Good morning, blogging world! Today is our opportunity to spotlight interesting themes in the books we’re reading.
Theme Thursdays is hosted by Reading Between Pages.
Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:
- A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
- Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
- Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
- It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”
This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.
This week’s theme is
BODY PARTS (Hands, feet, fingers, waist etc)
My excerpt is from She Makes it Look Easy, by Marybeth Whalen.
Now standing at a distance, it took me a moment to determine that the young woman with her was actually her older daughter. It appeared that the weight she had lost, her daughter had found. She slouched along beside her mom, a permanent sulk on her face, wearing skinny jeans that were not made for her figure and a T-shirt that read “I Didn’t Do It.” An unappealing white roll of flesh poked out between the jeans and her skirt. Her hair was no longer the blonde airy curls I remembered from back then, perennially clipped into ponytails with matching ribbons. Instead it was a dishwater blonde I imagined closely matched her mother’s real color, hanging dank and stringy around her acne-spotted face. p. 18
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It looks like this book will spotlight drastic changes in the characters…perhaps revealing some of the interior events that shake up the outsides. What did you find? Share, please!
That sounds like the daughter may be having some emotional issues to contend with.
This is my first week to play along with this meme.
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Welcome, Gigi Ann…I’ve enjoyed this meme so far. Thanks for stopping by, and you’re probably quite right about the daughter…and the mother, too, but that part wasn’t visible in this excerpt.
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This is definitely some “real world” description…no perfectly formed, flawless skinned beauties here.
Thanks for stopping by mine!
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Yes, I thought it was an interesting excerpt, considering that the themes of this book are comparing our insides with their “outsides.”
Thanks for stopping by, Bev.
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okay what is really going on?
I’m glad you stopped by my site for the Theme Thursday.
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Yes, that’s what I want to know, too, reading rendezvous….thanks for stopping by.
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Hi!
Sounds like something is wrong here. Interesting, I’ll have to check this book out. Have a great day!
Sherrie
Just Books
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Yes, I think so, Sherrie. Can’t wait to learn more! Thanks for stopping by.
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Your theme was very descriptive… Happy Thursday!
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Thanks, Tasha…glad you could stop by!
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Someone is obviously not aging well.
Great snippet. Thanks for stopping by.
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You could say that! I’m now really curious…thanks for stopping by, Lauren.
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Poor girl. Yes, it sounds like drastic change is needed all right. Also sounds like Mom isn’t paying attention.
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And since the mom in this story is the one who “makes it look easy” to the other mom, you can only imagine what has happened. Thanks for stopping by, Joy.
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That’s a great description! Poor kid, though. Thanks for stopping by my page!
http://www.booksandbarks.com/2011/07/theme-thursday_13.html
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Oh, I agree, jgriffin….thanks for stopping by.
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That really makes me want to know more! Great choice for this week.
Happy reading!
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Thanks, Cat…glad you could stop by!
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Excellent visual! Great choice!
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Thanks, Yvonne…I liked it, too. Glad you could stop by.
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+JMJ+
Oh, dear. It sounds like a difficult adolescence for that girl. I cringed at the “roll of flesh” bit. Nobody wants that. I hope there’s a happy ending for this “ugly duckling”!
Here is my post for this theme: Theme Thursday @ Shredded Cheddar (Yes, very late this week, I know! Mea culpa!)
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Thanks for stopping by, enbrethiliel….
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