Today’s teasers:
“& I’m licking cherry-swirl ice cream from the spoon looping my tongue around the spoon saying, ‘Grandma, hey no. Don’t cry. The world is not ever that different.'”
From page 140 of Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
” Well, don’t get carried away. While it is technically true that the average ‘height expectancy’ of prehistoric men was about three feet, it’s a misleading sort of truth. Like overconfident declarations about the universality of marriage, poverty, and war, it’s the sort of assertion that sows confusion and results in a harvest of misleading data.”
From page 200 of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
We’ve got a little psychokiller and a little social science. Fun stuff I tell ya.
What are you reading?
Among Stories 
I surprised myself by liking the second one out of your two teasers.
My teaser is here
I especially enjoyed the psychokiller teaser, it does sound like fun stuff! I don’t want to know what that says about me though…
Here‘s our teaser for the week.
Very intriguing! Sounds good to me!
Teaser Tuesady: Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Byrd
Hi there! Really like your teasers. I read Oates earlier this year ‘Rape: A Love Story’ and loved her writing style. I’ll be putting ‘Zombie’ on my TBR.
Here’s mine: http://mywordlyobsessions.wordpress.com
Wow, I haven’t read that JCO book…sounds fabulous. So is the second one.
Here’s mine:
http://rainysnowday.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/teaser-tuesdays-dec-7/
Interesting teasers. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.
Here is my teaser from Witchgrass: A Pipe Dream by Dave Wilkinson (Page 1):
Most gardeners hate witchgrass. Of all weeds it is one of the most persistent and adaptable. Any small piece of rhizome left in the soil can become an aggressive plant ready to take over the plot. Witchgrass is hard to pull. Roots are deep, and break off easily. Any part left in the ground will grow again. Farmers say the species isn’t even good as hay, not as good as timothy or alfalfa. Some call it quickgrass.
Early New England colonists blamed evil people for this garden invader. In the seventeenth century villagers would speak this way:
“The surly woman living alone on her dead husband’s estate. She goes into the woods and consorts with the Devil. Signs his book. Fornicates with him. Eats mushrooms. She and the Devil send witchgrass to harass the virtuous and the Godly. Let us hang this witch and seize her rich farm.”
Interesting teaser…I hope that you are enjoying your book. Check out My Teaser for Tuesday.