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.
“It was obvious that a condottiere, a mercenary, could not afford to have friends. He was going to live by the sword, but he certainly wasn’t going to die by it, or let the deaths of others trouble him too much.”
(~The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee, Paperback Edition, 2013)
[An interesting non-fiction book that reads like a novel. While there are some statements I don’t agree with, it presents a fascinating insight on the less-known aspects of the historical period everybody considers (with a reason) the pinnacle of beauty and brilliance.]
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.
Even that little snippet shows a great narrative voice. I’m in.
Mine: http://www.aliceaudrey.com/?p=16424
Thanks for sharing yours. Going to check it out 🙂
Doesn’t sound like he’s very empathetic. But, maybe he needs to be that way to survive. My Teaser
Well, historians are generally not. But still… 😀
Ooo… is this like an adult version of the Horrible Histories series?
Sort of. It is actually well researched, but definitively a dark, dark tale of the Renaissance. Nothing new, to be fair, (as a French-Italian transplant in Scotland, I grew up with stories of the Borgia and the Religion Wars), but still… 😀
Yes… but probably a little more of a different spin from those of us south of the border, whose history lessons took a different slant. Sounds fun, though – in a dark, dark way…