Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read and 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!
I am reading a non-fiction book – ANORAKS TO ZITTING CISTICOLA by Sean Dooley, it is an ‘A to Z’ of bird watching. It covers all the things that they don’t tell you in the guide books. Such things as how to look cool in binoculars, how not to get stuck with a bird bore, the correct way to throw up in a small boat out at sea and when it is acceptable to ‘pish’ in public. As you can tell it is a tongue in cheek look at serious stuff – very informative between the laughs.
Here is my teaser:
Pg 165 – “…The first time I pished in front of my then girlfriend was on a beach holiday, where in the dune scrub I told her I could attract the Varied Triller that I thought was hiding just out of sight. The Triller came immediately. My girlfriend was suitably impressed, the politely but firmly told me that I never pish in her presence again. I haven’t and we are married now, so let that be a lesson to all…”
OK – so WHAT is pishing? It is a noise that birders make that sounds like a small bird in distress, other small birds are quite concerned and fly in to investigate. The noise is made by making kissing noises either with your lips, or literally kissing the back of your hand noisily. Some birdwatchers are dead against this as they think it is mean to tease little birds – others use it a lot.
from No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose.
Page 236 ” She writes a check every month. She’d applied for a scholarship and it looked like Caleb might have been eligible, but it fell through at the last minute.”
Page 236 “His control snapped and he rolled her beneath him, his hips hammering hard as she looked up at him, dazed. He hooked one arm under her knee, sending him even deeper into all that hot wet heat. His vision grayed. And he fell.
What is pishing? Until now I thought it was spam email, the kind people use to fish for your passwords and stuff.