Category: Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesday

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teaser-tuesdayI read on Aviannschild’s blog how she modifies the rules for Teaser Tuesday and it took my fancy. Instead of choosing two sentences from the beginning of the page pick two or three ‘teaser’ sentences, more or less at random from the book, anywhere on the page. (The official rules are here.)

My teaser today is from page 140 of Irène Némirovksy’s Fire in the Blood:fire-in-the-blood

What I could not foresee was the flame that would be locked inside me, whose cinders would continue to glow for years to come, to burn in my heart. How strange it is when something that we have desired so much actually happens.

Teaser Tuesday

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Each week for Teaser Tuesday the idea is to pick two sentences between lines 7 and 12 from any page in the book you’re currently reading without giving away ‘spoilers’.

This week’s teaser is not quite conforming to the rules as it is more than two sentences and is between lines 11 and 15 from page 17 of The Various Flavours of Coffee by Anthony Capella:

‘A merchant is someone who trades. Ergo, if I do not trade, I am not a merchant.’

‘But a writer, by the same token, must therefore be someone who writes,’ I pointed out. ‘It is not strictly necessary to be read as well. Only desirable.’

Teaser Tuesday

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Each week for Teaser Tuesday the idea is to pick two sentences from any page in the book you’™re currently reading without giving away ‘œspoilers’.

This week’s teaser is from Georgette Heyer’s Detection Unlimited, page 61:

The prospect of having to give evidence at an inquest seemed to affect Miss Warrenby almost as poignantly as its cause, and it was several minutes before she could be reconciled to it. She reiterated her conviction that her uncle would have strongly disliked it, and was only partly soothed by an assurance from Miss Patterdale that neither the post-mortem examination nor the inquest would preclude her from burying her uncle with all the ceremonial she seemed to consider was his due.

Teaser Tuesday

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Each Week for Teaser Tuesday the idea is to pick two sentences from any page in the book you’™re currently reading without giving away ‘œspoilers’.

Once again my teaser sentences are from Les Miserables (page 840):

To weave a sound rope out of a blanket, bore holes in a door, cook up false papers, make skeleton keys, cut through leg-irons, hide everything and get away using the rope, it takes skill to do all that. You’ve got to know your business.

Whew!

Teaser Tuesday

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MizB at Should be Reading hosts this weekly teaser. The idea is to pick two sentences from any page in the book you’re currently reading without giving away “spoilers”.

I’m still reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo so here from today’s reading are three sentences from page 764. This is from one of Hugo’s meditations or digressions that he intersperses in the story just when you want to know what happens next. This meditation appealed to me when I read it today. He has been describing the wild garden of the house where Valjean and Cosette are currently living and he is contemplating Nature and Life:

Nothing is truly small, as anyone knows who has peered into the secrets of Nature. Though philosophy may reach no final conclusion as to original cause or ultimate extent, the contemplative mind is moved to ecstasy by this merging of forces into unity. Everything works upon everything else.

Teaser Tuesday – Two Today

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 The Teaser Tuesday (hosted by Should be Reading) rules are:

  • 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!

My Friend Maigret (Penguin Red Classics)

I bent the rules a little as today’™s Teaser is four sentences from just outside the 12 line limit from page 30 of My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon:

Maigret was hungry. And he was also anxious to see his English colleague in less formal attire. It made him feel awkward, for no very definite reason. He was not accustomed to conducting a case in the company of a man in swimming costume.

I chose this extract as it shows the relationship between Maigret and Mr Pyke, the English detective who is “shadowing” Maigret as he carries out his investigations. Maigret feels very much under observation and self-conscious.

D wondered what Teaser Tuesday is (doesn’t he read my blog???). I explained and he offered this teaser from page 110 of the book he’s currently reading Russia: a Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People by Jonathan Dimbleby:

It was all these things and more that provoked a sense of corruption, decay, drift and failure – and a longing to leave almost as soon as I arrived.

And then came Gorbachev, ascending the Kremlin throne to usher in perestroika and glasnost while severing the bonds that imprisoned eastern Europe under Soviet hegemony.