Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along:
• 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 the author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Last week, I went out and bought The Fault in Our Stars but
I didn’t want to read it. I wanted to savour preparing to read it: it’s on the
shelf facing outwards so I can look at it.
I had seen and heard interviews of John Green talking about
his work, and – for me – there’s nothing like an interview to send a reader out
to track down a book.
Typically me, when I became fascinated by the new book, I
went out to find the first.
Looking for Alaska? I didn’t know what I was expecting. What I found
was more than it anyway.
I started reading all about Miles. Miles and boarding
school. It was different, not the kind of boarding school story I was used to
reading. Probably because this was a male writer, I thought.
All totally absorbed, I was page turning and having a
wonderful time up to the point where my jaw dropped. I went back to check… but
no, I hadn’t got it wrong I’d tripped up over the plot twist. I turned back and
back. I re-read the whole book again up to the (can’t spoil it for you) plot
turn.
Amazingly, I hadn’t seen it coming. For the rest of the book I was wrung
through the wringer, ending up as puddle.
I loved the characters, loved the writing.
LOOKING FOR ALASKA by John Green
But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was
gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly
fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk,
thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
I need to recover from “Alaska” before I read “The Fault in
Our Stars” I’ve only got one heart and I need it.
WHY DO WE KEEP ASKING WHY?
