Theme Thursday: Face

Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. It's a great way to discover new books and authors.

This week's theme is Face (Features), and here's my snippet, from Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly:

She was wearing a big coolie-style hat of vivid magenta straw. Beneath it her face showed its pinky reflection on the dead-white surface of her skin. She was heavily made up in an exotic un-English style. Dead-white matt skin; vivid cyclamen lips, mascara applied lavishly to the eyes. Her hair showed beneath the hat, black and smooth, fitting like a velvet cap. There was a languorous un-English beauty about the face. (p.25)

Theme Thursday: Yes!

Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. It's a great way to discover new books and authors, so here goes.

This week's theme is Yes!!! (or Okay, Sure, etc.), and here's my snippet (from Chapter 25 of The Key: A Miss Silver Mystery, by Patricia Wentworth):

"...there's a lot of difference between language and shooting people."
"Yes, indeed," said Miss Silver in reverential tones.

Theme Thursday: Ending

Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. It's a great way to discover new books and authors, so here goes.

This week's theme is Ending (last sentence from the last page of the book), which is a little tricky for some books (spoilers and all that). But this one from The Other Side of the Fire by Alice Thomas Ellis is nicely ambiguous, and brings to mind the old Buddy Holly/Paul Anka song:

It really didn't matter any more.

Theme Thursday: Food

Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. It's a great way to discover new books and authors, so here goes.

This week's theme is Food, and my offering is from The Solitary House, by Lynn Shepherd. The excerpt is from page 15 of the advance reader's edition. (Please remember that this quote may be different in the published edition.) I'm not sure that this is the very first reference to food in the book (this month's themes are supposed to be "pick what you see first"), but it's the first one that jumped out at me.

There's a snort and Charles looks round to see Wheeler staring down into the gaping grave, a half-eaten apple in his hand.

Theme Thursday: Feelings

Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. It's a great way to discover new books and authors, so here goes.

This week's theme is FEELINGS, and my snippet is from the book I just started reading, Antonia Fraser's Quiet as a Nun; these are the opening lines of the book:

Sometimes when I feel low, I study the Evening Standard as though for an examination. It was in that way I found the small item on the Home News page: NUN FOUND DEAD.

Theme Thursday: Body Parts

This is a new one for me. Theme Thursday is a weekly event hosted by Reading Between the Pages. Each Thursday, a theme is posted for that week. Participants select a conversation, snippet, or sentence from whatever book they're reading and post it for everyone to read. Sounds like a great way to discover new books and authors, so here goes.

This week's theme is BODY PARTS, and this excerpt is from John Verdon's new thriller, Shut Your Eyes Tight. It's taken from an uncorrected proof of the novel, so please remember that the quote may differ slightly in the published edition.

And I should probably put up a **GORE ALERT** before I start!

"The body was sitting in a chair at [a] small square table in the front room, six feet from the entry door." He grimaced, as one might at the smell of a skunk. "As I said, the body was sitting at the table. But the head was not on the body. The head was on the table in a pool of blood. On the table, facing the body, still wearing the tiara you saw in the video." (p.73)

Sorry. Hope you're not eating breakfast while you're reading this.