Teaser Tuesdays: thoughts as deep as snow drifts

TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should be Reading; I’ve modified this version to allow more than two sentences from anywhere on the page:

Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us one or two “teaser” sentences” from that page. Please 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!

Here are my two teaser sentences:

Snow frightens me: its relentlessness; its power to cover up all that’s familiar. I leaned my chin against the back of the couch and watched the feathery dots smash against the window.

This is from Woman Made of Sand, a book of linked short stories by Joann Kobin. I absolutely love her writing; it’s soft, yet powerful, much like the snow she describes in these two sentences. Have you ever heard snow described as feathery, yet able to smash at the same time? It’s a wonderful contradiction that made me pause when I read it.

What are you reading this week? Would you share a few teaser sentences?

Novroz

December 29th, 2009 at 8:23 am

I agree with you…your teaser does sounds both soft and powerful.

I might check this book one day…I love books with good metaphore

Laurel-Rain Snow

December 29th, 2009 at 9:03 am

This sounds beautiful!

My teaser:

http://laurel-rainsnowsreflections.blogspot.com/2009/12/teaser-tuesdays.html

Sandy

December 29th, 2009 at 9:15 am

We’ve had lots of feathery smashing in Indiana. We are now headed for the airport, and it is 5 degrees outside! Our frigid 41 degress in Florida is going to feel like a heat wave.