Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Teaser Tuesday - Painting Mona Lisa by Jeanne Kalogridis


Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:



  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



One of my favourite books that I read preblogging days was Jeanne Kalogridis' excellent The Borgia Bride. Over the last few months I have been eagerly anticipating reading her latest book, The Devil's Queen until I realised that some how I had never actually read her last book, which is published here under the title Painting Mona Lisa. I think it was called I, Mona Lisa in some other parts of the world.

My teaser comes from page 347:

My father sat, one shoulder pressed hard against the inner wall, his body slumped diagonally; he gingerly held one hand out to his side. The skin over his cheekbone was tight, violet, so puffed up that I could not see his eye. And his hand...

13 comments:

  1. I hope you're loving Painting Mona Lisa! I did when I read it. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

    Lezlie

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  2. Wow. That's a heck of a teaser. Very interested now.

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  3. Marg, great teaser! I've added the title to my check out list. :)

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  4. Great teaser! I've been thinking of reading this book. Also, the cover is very beautiful, isn't it?

    Greetings,
    Tiina

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  5. Nice teaser. I've heard of this book before and been interested. Hope you like it.
    Alayne
    http://thecrowdedleaf.wordpress.com/

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  6. Oh this sounds neat and I adore the cover. I love historical fiction like this.

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  7. sounds good, and I love the cover art. If you want to wander down my road I’m home.

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  8. It is a nice over isn't it Kaye and Tiina!

    Ladytink and Leya, I highly recommend reading The Borgia Bride from this author as well.

    Alayne and Lezlie, so far so good!

    Kiirsten, I nearly put in the section about the hand, and then I read back a bit and realised that this was a more natural teaser!

    Thanks for stopping by everyone.

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  9. the cover looks fabulous...sounds like a great read

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  10. Did someone's dad get in a fight? That's what it sounds like, though now I'm curious as to who/what/WHY. Great teaser!

    If you'd like, you can check out mine here.

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  11. I have The Borgia Bride on my TBR pile - earmarked for a History challenge next year :)

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  12. Sally, I loved The Borgia Bride. I hope you like it too.

    Celi.a, kind of, maybe!

    s, thanks for stopping by.

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