Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Teaser Tuesday


Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Should be Reading:

  • 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!
  • Please avoid spoilers!


I am not quite sure how this has happened but I seem to be reading two short story collections at the same time. Luckily, they have very different tones - one is paranormal/romance and the other is more literary! This week's teaser comes from page 135 of The Boat by Nam Le. The lines comes from a short story called Halflead Bay:

The sea was like this. You could wait all day and then, just when you were leaving, it might offer something up - the rubbery back of a whale, the glass-sharp glint of jumping mackerel - something.

8 comments:

  1. I like short story collections. Your teaser is great!

    teased

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  2. A whale or a mackerel - very different! I'd prefer the mackerel.

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  3. What beautiful writing...great teaser!

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  4. Your teaser matches your header photo :)

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  5. What a great teaser! The sea can change so quickly, and has so many surprising animals in it!

    Here's my Teaser! ~ Wendi

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  6. I love the prose, the sea is so mysterious. read my teaser here

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  7. Haven't heard of this one but your teaser is interesting!

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