Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along by doing the following:
• 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!
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
(~ The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Kindle Edition, 2005)
[I have recently mentioned this in my roundup of great historical fiction. I must add this one reads at some moments like a mystery and in others like a sophisticated horror. If you are a fan of Vlad Dracula -the historical figure that inspired Bram Stoker -this is a novel you must read.]
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays’ post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here and/or in The Purple Booker.
I really enjoyed this book – perhaps a little lengthy here and there but I loved the writing.
Lynn 😀
I totally agree! But definitively fascinating 🙂
“Commander Riker had actually managed to enrage Ambassador Spock. Data could tell by the slight twitch at the corner of the ambassador’s mouth.” From “The Return” by William Shatner
Satisfying my curiosity about Shatner’s writing, which is not really his I suspect, but his co-writers Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. This novel picks up right after where the movie “Star Trek: Generations” ends, i.e. right after Captain Kirk dies and Captain Picard buries him. For anyone interested in the Star Trek universe, the story in this novel is actually pretty good, the writing serviceable, and the entertainment value high. At this point, however, I’m far more interested in the movies than the many books the Star Trek universe has spawned by a variety of authors, so I don’t think I’ll be reading anymore of Shatner’s books. (smile)
Thanks for that. I have actually never *read* a Star Trek book, now that I think about it…! 😀
This does sound good. I wouldn’t pick it up on the title alone. Your recommendation helps. This week I am featuring Deja Moo by Kristen Weiss. Happy reading!
Happy to hear that. It’s worth reading. 🙂
Well, with such a fascinating myth, this is one book I intend to read! Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂
I’m curious to know what you make of it 🙂
I haven’t read this one, though I have it on my TBR pile – thank you for the recommendation, Steph:)
I think you can appreciate the good research here, in addition to the writing 🙂
Oh, I need to track it down – my teaching degree specialism was history…