Teaser Tuesdays -- October 12, 2010 -- The Danger Box by Blue Balliett

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! 

In one short day, I'd found out an amazing amount.  I knew that ~Darwin kept lots of notebooks, ~exploring nature was a big deal in those days, ~Darwin had been on the Beagle when the notebook I was holding was written.

~page 174, The Danger Box by Blue Balliett

This is my current read with my six-year-old daughter.  It took me quite a while to really start enjoying the story but I'm feeling better about it at this point. I'm enjoying the relationships between Zoomy and his grandparents and Zoomy's relationship with his new friend Lorrol as well.  The dad is so creepy it's just sort of sad.  I'll be interested to see how his whole situation pans out.  Balliett says the object that the book centers around is real -- and really missing -- and I find that intriguing.


One more quote that I wanted to share (Zoomy is the speaker):

Maybe everyone's life is a big, hoped-for plan with missing pieces, pieces that you only glimpse now and then.  Kind of like the way my eyes work; you only get to see what's right around you.  And you never stop hoping and praying that you'll run across what fits.  (p. 204)