It's Not Always About MY Writing. . .

Writer's Workshop with Mama Kat.

Only it's not about MY writing, but a book I just read.  And I love reading as much as writing and this girl is good, so I am going to do as the prompt suggests and tease you a little with her wittiness.

1.) Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page and share two “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

Book title: Belong to Me

Author: Marisa de los Santos

The sentences--Page 49, lines 3 - 10:

At Lake's encouraging , and it didn't take much,  I poured out my tale of woe--okay, not woe exactly, but at least embarrassment and dislocation--and her vehement, beautifully timed interjections of "Tell me you're joking!" and "She did not!" were music to my ears.  By the time I got to the air-bag story, I was well on my way to being head over heels in like with Lake, and, when I got to the line "Safety first!" the horror-struck expression on her face--jaw dropped, eyes widened, eyebrows leaping--cemented it.

And just in case that doesn't convince you to read this touching, real, and hilarious book, I'll give you one more excerpt (This time from the 15 year old boy's perspective after he has just kissed THE girl for the first time and now her forehead is pressed to his--it's also worth noting his is brilliant and really into science, and cute to boot)--page 313:

With Clare's mouth this close to his, it was impossible not to  strongly consider kissing her again, even though Dev suspected that asking for anything more at this point might be interpreted (by God, the universe, whoever presided over these things) as a lack of appreciation for what had already happened, and Dev felt appreciative in every bone of his body.  Still, Clare's hair hung in glossy, sunlit curtains on either side of her face and the tips of their noses were almost touching, and the right thereness of Clare seemed to have a gravitational pull of its own (and, of course, technically, Clare did have such a pull, if you believed Sir Isaac Newton), and Dev was just beginning to question who he was to argue with gravity when Clare said, "I'm supposed to be inviting you to lunch."

It is the second book by her--a sequel, and I didn't read the first one (Love Walked In--I plan on reading it), but you never really felt like you were missing anything.  I think I loved it so much because her writing seems to mimic my own rambling, analogy spewing, circuitous mind.  It made me laugh out loud a lot. . .and cry a couple times.  I highly recommend it.  And since I consider summer the perfect time for reading I hope a few of you recommend good books.

Now go forth and enjoy summer!