Teaser Tuesdays: Something's Wrong ... Very ... Wrong ...

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!

My review of The Men Who Stare at Goats is still coming (I hope to write it in a little) but in the meantime, here is a teaser from my current read, Gary Krist’s historical account of the 1910 Wellington Avalanche which is considered the worst avalanche in American history. It’s a fascinating and harrowing account, and I always love reading about local history … especially those events that are largely forgotten, and in the case of the Wellington Avalanche that in and of itself is a tragedy.

The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche

by Gary Krist

(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007)

Hardcover, 315 Pages, Nonfiction

ISBN: 9780805077056, US$26.00

MY TEASER: “When Lewis Jesseph awoke on Wednesday morning, it was immediately apparent to him that something was wrong. The train he was on, which should have been rocking along the flat coastal plain toward Puget Sound, was instead standing at a dead halt” (45).