I’ve decided to join Teaser Tuesdays, which a worthy cause in honor and support of the almighty love of books – described below:
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!
To add a teaser to your own blog or make comments on shouldbereading.com, go here:
http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/teaser-tuesdays-july-16/
That said: here’s my teaser from Jeneration X by Jen Lancaster:
“Because I’m all about urban archeology, I scooped up the wet pile of garbage [over spill from the vacant lot next door], drying out the pieces on paper towels lining my counters. And I found a letter to an ex-resident from the State Unemployment Office explaining that one cannot FILE for unemployment if one has never actually held a job.”
While I had to resist the urge to add a couple exclamation marks (!!) to the end of the last sentence above because I thought it was hysterical, ya gotta love JEN! She makes ordinary life and ordinary chaos absolutely hilarious. And her books are so relatable – like the chapter about Jen’s experience with the dreaded swim SKIRT.
That said, Ms. Lancaster is one of my favorite writers, and if anyone decides to check out Jeneration X, I hope you enjoy it as much as I am! And, no, it’s not her first book. I’m a book behind. But anyway…my husband is constantly asking me what I’m laughing about when I drag JenX into the loo!
He’s even let me read a few passages aloud (will wonders never cease from the man whose eyeballs turn to very dull orbs of annoyance if I dare suggest reading ANYTHING to him cuz yeah, he hasn’t read a book since Book IV of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series was first published in ’95 or ’96)… and though Jen has written 7 other memoirs, you don’t have to read all of them to GET Jeneration X. Her first book though, Bitter is the New Black, is probably the best.
And for anyone who’s ever TRIED to spy on an obnoxious neighbor, Jen does so with totally Ninja finesse, and what she discovers about the porn-surfing neighbor next door in Bucktown (in Chicago) is priceless! And though Jen is a tad voyeur-ish in all her books, her exploits in Jen X create a new character, in my opinion: Jen-Sherlock VanBond, so make sure you’re close to the privy when you read that chapter in case your laughter causes your plumbing to spring a LEAK!
Many thanks to Ms. Biz for creating a forum to share our favorite tomes!
Happy Tuesday, All!
TenaciousB and her band of truth-spouting hippes…:)
