Thursday, July 21, 2011

Theme Thursday - Smile - Gatsby

Theme Thursdays
Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:
  • A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
  • Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
  • Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
  • It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
    Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”
This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week’s theme is

SMILE (Laugh, Grin, Giggle, Guffaw, etc)

The Great Gatsby 

turned right to this one.

"We've met before," muttered Gatsby. His eyes glanced momentarily at me and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a LAUGH." The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

14 comments:

Tea said...

Luv it, what a good one. I did smile.

Laurel-Rain Snow said...

Oh, I like that one...and Gatsby is a great character. I always picture him as Robert Redford, now that I've seen the movie...LOL

Here's MY THURSDAY THEMES POST

Confuzzled Shannon said...

@ Tea glad I could make you smile.

@Laurel - I have never seen the movie kinda want to and I hear they are going to remake it soon.

kavyen said...

This is a nice one. Are you enjoying the read? A friend of mine has been recommending this book, will wait for your review as well.

Amy said...

Great pick this week! It was fun looking for mine: http://simpleloveofreading.blogspot.com/2011/07/theme-thursday-21.html

Landslide said...

I've never read this one, are you liking it so far?

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Frances said...

I love this book! Great choice.

Mine: http://alaskanbookcafe.blogspot.com/

Sherrie said...

Hi!
I've always wanted to read this book. Have a great day!

Sherrie
Just Books

Confuzzled Shannon said...

@kavyen and landside I am enjoying it! I read it once before when i was young and remember not liking it but I understand it better now. I started reading it again because of the vlogbrothers.

@Asimpleloveofreading - I will check out yours soon!

@Christina and Sherrie - Thanks for stopping by!

sinn said...

You know, I made it through an English degree and never read this book. Something about that seems entirely wrong! Nice snippet, though! I like the "aborted smile"!


Here's mine: http://sinnfulbooks.blogspot.com/2011/07/theme-thursday_21.html

sinn @ sinnful books

Confuzzled Shannon said...

@sinn Yeah I didn't think I would ever read it again but things change. lol Thanks for stopping by.

Sidne said...

You know, this is one of the most disliked book i had to read in school. snippet is nice though.

Yvonne said...

Good one! It's been a long time since I read this book.

Lauren B said...

Nice snippet even though I'm not a fan of Gatsby.