[Event] Teaser Tuesday: The Big Sleep

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!

My Teasers:

I said: "Know anything about rare old books?"
"You could try me."
"Would you have a Ben Hur, 1860, third edition, the one with the duplicated line on page 116?"

目前讀書會正閱讀 Raymond Chandler的《The Big Sleep》裡面的主角 Philip Marlowe 這位冷酷偵探一直讓我聯想到《The Maltese Falcon》的硬漢 Sam Spade。或許因為 Humphrey Bogart 主演過這兩個經典角色，所以腦子裡的印象和畫面重疊成「智趣的硬漢懸疑」，從上面那兩句 teasers 約略可以拼湊出這位私家偵探無所不知且觀察入微的形象。

[Event] Teaser Tuesday: The Elephant Vanishes

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!

My Teasers:

One winter, both the boy and the girl came down with the season's terrible influenza, and after drifting for weeks between life and death they lost all memory of their earlier years. When they awoke, their heads were as empty as the young D.H. Lawrence's piggy bank.   - 《The Elephant Vanishes》〈04. On Seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning 〉 by Haruki Murakami (translated by Jay Rubin) 

[Event] Teaser Tuesday: 萊辛頓的幽靈 -冰男

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 

My teaser:

永遠的過去，那毫無辦法的重量，將緊緊地絆住我們的腳。而我們已經再也無法掙脫它了。-p.72 〈冰男〉《萊辛頓的幽靈》by 村上春樹

The outrageous weight of the eternal past had grabbed us and wasn't going to let go. We'd never be able to shake free. -p.207 〈The Ice Man〉《Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman》by Haruki Murakami

The eternal past, heavy beyond all comprehension, had us in its grasp. We would never shake it off. -Translated by Richard L. Peterson (2003 The New Yorker) 

[Event] Teaser Tuesday: 萊辛頓的幽靈 -第七個男人

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!

My teaser:

「那海浪只差一點沒有捕捉到我。但另一方面卻吞走了對我來說非常重要的東西，把那帶到別的世界去。我花了漫長的歲月，才再一次發現並復元，那是無法復回的漫長而貴重的歲月。」-p.97 〈第七個男人〉《萊辛頓的幽靈》by 村上春樹

"It just barely missed me, but in my place it swallowed everything that mattered most to me and swept it off to another world. I took years to find it again and to recover from the experience- precious years that can never be replaced. -p.155 〈The Seventh Man〉《Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman》by Haruki Murakami  Translated by Jay Rubin

That wave only missed finishing me off by hair's breadth. But instead it drank up the most essential part of me, and transported it to another world. It took such a long time before I was finally completely recovered. So much precious time."
Translated by Christopher Allison

[Book] 莎拉的鑰匙 Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay

其實，這本來應該是Weekly Event -Teaser Tuesday的選書

這禮拜在聽Sarah's Key的有聲書整整10個小時，也是欲罷不能地連聽兩天

趁著中文書還在手邊，翻閱中文選這禮拜的teaser

喜歡參與每個禮拜的Teaser Tuesday，遊戲規格是隨意翻頁並選兩個句子（但是千萬不能有地雷）。和選擇佳句不同，因為隨機翻頁常意外地發現在閱讀時所沒注意到的段落

本來只是翻到254頁要選my teaser，結果就把在aNobii的註記貼過來，並且找出英文版本。

變成這一篇意圖不明四不像的筆記 

閱讀中文版時，一點都不覺得費力，覺得翻譯得很不錯。當然，我沒看過法文版，但是至少在閱讀過程中，我絲毫一點都沒被語言問題產生疑惑而停下來。和同期間閱讀的《雨的祈禱》比起來，裡面的發語詞讓我好在意阿。找個時間來把丹尼斯．勒翰(Dennis Lehane)的冷硬男女私探搭檔「派崔克∕安琪」系列從第一本看起。

[Event] Teaser Tuesday: after the quake

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!

My teaser: 

"Don't tell me any more. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feeling into words they will turn into lies." -p.78《after the quake》 by Haruki Murakami

[Event] Teaser Tuesday: The Little Prince

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!

My teaser:

"My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!" That was his first moment of regret.  -p.52 《The Little Prince》 by Antoine de Saint-Exupery