TUESDAY TEASER - SEDGWICK AND SNICKET - SOMETHING OLDER AND SOMETHING NEW

When the kitchen maids in Flood and Fang were going missing
this was where they should have been:
half way up a tree, and reading ;) 

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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I adored the Book Bites image (above)
it seemed very appropriate for my
book choice.

The book I have been enjoying today is full of unusual details, extensive vocabulary and beautifully crafted sentences. The gothic Otherhand family are far-removed-from-normal. They are all very strange. Their story is narrated by pompous Edgar, the raven, who maintains his distance. He becomes aware of the danger as he has a bird's eye view of everything that is unfolding around him. He recounts how the Otherhand family deal with the danger is original (slightly weird) and very funny.

FLOOD AND FANG ~THE RAVEN MYSTERIES Book 1

Ask an ornithologist what the lifespan of a raven is, and they will tell you with smug certainty that the raven lives for twenty years in the wild, maybe twice as long in captivity. So tell me then how it is that I can remember seeing the ancient oak on the far side of the valley when it sprouted from an acorn.

I love Edgar's voice. :D

The first pages of Lemony Snicket's new book have been posted on The Guardian's Children's book site! I LOVE the hook.

LEMONY SNICKET ~ "Who Could That Be at This Hour?"

There was a town, and there was a girl and there was a theft. I was living in the town, and I was hired to investigate the theft, and I thought the girl had nothing to do with it. I was almost thirteen and I was wrong. I was wrong about all of it.

ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR CURRENT READ? WHICH BOOK ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO READING?