Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Grab your current read, open to a random page and share two teaser sentences from that page!
My teaser this week is from a science fiction book called Strata by Terry Pratchett. It is one of his first novels, and is sort of a prequel to the Discworld. Kin Arad, who is more than a couple of centuries old, works for a Company that designs planets. She is recruited, along with others, on an expedition to a miraculously odd planet – a flat earth! Here’s my teaser:
“We build worlds, we don’t just terraform planets. Robots could do that. We build places where the imagination of human beings can find an anchor.”
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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week there will be a new Top Ten list complete with one bloggers’ answers. This week’s topic:Top Ten Books That Should Be In A Beach Bag – Your perfect beach reads!
Where I read isn’t really an issue. The only things I wouldn’t like to read on a beach are books about terrifying sea monsters and people stranded on islands. Here’s my top ten anyway:
1. Any Harry Potter book – J.K Rowling: There is nowhere in the world I’d say no to reading this!
2. Life of Pi – Yann Martel: It has the ocean, but not the scary monsters, so that’s ok!
3. Marley and Me – John Grogan: Just the type of pure fun the beach calls for!
4. Good Omens – Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Another book I could read anywhere!
5. Three Men In A Boat – Jerome K. Jerome: I die laughing every time I read this – it has the perfect plot for a beach trip!!
6. Papillon – Henry Charrière: It’s been a long time since I read this one, and I’d love to read it again!
7. M is for Magic – Neil Gaiman: Awesome, funny short stories!!
8. Discworld books starring Death – Terry Pratchett: Mort, Reaper Man, Hogfather, etc!
9. Howl’s Moving Castle – Dianna Wynne Jones: One of the most fun books ever!!
10. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón: For after I get tired of laughing!
Tabula Rasa 
Very cool teaser… love Terry Pratchett
Here mine: tfwalsh.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/teaser-tuesday-angels-blood/
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An interesting teaser!
My TT is here 🙂 obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com
Have a nice week.
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Great teaser! 🙂 I have still to read that one.
Here's mine – thegreatthegoodandthebad.blogspot.com/2011/05/teaser-tuesday-9.html
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Interesting list of books. Seems like Terry Pratchett is a great summer read.
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Oooo Marley & Me is a great pick! I love Marley 🙂
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I haven't read several of these, but I totally agree with your assessment of the ones I know. I wish I'd thought to put Good Omens on my list!
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Harry Potter DEFINITELY! 😀 and Marley & Me is amazing…only saw the movie though. need to get my hands on the book! Nice list and Happy Reading! I'm a new follower 😀
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I loved Howl's Moving Castle and Good Omens too. Great list.
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Great list! The only one of those I would not take with me on holiday is Papillon.
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There are quite a few on here I've never heard of but am happy to have discovered. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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good teaser, interesting.
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Splendid list – I think Pratchett is going to crop up on a lot of lists, as will the ubiquitous Potter. Thanks for mentioning Papillon. I loved this when I read it years ago. I might have to re-read it!
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Great list! I had Terry Pratchett and Diana Wynne Jones on mine, too. And I just bought Howl's Moving Castle–can't wait to read it! 🙂
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Discworld books…I keep hearing about them. I'm going to try them this summer. Also I loved Howl's Moving Castle!
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I love your list! Marley and Me would be great beach reading and Harry Potter seems to be quite popular today. Kaye—the road goes ever ever on
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Great teaser!
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This is an excellent list. It reminds me that I need to read Three Men one of these days. Maybe this summer?
Here's my list of books I plan to put in my beach bag this summer.
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Ooh I've never read Marley and Me! I still need to!
great list! Thanks for coming by mine today!
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Tfwalsh – What's not to love 🙂
Jules – Do read it, I'm loving it!!
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Sarah – Ya, he's the most adorable thing!!
ILuvReadingTooMuch – Do read the book!! If you liked the movie, the book is way better 🙂
Bibliophile – Is it a bit too serious for a holiday? I loved it back when I read it though!!
Falaise – Ya, Papillon is a great book!!
Kaye – Harry Potter manages to make its into all my top ten lists!
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Interesting teaser. Added "Howl's Moving Castle" to my TBR, thanks.
Here's ours: ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/05/tuesday-teaser-chosen-one-and-if-you.html
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Good list, but I don't know if I would risk reading Marley and Me at the beach. It made me cry, a lot. I suppose I could just pretend there was sand in my eye.
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@LBC – I was in tears by the end too. But then I was laughing like hell throughout the rest of the book!!
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