Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
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!
“An hour from now he’ll have had a skinful and he’ll be back. He’d set the place on fire if he thought I were in it.”
-Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, p. 10
I am going to be reading Wolf Hall section by section and discussing it on Twitter at the hashtag #WHall with Erin Deedy of Peachtree Publishing. Here’s our schedule:
April 15th – Part 1, pages 3-38
April 19th – Part 2, pages 39-132
April 22nd – Part 3, pages 133-234
April 26th – Part 4, pages 235-342
April 29th – Part 5, pages 343-434
May 5th – Part 6, pages 435 – end
Feel free to join us!
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I just finished this one. I’ll have to checkout the Twitter discussion.
I hope you have more luck than I am having with Wolf Hall. I am about 250 pages in and I can’t bring myself to pick it back up at this point.
I am reading a wonderful book of historical fiction, “Dear Bob, Dear Betty,” which is a collection of letters from Bob and Betty, and their courtship and love during the Great Depression. It’s by their daughter (she does a lot of putting the letters in context of the times, so it’s way more than just the letters, which makes it fascinating) — and her father, Bob, is the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Betty’s father was a friend of Wright’s and neither dad was any kind of good father at all.) So — this is Frank Lloyd Wright! So you get references like this, which I’m using for my teaser:
[[You made an ultra-favorable impression upon my step-mother and she has directed me to ask you to attend the annual Halloween party at Taliesin, which occurs on the 29th of this month.35 I have never been to one of these parties myself and I am afraid that, due to the presence of numerous out of town guests, the overnight accommodations36 may be somewhat crowded but I would like very much to take a chance on liking it if you will.”
Can you imagine what the annual Halloween party at Taliesin was like? Love this!
Ooooh. This book scared me off. I know it is supposed to be wonderful and everything, but I’m wondering if it is the best place to start for a historical fiction newbie like me.
I’ve heard great things about Wolf Hall. Enjoy.
Here’s my teaser at arch thinking.
I like your teaser! I can’t wait to see the discussion on Twitter.
Great teasers! Right now I’m thoroughly enjoying a book about a golfer entitled, “Straight Down the Middle,” which is the author’s personal memoir. Here’s a snippet or teaser for you: “I knew that my journey was bound to be filled with false
starts, pitfalls, and facing up to the demons that haunt my golf
game and my inner life. But I also knew that golf was a legitimate
vehicle toward greater self-knowledge.”
Hey, I would love to be a part of the discussion. Will start reading it today itself…
Vivek