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!
This week's teaser is from a nonfiction book about ghosthunting called The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal by Marley Gibson, Patrick Burns, and Dave Schrader.
Trance mediums are not very common, as many psychics are a bit skeeved out by the idea of allowing their body to be controlled by outside forces. And seriously... can you blame them?
-p. 51
A vapor rose around the net, heavy with the noxious fumes of garlic and rosemary. My mind was poisoned; my head swam, my muscles sagged ...
ReplyDeleteFrom the Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud.
Love that book!
I would be pretty skeeved out by the idea of allowing my body to be controlled by an outside force.
ReplyDeleteI'm all about the paranormal stuff, but I've never read a nonfiction book about things like ghosthunting. I do love Paranormal State on TV though.
Is it a novel or some kind of serious guide?
ReplyDeleteI think it is a serious guide... but with some humor's sense.
ReplyDeleteI like the teaser.. controlling bodies.. creepy!
I don't blame them at all...that's pretty freakish. Great teaser!
ReplyDeleteIts scary just thinking about it. It would be like being posessed
ReplyDeleteThis sounds pretty good. I haven't really heard anything about it until now. Great teaser!
ReplyDeletei've heard a few bloggers have this in their mailboxs. is it a novel or something like a guide?
ReplyDeleteYup ... I'd have to draw the line at allowing anybody to possess my body. Unless it was ghost who'd have a burning desire to clean my house from top to bottom. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMarley Gibson who wrote Ghost Huntress? Cool.
ReplyDeleteThanks!