Monday, March 29, 2010

Teaser Tuesday - 300310

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


Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

What I Know in Myself is my own Evil. THat is the secret of my comfort.


pg. 23 (Dimensions).



This book is a collection of short stories and the ones I have read so far are quite good. Most of them are easy to read and make you think. The stories are about complex people so that makes them interesting and none of them have the traditional "happy happy" style endings or anything like that. They are actually kind of unsettling in some ways. Definently not a book to read if you need a cheer up.

20 comments:

Cecelia said...

Know thyself - that's the great directive, isn't it? I think most every human is cognizant of a little bit of evil within themselves. It's what makes us human...

But that mused upon (or whatever) - nice teaser! It made me philosophize a bit, which isn't usual. I liked it. *grin*

If you'd like, you can check out mine here.

Jennifer said...

Now that is an intriguing teaser!

Clarissa said...

Celia - I am glad the teaser made you philophise :) Yes - we all have some dark thoughts inside us.

pussreboots said...

Enjoy your book. My TT is here.

Heather said...

A very deep and heavy teaser! My post is here: The Botticelli Secret

Beth said...

Sounds like an interesting read. Here is my teaser for this week.

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

Oh, I've been eyeing this one! I like Alice Munro's work.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict said...

Great teaser!

I really want to explore more Alice Munro books. This one sounds good.

BooksPlease said...

I liked Alice Munro's The View from Castle Rock. this one looks good too.

Clarissa said...

Thanks for the positive comments everyone

Jan von Harz said...

Love stories that leave you thinking or unsettled. Sounds like a great collection. Enjoy!

Novroz said...

Interesting teaser

Alayne said...

Beautiful teaser. I think I read part of this years ago. Thanks for sharing it. My teaser is at The Crowded Leaf.

Jenny Q said...

That's a great teaser! Here's my teaser for The Kitchen House.

justpeachy36 said...

That's a really interesting teaser! Looks like a great book.

Here is mine:

http://debsbookbag.blogspot.com/2010/03/teaser-tuesday-16.html

Yvonne said...

Intriguing teaser!

Mine is here

Michelle said...

I love the cover.

My `teaser` is up.

Alice Audrey said...

So the title is a bit deceptive, but the cover makes up for it. Interesting reading you've been doing.

Sarah said...

Interesting teaser! I have never read anything by Alice Munro.

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Mardel said...

I love those two sentences. What's scary is that this is probably true of most of us, in that we have our own evil,but we don't admit it.