Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
- 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!)
- Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the “savage” as European rather than as some native in the jungle. Fawcett, quoting a companion, wrote that cannibalism “at least provides a reasonable motive for killing a man, which is more than you can say for civilized warfare.”
pg. 187 of The Lost City of Z by David Grann
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!
The Literary Omnivore 
Sounds good to me!
Teaser Tuesady: Miss Hildreth Wore Brown by Olivia deBelle Byrd
That’s a different way of looking at it! Living things kill to eat, there’s a motive. War suddenly doesn’t make any sense does it!
Here’s mine: http://mywordlyobsessions.wordpress.com
Ah, that is so true…and it sounds like a fascinating book.
Here’s mine:
http://rainysnowday.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/teaser-tuesdays-dec-7/
Very interesting teaser, quite different! Nice one. Mine is at The Crowded Leaf.
Here is my teaser from Witchgrass: A Pipe Dream by Dave Wilkinson (Page 1):
Most gardeners hate witchgrass. Of all weeds it is one of the most persistent and adaptable. Any small piece of rhizome left in the soil can become an aggressive plant ready to take over the plot. Witchgrass is hard to pull. Roots are deep, and break off easily. Any part left in the ground will grow again. Farmers say the species isn’t even good as hay, not as good as timothy or alfalfa. Some call it quickgrass.
Early New England colonists blamed evil people for this garden invader. In the seventeenth century villagers would speak this way:
“The surly woman living alone on her dead husband’s estate. She goes into the woods and consorts with the Devil. Signs his book. Fornicates with him. Eats mushrooms. She and the Devil send witchgrass to harass the virtuous and the Godly. Let us hang this witch and seize her rich farm.”
Thats a mouthful of teaser….I hope that you are enjoying your book. Check out My Teaser for Tuesday.
I don’t have a blog, but I can share my teaser here:
“After the formalities were over and Acharya had read Giri’s new poems, he once again found himself transported — flying, weightless, over the crowded streets and alleys that these poems described. When he finished reading, Acharya could feel himself smiling.”
From “Arresting God in Kathmandu” by Samrat Upadhyay