The Last Dance

Teaser Tuesdays - April 26

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!

I can't believe it's taken me this long to read this classic, but then it wasn't on the booklist when I was at school (I have no idea why).

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

'"What a sweet woman Lady Middleton is!" said Lucy Steele.
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when politeness required it, always fell. She did her best when thus called on, by speaking of Lady Middleton with more warmth than she felt, though with far less than Miss Lucy.'

I find it a real struggle to read this book. Part of it is the way words are spelled differently to how we spell them now.
I think I prefer watching the movie, although I recently discovered the new BBC mini-series version and really like that.
One thing that now makes more sense (no pun intended) is why Mrs John Dashwood was so insistent that her husband not give his sisters any money. I believe she wanted to preserve the family fortune for her son.

2010 Reading Challenge - week 28

Last week marked the half-way point in this challenge, and I am happy to report that I am over half-way towards my goal of 160 Christian books for the year.

This week I read 2 books. This takes me to 108 books for the year, and 67.5%!

They were:

• Possibilities by Debra White Smith (a modern twist on Jane Austen's novel, Persuasion)
• Northpointe Chalet by Debra White Smith (a modern twist on Jane Austen's novel, Northanger Abbey)

I'm currently reading:

• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada
• Finding God in Hidden Places by Joni Eareckson Tada
• Between Sundays by Karen Kingsbury

Teaser Tuesdays - July 13

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!

'Northpointe Chalet' by Debra White Smith

'A gust of wind whistled around the aging building. The apartment, nestled atop Kathy's bookstore, groaned like a soul tormented from ancient of days. The drapes fiercly surged.

I must have left the window open. The practical thought both disappointed and comforted. Then Kathy remembered shutting and locking the window before donning her satin pajamas and crawling into bed. Both comfort and disappointment plummeted.

Kathy glanced toward her telephone sitting on the nightstand on the other side of the bed. The shadowed distance between her and the phone stretched into an insurmountable chasm, too difficult to span for a terrified soul trapped by rigid terror.

For but a second the drapes halted their activity, only to shiver through the final throes of the captive's determination to reveal himself. Kathy released her copy of Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Works, gripped her throat, and lunged for the phone. Nothing could stop her calling for help now ... nothing ... except the cordless receiver was not in its cradle.'

No, this is not actually a thriller! This is a modern twist on Jane Austen's novel, 'Northanger Abbey.'

Who are you according to Jane Austen?

Take the Quiz here!

This is who I am, according to the quiz. I probably could have guessed this without the quiz.