Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teasers:
"No, it isn't moonlight, he sees; it is the sulfurous illumination that afflicts busy paved places all night. Though the hour is near eleven, a traffic of giant trucks heaves and snorts and groans through the sleepy stone town; the realtor's big window is full of Polaroid snapshots of property for sale, and Route 23, once a narrow road on the bridge between two farm valleys as dark at night as manure, now blazes with the signs that are everywhere." - Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
"But summer comes and he, Cromwell, knows he has gone to the brink and must feel his way back. Henry is too timid, Tyndale too intransigent." - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
9 comments:
Excellent snippet! I always had mixed feelings about John Updike's work, but -- WOW -- that man could write. :-)
good one!
Here's mine
I haven't read Updike in forever. Great teaser!
Wonderful writing. Great teaser. My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2010/01/teaser-tuesdays-knit-purl-die.html
The only updike I've read is Witches of Eaastwick, and I loved it!
My teaser this week is creepy but funny! Here's a link.
I like the description of the traffic- really gives a good mental image.
My teaser is here
I haven't read either book. My teaser is from Brideshead Revisited.
Nice teasers! How are you finding Wolf Hall?
Those are both interesting in different ways. Good choices!
My "headline" teaser is here.
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