Teaser Tuesday

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  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) ‘œteaser’ sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’™re getting your ‘œteaser‘ from ‘¦ that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’™ve given!
  • Please avoid spoilers!

    • I’m quoting two today. First from page 226 of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I have started to read this again after a long gap. I only have about 1100 pages to go to the end!

    Morning, like evening has its ghosts. He did not see them but was still conscious, as though by their physical presence, of the dark shapes of trees and hills making their mournful contribution to his violently agitated state of mind.

    Then, because the winner of the Man Booker Prize is being announced this evening I’m also going to give two sentences from one of the shortlisted books – page 76 of The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry.

    When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war.

    Which is to say Dr Grene came back today, with his questions at the ready.

    I just over half way into this book. I’d like to think it will be the winner, but I can’t really judge as this is only the second off the shortlist that I’ve read.

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    2. I’ve honestly never had the urge to give Les Miserables a try, but I don’t know, your teaser actually has me intrigued…

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    6. “They wouldn’t ‘kill’ me. My core beliefs would stand up. I couldn’t let them be challenged, even modified, without fearing that I’d lose the essence of the morality I valued. My dream wouldn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny, but I’m not a scientist.”

      From:
      Not In Kansas Anymore: Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You by Christine Wicker

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