Category: Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesday

Published on by Margaret7 Comments

The Teaser Tuesday 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!

Today’s teaser is from page 73 of White Noise by Don DeLillo, which I am about to start reading. 

They picked up pebbles where he’d walked and took them home as souvenirs. Crowds came to hear him speak, crowds erotically charged, the masses he once called his only bride.

The blurb on the back cover informs me that this book is an extraorinarily funny book on a serious subject. It’s the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is the head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the Hill. His colleague Murray runs seminars on car crashes and he and Jack ponder the instances of celebrity death from Elvis to Marilyn to Hitler.

Teaser Tuesday – Huckleberry Finn

Published on by Margaret4 Comments

The Teaser Tuesday 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!

    • I’ve not followed all the rules for today’s Teaser because I haven’t opened Huckleberry Finn at random.

    I’m currently up to page 43 and as I didn’t want to open the book beyond where I’ve read, I opened it at page 43 at the bookmark. The two sentences I’ve picked between lines 7 and 12 are:

    ‘Have you got hairy arms and a hairy breast, Jim?’

    ‘What’s de use to ax dat question? don’ you see I has?’

    Jim first started to tell Huck what had happened to him on page 41 and I’m still finding it awkward reading what he says – I reck’n I’ll git used to it b’fo too long. Oh, and Jim says

    ‘Ef you’s got hairy arms en a hairy breas’, it’s a sign dat you’s agwyne to be rich’.

    There, I’ve broken the rules again – more than two sentences and one not in the right place!

    Teaser Tuesdays

    Published on by Margaret9 Comments

    The 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!

    • Today’s teaser comes from Dear Dodie: the Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove.

    ‘Just listen to the glorious silence,’ said Alec. ‘We are always happiest,’ wrote Dodie, to be on our own.’ (page 175)

    It is 1947 and Dodie and her husband Alec are living in America. She has nearly finished writing I Capture the Castle and Dodie’s friend Phyllis who had been staying, distracting Dodie from her writing, has just left.

    For more teasers see here.

    Teaser Tuesday

    Published on by Margaret7 Comments

    The 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!

    • Today’s teaser is from Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer (page 165).

    He arrived in excellent time to see Lord Wrotham, one hand under Hero’s chin, plant his kiss on her pretty lips. One moment he stood transfixed, the next he uttered a crashing oath, and took a hasty stride forward.

    Teaser Tuesday

    Published on by Margaret6 Comments

  • 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.

    Teaser Tuesdays

    Published on by Margaret3 Comments

    This is the first time I’ve done a Teaser Tuesday post, which Should be Reading hosts.

    The idea is that you:

     

  • 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 2 ‘œTeaser’ Sentences for today:

    Vivi was always the leader, even though she was younger: she’d have a plan, a contingency plan and an emergency strategy. But I’d be right there, next to her, following her every move.

    This is from The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams, which I collected from the library today. I haven’t started this book yet. I first read about it on several book blogs and thought it sounded an excellent book. The narrator is Ginny, the younger sister, a reclusive moth expert who has rarely ventured outside the house when Vivian returns after an absence of 47 years. It sounds quite spooky and I’d love to start reading it straight away.