Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by LizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read.
- Open to a random page.
- Share 2 teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
- Be careful not to include spoilers.
- Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser today comes from The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker. The book won the IMPAC Prize this year. IMPAC is in fact one of my favorite literary prizes because of its global nature and the role of public libraries in the nomination process. This teaser is from page 18:
"Mother was an outrageously ugly woman. Someone who hadn't known her would probably consider the photo on the mantelpiece laughable: bony, pop-eyed farmer's wife with thrice-yearly hairdo does her best to assume a dignified pose."In addition to The Twin I'm also reading Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin in Finnish translation. Rocannon's World is Le Guin's first novel and is set in the Hainish universe. And I'm also still reading The Hammer and the Cross. I will pace parts of it between my fiction reads.
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