Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Teaser Tuesday: Camp Nine by Vivienne Schiffer

My teaser this week comes from a book that I am reading for an upcoming blog tour. My review of this book will be up on Thursday.

The teaser comes from page 76:

"One month," said Mrs Ochi. "Only one month to get one thousand stitches in the senninbari."

Mrs Matsui turned, her shoulders back and her face held high. "Plenty of time. I have a thousand friends to make the stitches."


I didn't actually know what a senninbari was so thought I would share this definition from Wikipedia:

A Senninbari (千人針 thousand-person-stitches?) or Thousand stitch belt is a strip of cloth, approximately one meter in length, decorated with 1000 stitches, given as an amulet by women to soldiers on their way to war as a part of the Shinto culture of Imperial Japan.

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8 comments:

  1. Seems like lots of bloggers are reading this one right now...I've got it on my WishList :)

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  2. It does sound like a book I'd enjoy.

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  3. I was wondering what senninbari meant, too. Thanks for sharing a definition. If you get a chance, my teaser is here.

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  4. Interesting .. and I learned something too.

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  5. I love this teaser, and have been hearing good things about this book. I can't wait to hear what you think of it when you are done! Great teaser today!

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  6. I'm constantly amazed by the Japanese culture so I might have to read this one!

    Here's mine: http://duckduckcow.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesday-stardust.html

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  7. Excellent teaser and thanks for the definition!

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