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.
“Literature, Dr Polidori, is my natural form of survival. I recommend that you try it: try eating the books you read.”
( ~ The Merciful Women by Federico Andahazi, Kindle Edition, 2000)
[This is the second novel from the best-selling Argentine author of The Anatomist, and it’s a brilliant and at times chilling retelling of the birth of the Gothic novel. The blub tells it all:It is Switzerland, 1816. Percy Shelley and his wife Mary, and Byron’s physician Dr Polidori are ensconced in the Villa Diodati. Polidori enters a Faustian pact with Annette Legrand, where she will produce a vampire tale for him. What can he, in return, offer this ghostly female predator? A must-read for all the Byron-lovers out there.]
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’ve been known to devour books, but I’m not sure it’s the same meaning.
eheh, I guess not 🙂
1. “chi è più istruito, se così si può dire, e abusa dei lumi acquisiti, dirà con l’angelo Jesrad di Zadig che non c’è male da cui non nasca un bene, e dunque è lecito abbandonarsi al male, poiché di fatto il male è uno tra i modi per produrre il bene.”
2. “al piano generale è indifferente che il tale o il talaltro sia buono invece che cattivo; dunque se la sventura perseguita la virtù, se la prosperità si accompagna al crimine e crimine e virtù sono uguali dal punto di vista della Natura, è infinitamente più saggio prender partito tra i malvagi che prosperano, piuttosto che tra i virtuosi votati alla rovina.”
De Sade, Donatien-Alphonse F.. “Justine: ovvero Le disavventure della virtù” (Italian Edition) (posizioni nel Kindle: 1. 618-620 2. 620-623). MONDADORI. Edizione del Kindle.
Many thanks Chango! I haven’t read a line from De Sade’s books in years, but I remember this one from high school.