Morbid Romantic

Book Review & Personal Blog

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

The townsfolk gathered in the meeting house burst forth in a fresh torrent of commentary as Goody Oliver pressed her lips together in satisfaction. She surrendered her disposition to Elias with great ceremony, remained standing a moment longer than was strictly necessary, and then resumed her seat.

- The Physick Book of Deliverance Dance (Katherine Howe), pg. 57

1. Get a driver’s license.
2. Finish remaking layouts for the various websites I have been neglecting.
3. Finish up my doujinshi / manga scans.
4. Finish going through coppermine galleries to reorder pictures.
5. Go through my clothes and give away what I don’t want anymore.
6. Reorganize my bookshelves.
7. Reread old essays, as well as type up those not digitized, and make appropriate edits.
8. Read at least 100 books.
9. Watch at least 150 movies.
10. Buy nephew a Blue’s Clues plushie.

Thanks to Travels of a Bookworm for allowing me to win a copy of Afraid by Jack Kilborn. This book has gotten really good reviews on Amazon.com, so I am looking forward to it.

Welcome to Safe Haven, Wisconsin. Miles from everything, with one road in and out, this peaceful town has never needed a full-time police force. Until now. A helicopter has crashed near Safe Haven and unleashed something horrifying. Now this merciless force is about to do what it does best. Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate. As residents begin dying in a storm of gory violence, Safe Haven’s only chance for survival will rest with an aging county sheriff, a firefighter, and a single mom. And each will have this harrowing thought: Maybe death hasn’t come to their town by accident . . .

It’s obvious by what is written on my sidebar but I have a degree in history as well as a certification to teach social studies to 6-12 students. For those two reasons, my history major senses are tingling with pure joy at this win. I just won a copy of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal from So Many Previous Books, So Little Time.

Not many children who entered Auschwitz lived to tell the tale. The American judge at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Czechoslovakia-born Buergenthal, is one of the few. A 10-year-old inmate in August 1944 at Birkenau, Buergenthal was one of the death camp’s youngest prisoners. He miraculously survived, thanks, among others, to a friendly kapo who made him an errand boy. Buergenthal’s authentic, moving tale reveals that his lifelong commitment to human rights sprang from the ashes of Auschwitz.