Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Teaser Tuesday ~ 18 Jan 11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read.
2. Open to a random page.
3. Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
4. 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!)
5. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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For my very first Teaser Tuesday I'm going to pick randomly from two of the books I'm reading now:

From Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue:
'Before 1400, it was possible to tell with some precision where in Britain a letter or manuscript was written just from the spellings. By 1500, this had become all but impossible.'

I've really been enjoying this book. Bryson has a very engaging writing style - and its just so interesting!




And from Jane Austen's Persuasion:
'The real circumstances of this pathetic piece of family history were that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year...'

What can I say!? I just love Austen.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2011 at 2:48 AM

    I LOVE Bill Bryson^^ thx for sharing those great teasers.

    here's mine: http://book-crazed.blogspot.com/2011/01/teaser-tuesday-12_18.html

    xoxo

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  2. TrishJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    Bryson is indeed very funny and engaging. My favourite book of his is The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid. I haven't come across Mother Tongue though, I'll have to pick up a copy for my collection.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    Hi Trish and BlackEyedDog!

    Sorry for the late reply - I'm new to blogging and have not worked out yet how to reply to you individually (?? SO frustrating).

    I love Bill Bryson generally, but am more a fan of his non-fiction work - and the best of the best is Mother Tongue so I hope you do get yourself a copy Trish!

    I had a look at your teaser, BlackEyedDog, and its a great one, thanks for the link!!

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