The past few days have been . . . not normal. I’ll post about that a bit later on.

Nonetheless, the wheel of time has once again turned to

Just in case you don’t know, Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! All you have to do is grab the book you’re currently reading, open to a random page and share two sentences from that page. But make sure you don’t share any spoilers!*

*I wish I could take credit for this introduction, but I shamelessly stole it from Heather over at bitsnbooks. To help me make amends, you should go check out her blog.

This week I’m reading The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean (the same Kean who wrote The Disappearing Spoon).

They gnawed the cartilage off bones and 
sucked the marrow out, and cooked up all 
the fleshy victuals - the heart, kidneys, 
brain, and, most succulent of all, the
liver.  And with that meal, in a
godforsaken cabin at eighty degrees north
latitude, European explorers first learned
a hard lesson about genetics - a lesson
other stubborn Arctic explorers would 
have to keep learning over and over, a
lesson scientists would not understand 
fully for centuries.

In Retrospect

I gave Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning 5/5 stars. My favorite story was “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury.”

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Today I’m off to the aquarium and maritime museum; look for photographs in the next Sunday Snapshots (a feature I just made up as I’m typing this – we’ll see how it goes).

Be that as it may, once again the wheel of time has turned to

Just in case you don’t know, Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! All you have to do is grab the book you’re currently reading, open to a random page and share two sentences from that page. But make sure you don’t share any spoilers!*

*I wish I could take credit for this introduction, but I shamelessly stole it from Heather over at bitsnbooks. To help me make amends, you should go check out her blog.

This week I’m reading Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman. I haven’t technically started it yet, but it’s next on my TBR pile, so I’ll just open a page at random . . .

OK, this is from “November Tale” on page 109:

The brazier was small and square and made
of an aged and fire-blackened metal that
might have been copper or brass.  It had
caught Eloise's eye at the garage sale
because it was twined with animals that
might have been dragons and might have 
been sea-snakes.  One of them was missing
its head.

I don’t know about you, but that’s tantalizing, right there! Makes me want to read it right now! Unfortunately, other items require my attention. Things like grading papers and preparing for end-of-term exams and sending out summer school remedial class notices (hopefully not).

And today, a field trip! Huzzah!

In Retrospect

I haven’t yet finished The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean, but of the 49% I have read, it’s absolutely wonderful; I plan on condensing and incorporating some of his anecdotes in next years’ classes.

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Twitter – where you can see my thoughts in 140 characters or less. Also, funny retweets.