Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat.
Anyone can play along! Just do 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!
“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”
(~ The Bacchae by Euripides, Penguin Classics, 2001)
[Note: Euripides is one of my all-time favourite authors, since I was in high school and obliged (!) to learn how to translate from Ancient Greek. This tragedy was one of many (quite clumsy, I have to admit) attempts – but it stayed with me over the years because of its extraordinary modernity, the strength of the characters and the beauty of its verses. Incidentally – doesn’t the quote sound like something from House of Cards?]
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 Books and a Beat’s blog.
Wow – that’s a hefty read, Steph. I’ve never actually read any of the great Greek tragedies and one of these days I really should – especially after reading Jo Walton’s marvellous Thessaly trilogy. This is my offering…
https://sjhigbee.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-4th-october-2016/
I think you could like it if you enjoyed Walton’s (amazing) series. To be honest, it’s not that hefty if read in Modern English 😀
It has been a very long time since I read one of the Greek classics!
My teaser this week: https://collinesblog.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-the-murderers-daughter/
Tragedy is one of my favourite genres, and the Greeks, well, they’re the masters, aren’t they? 😉
This brought two contrasting images to my mind. Shaping a sculpture out of soft clay, and pulverizing an already-formed sculpture trying to change it after firing. A powerful quote for me!
Mine this week from The Girl from the Sea: https://wp.me/p3Nz8P-Wu
Wow, that sounds as the start of a good flash fiction piece – great images. Thanks for sharing your weekly reading, going to have a look!
Not one for me. I hope you are enjoying it again.
My TT from Putting On The Witch
thanks – going to check it out!
House of Cards was my first thought when I read your teaser today–and I see you made that connection too. 🙂 I have never read this, but you make it sound like I should. Thank you for sharing!
Interesting to have had the same idea – probably because the Greeks knew one thing or two about democracy… on top of creating the concept, and the words for it! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
I remember reading this back in high school (a really long time ago), I don’t really want to repeat it, but it is amazing how much of it I can see in other books, plays and movies. Here’s my teaser: https://booksbeforebandaids.com/2016/10/04/teaser-tuesday-october-4/
I agree 100%. Thanks for sharing yours, going to have a look.
True. I have never read anything by Euripides but then, I try to avoid classics of any kind. My teaser this week comes from the latest Otherworld anthology – Otherworld Chills by Kelley Armstrong. Happy reading!
That one sounds intriguing – I’ll have to give it a try.
“Early next morning there was a sound as of chains being drawn roughly overhead; the steady heart of the Euphrosyne slowly ceased to beat; and Helen, poking her nose above deck, saw a stationary castle upon a stationary hill. They had dropped anchor in the mouth of the Tagus, and instead of cleaving new waves perpetually, the same waves kept returning and washing against the sides of the ship.” The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Oh, I *love* Virginia Woolf, hope you’re enjoying it. thanks for this quote 🙂
I’ve never read Euripides but you’ve bot me thinking now that I’d like to. Here’s my teaser and intro from Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden: http://wp.me/p4DMf0-1jv
thanks for that – I’m going to have a look at it asap!