TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

1. Grab your current read.
2. Let the book fall open to a random page.
3. 3. Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
4. 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.

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

1. Grab your current read.
2. 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.
4. 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!

“To be sure, my dear mother, your anxiety — I was unlucky there.”
“What is the matter?” asked her ladyship in the heavy tone of one half roused, “I was not asleep.”
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Yesterday afternoon I had the urge to read Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice*, an urge I couldn’t resist, no matter how tired/down/blah I was feeling. Of course this meant I had to go and search through some of my boxes in the shed since I didn’t have the book on hand. Fortunately the boxes are not difficult to find and me being the compulsive organiser have everything well labelled for occasions such as this. P&P was found without much fuss, along with a few other things.

I ended up going through a couple of boxes that had some of my ornaments, framed photos and things like that. I haven’t seen a lot of this stuff in over a year so I was really pleased to dig it out, so much so I picked out a few things to add to my room. I am very strapped for space so I can’t keep many ornaments or anything out since there is no shelving, but I think I have used what space I do have to show off some of my favourite things.

After I gathered what I’d found I began cleaning, tidying and slightly rearranging my room. I felt so good for having done it, and my anxiety levels went down as a result. Christine commented on my post yesterday about lack of enthusiasm saying that tackling the tiniest tasks first is a good way to breed motivation. She is right, of course, and I knew that before but even the tiniest things seemed ginormous. However, after doing more to my room I feel that I have made some progress and now want to get some other things done. I guess it was the little spark I needed, coupled with Christine’s reinforcement (thanks, Christine!)

*I’m really having a Jane phase at the moment. P&P is the only novel of hers that I own, but I have three film adaptations of her work on DVD and they all happen to be some of my favourite movies. I’ve been watching them all a lot, lately.