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Mar 24, 2009

Teaser Tuesday


Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should be Reading:

Drumroll please...... my first Teaser Tuesdays :)
rGrab your current read.
rLet the book fall open to a random page.
rShare with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
rYou also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
rPlease avoid spoilers!


The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Theft, Murder & Detection by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, release date April 3, 2009

page 146, line 8

"Thus Bertillon soon realized that, in addition to the strain of ten daily hours of rote copying, every minute of his time was wasted on an activity that was of no use whatsoever. The schoolboy who refused to spend time on subjects that he didn't like now reasserted himself."

~~I am enjoying this book, I am not very far with it though. There is alot of information on a whole new topic for me (Paris) and there is so much background that it goes into that I wasn't expecting. But so far, so good..