13 July 2010

It’s Tuesday, Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesdays

It’s Tuesday, Where Are You?

I’m in England during the lead-up to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.

Waverley by Sir Walter Scott.

Teaser Tuesdays TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from - that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Here Mr Pembroke, with some difficulty, stopped a torrent of interrogations, eked out with signs, nods, and winks; and, having at length convinced the bookseller that he did him too much honour in supposing him an emissary of exiled royalty, he explained his actual business.

The man of books, with a much more composed air, proceeded to examine the manuscripts.

From Waverley by Sir Walter Scott, p. 69.

2 comments:

  1. An excellent teaser! I should read more Sir Walter Scott.

    My teaser is here, if you want to take a look: http://abookblogofonesown.blogspot.com/2010/07/teaser-tuesday-1272010-blonde-roots.html

    Greetings,
    Tiina

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  2. I do have a soft spot for reading about the Jacobite Revolution.

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