Chapter 23: Teaser Tuesday 6.10.2009

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!

At the moment I'm reading a book that I have read many praising reviews about. In the story there is literature, and there is Paris. What more could one ask for? The book is, of course, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, and I'm loving every sentence of the story! :)

Here is my teaser:

"As it is not terribly common to come across a concierge waxing ecstatic over Death in Venice or to hear strains of Mahler wafting from her lodge, I delved into my hard-earned conjugal savings and bought a second television set that I could operate in my hideaway. Thus, the television in the front room, guardian of my cladestine activities, could bleat away and I was no longer forced to listen to inane nonsense fit for the brain of a clam - I was in the back room, perfectly euphoric, my eyes filling with tears, in the miraculous presence of Art." [p. 17]