Teaser Tuesdays

I am playing Teaser Tuesdays, a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. The rules are

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
My teaser is from Live Wire by Harlan Coben p.121
"How did you mess up in the first place? By interfering. How do you intend to make up for it? By interfering."

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katherine Green

More a novella than a novel is published in 1905. The Amethyst box containing a tiny flask with a drop of deadly poison sufficient to kill a person goes missing on the eve of Sinclair's wedding. The suspects are the bride Gilbertine Murray and her cousin, Dorothy Camerden, in whom the narrator is interested. Somebody dies. Who killed and why? With just two suspects the suspicion moves from one to another and back again. There are a few twists too. Short and sweet.
The Ebook I downloaded also had two other stories -The house in the Mist and the Ruby and the Cladron. The Narrator is lost in mist in the night. Seeing lights from a distant house goes there to find all the doors open. So what does he see in the house, what happens is the story. It creates quite an atmosphere and there is a sense of foreboding.
The ruby and the cladron tells the story of a lost Ruby. Who stole the ruby and why? Interesting story.

Day 07 – Most underrated book

I would pick R K Narayan's Waiting for the Mahatma. His writing was so simple and his characters are so real. I love his Waiting for the Mahatma. It is the story of Sriram living in the fictional village of Malgudi who gets involved in freedom struggle because of his love for Bharthi, one of Mahatma's entourage.

Day 06 – A book that makes you sad

This had been pending for a while. Many of the classics with a tragic ending move me and make me sad. The Mill on the Floss, Jude the Obscure, Tess of D'urbervilles to name a few. But I am not going to write about it now. The Dairy of Anne Frank moved me very much. Anne Frank narrates her life in hiding for two years with her family in an apartment during holocaust. Imagine a teenager forced to live in hiding, who can't have lights in the night for the fear of people finding them out, who can't go for a walk to breathe fresh air, who can't have basic amenities of life like a bathroom. And finally a young life snuffed out before it can blossom. Not one but many millions killed. And this is not fiction.

Day 05 – A book that makes you happy

If Happy means contented then any good mystery book with all loose ends tied leaves me contented. Yes, all ends tied and everything explained. If happy means laughing, smiling on reading something then it is P G Wodehouse. I love his characters Jeeves, Wooster, Aunt Agatha, Lord Emsworth and of course the most gracious Empress. I love Wodehouse's turn of phrases that surely bring a smile on my face.

WWW: Wednesdays

I am playing WWW: Wednesdays hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading.

To play along just answer the following three questions....

*What are you currently reading?
*What did you just recently finish reading?
*What do you think you'll read next?

What are you currently reading?
The man in lower ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart published in 1906 and downloaded from Gutenberg. This is my first Rinehart book and I am enjoying it. The story narrated in first person is a murder mystery.

What did you just recently finish reading?
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. This is Agatha Christie's first book and I have read it before. It was as good as reading for the first time.


What do you think you'll read next?
Live Wire by Harlan Coben. I love Myron Bolitar books. This book is in nice big print and hopefully a great relief to the eyes after reading two ebooks. Hoping to be back in present times of Facebook and Internet after residing in 1900s for a while.

Day 04 Favourite book of your favourite series

I love most of the books in the alphabet series by Sue Grafton, can't just point one and say it is my favourite. Instead I am going to name a book from another favourite series. It is the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. If I had not read this book, I probably would not have read the other books in Harry Potter Series.
I was not really interested in the boy who lived or he who must not be named. I saw the first two movies but was never tempted to read the books, until somebody decided to gift me the third book in the series as my birthday gift. I decided to try it out and was fascinated by the Harry Potter World. There would probably be a girl who knows all the answers in everyone's school. And the strict teacher with special favourites who seems to have some kind of hidden agenda and loses no opportunity to punish you. I can go on and on about the series. I loved this book because of the way time travel is handled. A quick and fascinating read.