Teaser Tuesdays -- October 5, 2010 -- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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! 

It was so happy to have a familiar food, after weeks of nothing but wilted flowers, that for several days it slept right next to the huge piece of portobello, waking throughout the day to reach up and nibble before sinking back into a well-fed slumber.  Each night a surprisingly large portion of the mushroom would vanish, until, by the end of the week, the very last piece had disappeared.

p.30, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

This is a lovely little book that my daughter and I have been enjoying (it's classed/shelved as adult non-fiction).  The author is bedridden with an illness -- holding a book for even a few minutes takes a level of strength and concentration that she just doesn't have.  When a friend finds a small snail in the woods, the snail becomes Bailey's bedside companion.  We aren't quite 1/4 of the way through but I'm pretty sure I'll be giving this one five stars on Amazon.