TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
- Grab your current read.
- Let the book fall open to a random page.
- 3. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
- You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!
I’m reading three books at the moment, so you get three teasers this week (possibly to make up for the lack of Teaser Tuesday posts lately!).
One:
His father had been our ambassador at Madrid when Isabella was young and Prim unthought of, but had retired from the diplomatic service in a capricious moment of annoyance on not being offered the Embassy at Paris, a post to which he considered that he was fully entitled by reason of his birth, his indolence, the good English of his dispatches, and his inordinate passion for pleasure. The son, who had been his father’s secretary, had resigned along with his chief, somewhat foolishly as was thought at the time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
This is a re-read. The first time I read this, I was about 15 or 16. This time around I’m getting the subtleties more.
Two:
Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. She did not repent what she had done; she still thought herself a better judge of such a point of female right and refinement than he could be; but yet she had a sort of habitual respect for his judgment in general, which made her dislike having it so loudly against her; and to have him sitting just opposite to her in angry state, was very disagreeable.
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma is not my favourite Austen character based on the film adaptation of the story, so I am really interested to see if my opinion changes from reading the book.
Three:
They were two fish out of water, hideously uncomfortable and terrified of making a faux pas. Why is it that we commit our worst sins in a spirit of charity?
The Touch by Colleen McCullough
I’ve only just started this, so I’ve no idea if I like it or not.
