ON BOOKS ~ The Human Stain (again)...

MizB asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
• Share the title of the book the teaser comes from…that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
• Please avoid spoilers!

From pgs. 106-107 of THE HUMAN STAIN by Philip Roth (fiction)...

"When the minister read, along with the biblical stuff, a selection from Julius Caesar out of his father's cherished volume of Shakespeare's plays - the oversized book with the floppy leather binding that, when Coleman was a small boy, always reminded him of a cocker spaniel - the son felt his father's majesty as never before: the grandeur of both his rise and his fall, the grandeur that, as a college freshman away for barely a month from the tiny enclosure of his East Orange home, Coleman had begun faintly to discern for what it was.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;

The valiant never taste of death but once."

(Yes, that is only 2 sentences. Roth is a bit long-winded. Now you can see why I am still on his book and likely will be next week too! I particularly liked his description of the book in this passage though.)