Well-Mannered Frivolity

Tuesday Teaser

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!

"Red Lake had a one-room schoolhouse with an oil stove in a corner, a desk for the teacher, a row of benches for the kids, and a slated blackboard that made me especially happy, as a lot of schools lacked them. On the other hand, a lot of one-room schools had a teacherage attached, where the teacher lived, but the one in Red Lake didn't so I slept on the floor of the school in my bedroll"                                       

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls

This book is even better than her memoir "Glass Castles" if you can believe it.

Wendy

Teaser Tuesday

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!

"He was now free to wander the upstairs halls and private rooms of the club, free to get acquainted with the nooks and crannies of the mansion where he'd be spending so much of his social life  going forward. To his surprise, last night he'd discovered that there were even bedrooms upstairs in the club-even though nobody actually lived there."

The Accidentall Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich

I forgot to note the page number before I closed the book and now I can't find it. Sorry.

Peace,

Wendy

I tagged myself

This is just for fun so copy this entire post and paste into your own post. Change all the answers so that they apply to you and TAG someone else! I am not going to tag anyone, but play along, if you like.

1) First thing you wash in the shower? my face
2) What color is your fav hoodie? My black 'rated R superstar' edge hoodie
3) Do you plan outfits? The night before, per flylady
4) How are you feeling RIGHT now? hypomanic
5) What's the closest thing to you thats red? my shirt
6) Tell me about the last dream you remember having? I dreamed that I gave my friend Allen a bag of m&ms as a thank you gift for serving in the military as a mothers day present.
7) Did you meet anybody new today? No, haven't left the house yet
 8) What are you craving right now? A cherry coke zero
9) Do you floss? yes 10
) What comes to mind when I say cabbage? bubble and squeak
11) Are you emotional? Ha! Very
12) Have you ever counted to 1,000? yes
13) Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it? lick it hurts my teeth to bite into it
14) Do you like your hair? Eh, it keeps my head warm
15) Have you ever met a celebrity? I once met Rodney Dangerfield in the lobby of the Las Vegas Hilton when I was a kid.
16) Do you like cottage cheese? yes with fruit
17) What are you listening to right now? Jane's Addiction
18) How many countries have you visited? Counting this one, one
19) Are your parents strict? I had a pretty early curfew.  They were very liberal in how I dressed and what I read.  They were cool.
20) Would you go sky diving? Only if the lives of my children depended on it
21) Would you have dinner with George W. Bush? I'm to shy.  I'd probably spill food all over myself
22) Would you throw potatoes at him? Mentally, yes
23) Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in? my daughter Mary Jane is wearing about 200 shiny bangle bracelets.
24) Have you ever been in a castle? At Disney
25) Do you rent movies often? We have a Blockbuster.com account, We pick the movies and they mail them to us.
26) Have you ever made a prank phone call? Yes, but caller ID has put a damper on that
27) Do you own a gun? No, I'm not supposed to own one.  Something about contracting for safety blah blah blah
28) Can you count backwards from 74? Yes, I count backwards from 100 to help me fall asleep
29) Brown or white eggs? Either, organic
30) Ever been on a train? I took a train to DC with the safety patrol in the 6th grade and to New York City with the Beta Club in the 8th grade
31) Are you too forgiving? I forgive pretty easily.  It's forgetting that I have a problem with
32) Do you use Chap-Stick? Just lipstick
33) What is your best friend doing tomorrow? Having small group with me and my other BFFs.  She will probably also take her boys to baseball practice.
34) Can you use chop sticks? no, I have a hard enough time with a fork.  See answer number 21
35) Ever had cream puffs? Yes
36) What was the last CD you bought? I last cd I downloaded from iTunes was the Juno soundtrack. The last actual CD I bought was In Rainbows by Radiohead
37) Is your hair curly? Somewhat. I have to whip it into submission
38) Ever walked into a wall? Yes, I'm quite clumsy
39) Fav time of the year? Autumn
40) Favorite color? pink
41) Are you sarcastic? Duh
2) Do you have any tattoos? No, but my husband has 5 so far
43) Do you sleep with the TV on? No
44) What is your favorite animal? That's a toss up between our cats Simon and Jennyanydots and our bearded dragon Chavo.
45) Can you hula hoop? I can swing it around on my arm.

Wendy