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.
“I didn’t know what I thought of heaven above us or hell deep below, the fires supposed to be constantly stoked and tended. I was afraid to tell her what I feared: that both places were kingdoms of air…And for all the praying I’ve done in my life, I fear that prayers are bits of grain the birds drop to the wind.”
(~The Witch’s Trinity by Erika Mailman Kindle Edition, 2007)
[A fascinating historical novel about witchcraft. Having recently written a non-fiction article on this topic (more about this in a few weeks) I couldn’t overlook it, and rightly so: it is really good. ]
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 love the language – thank you for sharing this one, Steph. I’m glad you’re enjoying it so much and look forward to your thoughts when you’ve finished reading it:)
I’ll certainly do a review. It is quite special 🙂
I look forward to reading it!
“The Hotel Mandeville was rather plush, but by no means as expensive as the Dorchester. Tom arrived at 8:15 p.m. and registered, giving his address as Villeperce-sur-Seine.”
My January reading project is the Ripliad, the five Tom Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith. This quote is from Ripley Underground, the second novel. Tom Ripley has been one of my favorite fictional characters since I first discovered him in 1999. I find it fascinating that Highsmith made him the protagonist of these crime novels — he’s essentially the villain. Of course, Tom doesn’t see it that way, which makes it all the more interesting.
Oh Patricia Highsmith! I do love her… it was quite a while I didn’t stumble into one of her novels! Thank you for reminding me 🙂
Tom Ripley is a treasure.