Random Quote #206

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. 

Mary Renault

Blog Blitz 2.0 And Deja Vu Is Coming...

As some of you will know I am a member of the Blog Blitz Team which was set up by DL Hammons to, for want of a better phrase, share the love in the blogosphere - basically every so often a victim someone is chosen randomly or recommended and we descend on their blog and leave them loads of great comments to make them smile, or in sometimes just to cheer them up :)

Anyway DL has decided to redo or restart the Blog Blitz team list, so if you were signed up before you'll have to go and sign up again if you want to continue to be part of the team. Or you can go and sign up for the first time if you weren't part of it the first time round.

You can go and sign up by clicking here, or by clicking the Blog Blitz logo over in the sidebar on the right.

And while I'm here and talking about DL a quick reminder that his Deja Vu Blogfest is now just under a month away. Basically on 19th December you just repost your favourite blog post from earlier in the year. To sign up for that click here.

So get clicking :)

It's Tuesday: Intros & Teasers

 To take part in Tuesday Intros, hosted by Bibliophile By The Sea, just post the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book you are currently reading or are going to read. The add your link to the list :)

And to take part in Teaser Tuesday, hosted by Should Be Reading:

• 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!

Then add your link to the comments.

Although I haven't finished the book I was reading last week I do currently have more than one book on the go so I can give you the intro and teaser from something different to last week.

Tuesday Intro

Pannonia, 453 CE

The Barbarian encampment was enormous, a great city that moved from place to place at the whim of its unquestioned ruler, the High King. But in the dim light of this predawn morning it was in chaos. Hundreds of thousands of warriors and their shrieking women and ungovernable offspring milled about.  Hundreds of thousands of horses, cattle, sheep and goats all bleated and neighed in the general alarm and made the dawn a cacophony of sounds. The stink of the livestock competed with the smoke of ten thousand fires being fanned to life at once.

Teaser Tuesday

"They could easily be a surveillance team for a much larger conspiracy," said Klein. "They've still offered no good explanation as to why they're following you and spying on you."

Page 60, The Tombs by Clive Cussler & Thomas Perry

Random Quote #205

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. 

David Nicholls

Tuesday: Intros & Teasers

This is what's up buttercup...

To take part in Tuesday Intros, hosted by Bibliophile By The Sea, just post the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book you are currently reading or are going to read. The add your link to the list :)

And to take part in Teaser Tuesday, hosted by Should Be Reading:

• 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!

Then add your link to the comments.

So here are mine for this week...

Tuesday Intro 

This is actually the first paragraph of the prologue

And the woman could hear those old friends moving in the distant, and not so distant rooms of her home. Old friends she tried to forget for longer than she had the strength to remember. Until she understood her life had been one long wait for them to show up and commence whatever business they were so eager to finish. Because the old friends never forgot. They arrived without warning. They visited after dark and they never let go.

Teaser Tuesday

"You stayed with The Last Gathering for two years. Why did it take you so long to leave?"

Loc 530, Last Days by Adam Nevill

Random Quote #204

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. 

Ivan Turgenev

Random Quote #203

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. 

Anna Quindlen