Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Teaser & 1st Paragraph

Lifting the Wheel of Karma . . . .

Hosted at Bibliophile by the Sea
Every Tuesday, she'll be posting the opening paragraph (maybe two) of her current read. Why don't you join us?

The harrowing landscape was a disorienting mix of darkness and hypnotic light that appeared to ignore the rules governing its path, causing the eye to question what it saw. Joseph, aged seventeen, ran through lush vegetation in the entangled forest as he wielded a sword in his left hand. The sword was of a thin steel with a curve that extended from the handle to the tip. Carved into the sides of the steel were ornate designs of unknown origin. The handle was made of ivory and was capped with a slightly oversized gold tip to make sure the pinky finger was held in place when in use--which it surely was to be now.

Lifting the Wheel of Karma
Paul H. Magid




Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme,
hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
1. Grab your current read Open to a random page
2. 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!
3. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


"There are more important things than walking, you know?" Madhu said.

"Like what?" Joseph asked.

"Like kissing," Madhu replied while smiling at him.


Lifting the Wheel of Karma
Paul H. Magid


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5 comments:

(Diane) Bibliophile By the Sea said...

WOW, the fist 2 sentences really drew me in, but then when I read about the sword, I wondered whether this one would be for me??

Hope you enjoy it and thanks for participating.

Happy new Year

Nise' said...

The intro did grab my attention and the teaser had me smiling!

Gigi Ann said...

I don't think this is my kind of reading, but, it was quite interesting.

The TT was a cute one. I liked it. ; )

Paulita said...

I like the intro and the teaser. Here's Mine

Bev Hankins said...

Gina: You are the winner of the Color Coded Reading Challenge! Please email me at phryne1969 AT gmail DOT com to confirm your win and find out about prize options.

Congratulations!

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New blog goal for 2010. I'm going to try keeping a running total of the following. We'll see how long it lasts... well, let's try this again for 2011! Just remember, anything with an ISBN counts, even the short stories.
Up to date as of December 18 (to the best of my knowledge)

Books read, new: 231
Books read, re-read: 27
New to me authors: 64
Pages: 19,841 plus 168 ebooks
Reviews posted: 29


Nonfiction: 10
Picture Books to Young Adult: 34
Banned/Challenged Books: none? fix this next year!