Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers!
- Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participiants can add the book to their to be read lists if they like your teasers!
I have a huge pile of TBR novels from the library at the moment and can hardly wait to read each and everyone of them! :) I'm currently reading two novels, Consequences of Sin, a mystery set it Edwardian England by Clare Langley-Hawthorne and Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, a historical novel telling the aftermath of the fall of Muslim Granada in the early 16th century, by Tariq Ali. Both books are firsts in a series. Consequences of Sin introduces Ursula Marlow, an heiress, an Oxford graduate and a passionate advocate of women's suffrage. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is the first book in Ali's quintet of novels tracing the history of Islam. Both seem very good this far. But, in addition to these novels I'm also reading an essay collection by Alberto Manguel called The Library at Night, "a meditation on the meaning and mysteries of libraries through history". My teaser comes from the first essay, where Manguel talks about his own library in a 15th century barn in the French countryside. These sentences are from a chapter on p. 17, where he writes about what he does to new acquisitions to his private library:
"Old and new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned."Isn't that great? :) I rarely read essays, but I'm really looking forward to reading this book!
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