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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! Just do the following: 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! My teaser comes from  A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving: "The worst part about being buried in a pile up to your chin was that the lumber yard dog, the Eastman's slobbering boxer, a mindless beast with halitosis vile enough to give you visions of corpses uprooted from their graves. This dog with the mouth of death was then summoned to lick your face, and with the sawdust packed all around you, as arm less as Watahantowet's totem, you were powerless to fend the dog off....

Title:   People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks Publisher: Penguin Audio Format: Audio Book Narrator: Edwina Wren Time: 13 hours 58 minutes Genre: Fiction, religion Synopsis: Inspired by a true story,  People of the Book  is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called "a tour de force"by the  San Francisco Chronicle , this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding-an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Review: Over the y...

I finally broke down and registered my own domain and will be relocating the blog to http://www.ReadingGrrl.com in the next few days.  I don't know what that will do to those of you who are already subscribed. You may have to change the link if you link back to this blog though so check back within the next week! 

Title: The City of Blood (Paris Homicide Book 3) by Frederique Molay Publisher: Le French Book Pages: 219 Format: kindle Genre: Mystery I received an advanced e-copy of this book through netgalley from the publisher. It is due to be published January 20, 2015.  Synopsis:  When a major Parisian modern art event gets unexpected attention on live TV, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters rush to La Villette park and museum complex. There, renowned artist Samuel Cassian is inaugurating the first archeological dig of modern art, three decades after burying the leftovers of a banquet. In front of reporters from around the world, excavators uncover a skeleton. Could it be the artist’s own son? And does that death have anything to do with the current string of nightclub murders by the “Paris Butcher”? On the site of the French capital's former slaughterhouses, the investigation takes Nico and France's top criminal investigation division from a...