Author: Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Publisher: Penguin Books
Details: 352 Pages
Genre: Memoir, History
The dawn was so calm that he couldn’t make sense of the frantic desire he felt to breathe. He untangled his hands from the blanket’s tight cocoon with nightmarish inefficiency, then flung them toward his head, where it lay, exposed to the elements on a bare slab of rock. His mouth and nose were sculpted shut beneath a smooth mask of ice. Mortenson tore the ice free and took his first deep, satisfying breath. Then he sat up, laughing at himself. - pg 17
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Teaser Tuesdays' Rules
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- 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!
15 comments:
Oh just leave us in total suspense wont you! LOL Great teaser :)
Good teaser! This sounds like one Gerard might like.
Here's our TT:
http://ourstack.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-tuesday-hard-cache-confession.html
Great teaser! Combined with the cover I'm rather intrigued! Check out my Tuesday here
http://kyliesreads.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-tuesday.html
(Had to delete my previous comment, pasted the wrong link! Oops!)
Great teaser; this was a great memoir.
This is such a good book! I hope you're enjoying it :)
This is such a good book! I hope you're enjoying it :)
I really love the feel of your teaser. Thanks for sharing it :)
You can find my teaser at The Bookish Snob
Great teaser from a great book. Be sure to also read Stones into Schools - his follow up to this one (he also wrote Stones himself) Enjoy!
Sarah
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Thanks for the treatment of waiting!
This teaser makes me feel very claustrophobic! My teaer is at The Crowded Leaf.
I want to read this book. Great choice for the teaser!
http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-time_08.html
I have this in my TBR pile, can't wait to get to it :)
I was like .. oh my gosh! Is he FROZEN? and then he laughs .. so totally a great teaser, mainly because it's confusing .. or maybe that's because it's late at night and I really SHOULD be asleep! LOL! I love the cover on this one too! My teaser is from Dismantled by Jennifer McMahon: http://jewelknits.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-tuesdays-november-9-2010.html
Julie @ Knitting and Sundries
Such a vivid language. Am wondering which novel starts like this. You say the genre is memoir, so is it a real story? The man is really frozen?
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