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Teaser Tuesday (25 July)

Steph P. Bianchini

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.

Anyone can play along by doing the following:

“No matter how she looked at it, or her feelings for Harry, she would still say the same thing. There are just some compromises that cannot be made without compromising the foundation of your life. ”

(~ The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr., Kindle Edition, 1976)

[ Something different from my usual genre fiction, from the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream. Unsettling, chilling, but definitively worth a reading.]

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.

 

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11 responses to “Teaser Tuesday (25 July)”

  1. Laurel-Rain Snow Avatar
    Laurel-Rain Snow

    I’ve never read this author, but I like “unsettling” and “chilling.” Thanks for sharing, and here’s mine: “HEARTBREAK HOTEL”

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini Avatar
      Steph P. Bianchini

      Many thanks Laurel, going to check it out.

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  2. Alice Audrey Avatar
    Alice Audrey

    You’ve got me interested.

    Mine is at http://www.aliceaudrey.com/?p=14978

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini Avatar
      Steph P. Bianchini

      Somehow a difficult read, but well worth the effort. Incidentally, I couldn’t find your TT, the link it’s to your website only.

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  3. mysm2000 Avatar
    mysm2000

    I really like your teaser but not certain I’m up for a “chilling” read. Hope you enjoy it. Here’s the link to my teaser and intro from Wedlock: http://wp.me/p4DMf0-1za

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini Avatar
      Steph P. Bianchini

      thanks, going to check it out!

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  4. sjhigbee Avatar
    sjhigbee

    That’s an interesting tease… And the cover is plain disturbing – I cannot quite make out what it is, just that it looks very, very wrong! I hope you’re enjoying this one, Steph:)

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini Avatar
      Steph P. Bianchini

      I agree, and the author is well known for writing disturbing books. I have to say this one is more literary than, say, Last Exit to Brooklyn. Well written, if you can stomach the rest… I have mixed feelings. 🙂

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  5. sjhigbee Avatar
    sjhigbee

    Ah… This one isn’t for me then, though I appreciate you sharing it:)

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  6. David Lee Summers Avatar
    David Lee Summers

    Before the pedals had gone around ten times Arabella was already streaming with sweat–sweat that in the close warm dark of belowdecks refused to evaporate, and which in a state of free descent did not even have the decency to run down her face. Instead, it clung to her forehead and temples and cheeks, stinging and blinding her eyes no matter how much she blinked and shook it away.

    A little bit of a change of pace from your teaser (which I liked!) This is from my current read — the Andre Norton-winning novel Arabella of Mars by David D. Levine — near the end of Chapter 9.

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    1. Steph P. Bianchini Avatar
      Steph P. Bianchini

      I like this one -thanks, David, for the suggestion!

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