well, but that would have made for a teaser about twice as long as it already is. And it's pretty long.)

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Have you read The Art of War or any other Asian classic? What's your current read?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (107)

Teaser Tuesday is a meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week my teaser is from Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Technically I'm reading it for school, but since it's fiction and I've posted teasers from Russian novels before, I thought it would be fine for this post. I like the book so far; I don't love it, but it takes place in an interesting point in Russian history, right when the revolutions are taking place from the early 1900s through WWII.

The clay huts and geese in the settlement around the station, all scattered with spat-out hunks of sunflower seeds, sat white and frightened under the immobile gaze of the black, menacing sky.
     Bordering the station building was a wide clearing that stretched far to both sides. The grass on it was trampled down, and it was entirely covered by an immense crowd of people, who had spent weeks waiting for trains in the various directions each needed.

-p. 137

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Have you read Doctor Zhivago? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (106)

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. It happens every week, and anyone can join in.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week my teaser is from Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes edited by J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec. It's an anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories set in paranormal worlds. Normally I'd reject the idea of the deductive, logical Holmes in a setting devoid of more rigorous sciences, but I do love a good pastiche/parody/adaptation (as you can probably tell from the fact I've read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and Android Karenina).

"My dear friend," said Holmes, deep concern written upon his features, "please forgive me, but I could turn to no other for such a test. You have a heart that is genuinely good. Fair weather or foul, you are constant in your friendship, and so you have become a barometer by which I am able to gauge all that is noble in men."
   "I wanted to kill you! And I would have, had--"

-p. 66, "The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes" by Tom English


Do you like parodies or pastiches? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (105)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly, book-based meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Plugged by Eoin Colfer. I'm a huge fan of Colfer's MG/YA Artemis Fowl series as well as his sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy so I was quite excited to get my hands on this book.

All I can say is . . . it's odd. It's one of those books that seems to go by really fast but at the same time rather slowly; things are happening, yes, but 82 pages in I keep expecting something even bigger to occur, not just because of the blurb, and despite two people having died already. I don't know. I'm definitely going to finish the book, at any rate.

My bag is where it should be, and I quickly locate the toiletries that were strewn around the floor by whoever trashed the place but are now lined neatly along the green plastic sink top.
   I stuff them into the bag and collect one last essential. I keep ten years of savings, almost fifty thousand dollars, stashed in the sink drain for emergencies, and if this isn't an emergency, it's doing a good impersonation.

-p. 97


What are you reading right now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (104)

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted, every week, by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules for participating:

• 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!

This week my teaser is from Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. I'm thrilled to finally be reading one of his works; I'd heard of him and noticed his books (and even wrote a blog post about the guy) but I'd never gotten around to actually reading any of them. Physics of the Impossible is quite interesting: He explores when and how society might achieve certain technological capabilities (most of them from pop culture, which makes my nerdy side do the happy dance) such as invisibility, teleportation, telekinesis, time travel, etc., etc.

Given that the number of moons probably greatly outnumbers the number of planets in a solar system, and given that there could be millions of wandering planets in the galaxy, the number of astronomical bodies with life-forms in the universe might be much larger than previously believed.
   On the other hand, other astronomers have concluded, for a variety of reasons, that the chances for life on planets within the Goldilocks zone are probably much lower than originally estimated by Drake.

-p. 134

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Are there any books/authors you've heard about and want to read but haven't gotten around to yet? If so, which ones?

Got any teasers to share?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (103)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (or Dostoyevsky or Dostoevskii or however you like to spell it) translated by Constance Garnett. I recently read Notes from Underground for school and became interested in reading another work of his. Like all the Russian books that I've read, Crime and Punishment rambles on with long sentences, various tangents, extensive description, and lots of internal monologue, but the characters are interesting.

(This is not the edition I have. But since the edition I took out from the library is a falling-apart, yellowed, Modern Library version published in 1950, I couldn't exactly find the cover via image search.)

Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make a great point of punctiliousness, but who, directly they are crossed in anything, are completely disconcerted, and become more like sacks of flour than elegant and lively men of society. Again all was silent; Raskolnikov was obstinately mute, Avdotya Romanovna was unwilling to open the conversation too soon.

-p. 291


Have you ever read a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky? What are your favorite "classic" books, Russian or otherwise?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (102)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. It's a weekly, bookish meme.

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. How I found this book is a bit of a story--remember when Google had Ada Lovelace on their homepage a little while ago? Following the links in the search results, I noticed Wikipedia mentioned The Difference Engine under Cultural References as a steampunk novel that included Ada Lovelace. I thought it sounded cool, especially since I read Neuromancer by Gibson (and liked it). I'm not very far into this story yet (only 20 some pages) but Lovelace has already been mentioned.

Her room above the Hart seemed distant as childhood's first memories, here in the smell of slaughter, in this dark where giants moved--Houston reeled suddenly to slash at the curtains with his cane, tore them open, gas-light catching the patterns of frost on the glass of each mullioned pane, illuminating the Texian's kerchief and the grim eyes above it, eyes distant and merciless as winter stars. Houston staggered at the sight, the striped blanket sliding from his shoulders.

-p. 67

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Have you ever tried a book because it contained a particular character, either a real or fiction person? What are you reading now? Got any teasers to share?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (101)

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by MizB (Should Be Reading) every week.

Rules:

• 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!

This week my teaser is from The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. The book is actually available online for free, since they published it through a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0) license. I have to say the story is a little weird a short ways in (weird being subjective, of course) but I like it so far. And hey, who could resist reading a book with the subtitle "A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations"?

(I could look at this cover for a long time and speculate about how to put the pieces of machinery together. It's a busy image, but I think it's an effective sort of busy.)

As it turns out, like much of the newer local architecture it's an inflatable building, an outsized bounce-house made of metallic fabric and aerogel and compressed air. The whole thing could be deflated and carted elsewhere on a flatbed truck in a morning, or simply attached to a dirigible and lifted to a new spot. (A great safety-yellow gasket the size of a manhole cover sprouts from one side, hooked into power, bandwidth, sewage and water.)

-p. 45


What are you reading now, either fiction or non-fiction? Got any teasers to share?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (100)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly, bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. On a bit of a random note, I've finally hit 100 TT posts; but before I get carried away reading through them all, here's today's teaser!

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser comes from one of my favorite books, and one you've almost definitely heard of before: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. It's been years since I read it through, and I'll admit I was spurred to go back to it due to the upcoming release of the first movie. I'm more excited for the film trilogy now, especially after having seen Sherlock and Martin Freeman, who's Bilbo Baggins. (Interesting fact: They've cast Benedict Cumberbatch, from the same TV series, as the Necromancer (in addition to Smaug), yet the Necromancer doesn't actually appear in the book in any form other than references by Gandalf . . . anyone else curious to see what they've done with that?)

"What shall we do, what shall we do!" he cried. "Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say "out of the frying-pan into the fire" in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. 

-p. 109

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Have you read The Hobbit and/or The Lord of the Rings? What are you reading now and do you have a teaser from it?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (99)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. I'm finding it hard to believe I've done this thing almost 100 times, though of course some established bloggers have been doing it for far longer than that.

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz. I was ecstatic when I found out Arthur Conan Doyle's estate had allowed a Sherlock Holmes novel by someone other than Doyle to be written, because I'm a big fan of the original stories. I'm 70 pages in right now and Horowitz seems to be living up to Doyle's style, and the voice of John H. Watson, very well.

(I would call this a bland cover, but since Sherlock Holmes is such a famous character, I like the simplicity of just the title and fabric background. You certainly wouldn't want something distracting.)

Holmes slept in late the next morning and I was sitting on my own, reading The Martyrdom of Man, by Winwood Reade, a book that he had recommended to me on more than one occasion but which, I confess, I had found heavy going. I could see, however, why the author had appealed to my friend with his hatred of 'idleness and stupidity', his reverence for 'the divine intellect', his suggestion that 'It is the nature of man to reason from himself outwards.'

-p. 51

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Are there any other Sherlock Holmes fans out there? 

What are you reading now? Have you got a teaser from it?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (98)

Teaser Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading, is an event where participants post excerpts from the books they're reading.

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is non-fiction and from The Best Science Writing Online 2012 edited by Bora Zivkovic and Jennifer Ouellette. I mainly picked up this book because I follow BoingBoing and Maggie Koerth-Baker, who was published in this anthology, mentioned it in one of her blog posts. I was then further interested when I noticed Chad Orzel was one of the authors; I'm a fan of his after having read How to Teach Physics to Your Dog.

(It's hard to see when it's relatively small like this, but those periodic table-style squares on the cover actually contain the names of the authors included in the anthology.)

The flaw in this argument is assuming the body of water is characterized by only one parameter: its temperature. In general, there are other characteristics of the water that could be changed due to its heating: for instance, the amount of gas in solution; the presence of other solutes; the presence of convection currents; gradients of the distribution of the temperature of the container. Any, all, or none of these may in fact be the culprit, but it is important to realize that a body of water not in thermal equilibrium may have its behavior characterized by a number of different properties.

-p. 113, "Mpemba's Baffling Discovery", by Greg Gbur

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What was the last non-fiction book you enjoyed? What are you reading now?


-----The Golden Eagle

Teaser Tuesday (97)

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish, weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Rules:

• 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!

This week, my teaser is from Year Zero by Rob Reid, the same book I chose for the Did I Notice Your Book? Blogfest, back in October. Finally got a copy from my library. It's different from what I had expected from the blurb, but not in a negative way, so it's quite funny.

"The Townshend Line is the notional surface of a spherical region centered around the planet Earth," the androgynous, expressionless voice said. "It has a one-hundred-forty-four-light-year radius, and is the boundary of the most powerful force field ever created. It was built in 1978 to keep several trillion fans of The Who from storming the planet in hopes of attending one of the band's shows."

-p. 71

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What are you reading right now?


-----The Golden Eagle