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!
I'm reading nonfiction for a change. I started with a biography of Roger Federer and continue now with The Hammer and the Cross -A New History of the Vikings by Robert Ferguson. Some of you may remember that I have an MA in history and that the Viking Age is one of the historical periods I'm especially interested in. Ferguson's book is well written and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It is, however, a bit difficult to choose two sentences for a teaser from a history book! My teaser, which is from page 64, tells how Christian chroniclers and historians writing in the Middle Ages saw the Viking raiders:
" The thirteenth-century historian Roger of Wendover referred to a raid on Northumbria a few years later in 800, by 'the most impious armies of pagans [who] cruelly despoiled the churches of Hartness and Tynemouth, and returned with its plunder to the ships', after which the focus of the raiding turned to religious sites in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, a region which the Irish Christian scribes of the Annals of Ulster regarded as falling within their sphere of interest and of whose sufferings at the hands of the Vikings they duly opened an account. The annals of 794 note the 'devastation of all the islands of Britain by the Heathens', the following year that the Isle of Skye was 'overwhelmed and laid waste'."
Have you noticed already that the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize is out? Which book is your favorite? I don't think I have ever seen another list of this kind where I immediately wanted to read all the books mentioned! And my favorite, that is Room by Emma Donoghue.
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