Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday...
Teaser from The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
CeeCee sat down across the table from Tim. It was an incongruous scene, she thought. Formal dining room, crystal chandelier, heavy gold jacquard draperies that must have cost a fortune, eating pizza on paper plates, planning a kidnapping.
(13%, The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain)
I'm not to this point in the book yet, but I can still picture the scene.
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers.
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Wishing for snow.
Okay, I'm not really wishing for snow, although it looks like it's in the forecast here for the next few days. I wish I could be snowed in, not have to take Amber to school, not go to work. That won't happen. We'll get a few inches, maybe a two-hour delay and that's about it, but I can dream.
If I were snowed in, what could I do. Well, there's plenty of stuff to do around the house: the never-ending dishes and laundry, finish cleaning out the storage room, dusting and vacuuming. But I'd rather do something fun. I could read all day, watch a movie with Amber. Alpha and Omega, which she's wanted to see since before it was in the theaters, is on-demand. Yes, she still loves wolves. I could play the piano. Oh, and I forgot to mention one of the most important things - sleep in.
Now, I'm afraid I'm going to regret "wishing for snow." Maybe I...
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino,
translated by Alexander O. Smith
All I can say is read this one, but read it all the way through. It's the end that makes it outstanding.
Set in Tokyo, the book starts out with a woman, Yasuko, killing her ex-husband to protect her daughter, so we know who the killer is, who was killed and why. Her neighbor, Ishigami, a brilliant mathematician, decides to help her cover up the murder, so we know who her accomplice is but not why he goes to such extremes to protect her.
I have to protect them, thought Ishigami. He would never be this close to so beautiful a woman ever again in his life. He was sure of that. He had to summon every last bit of his strength and knowlege to prevent any calamity from happening to her. (pg. 36, ARC)
Enter the detectives, a pair of good guys trying to figure out what happened. If it...
Aha!
Have I mentioned that Scrabble Flash is totally addictive? I admit that I have a fondness for word games in general, but you can stick this one in your purse, pull it out whenever you want, play solo and just keep playing. I like the game where it gives you 5 letter and you have to figure out what word they spell before time runs out. If you get it right it gives you another and another until you miss one.
A N Y E H
I'll be staring at the letters, unable to figure it out and then suddenly - Aha! Hyena! And then a new one - R T A E H. Earth. Seems easy enough, but the time limit adds pressure and the words seem to get harder the longer you play. Definitely a fun game, alone or with others. I'm glad David found it for me for Christmas, with direction from Amber. Of course, you can always purchase...