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!
“Of earth, we see all.
Below, the many spines of Mesopotamia: her plates long buckled into mountain ridges, hoary and high; rivers and streams, silken kraits that line the land in silver and blue; the undulations of skulls buried beneath the desert floor, one after one after one, like the nodes in history’s back: benighted, elapsed, in dissolve.”
From The Age of Orphans, by Laleh Khadivi
Wow, that is one hec of a teaser. Very descriptive…thanks for sharing it.
That’s a super teaser! Lovely.
Whoa! That is some teaser.
That writing is very poetic. Does the story flow well or do the descriptions bog it down, I wonder?
Descriptive teaser!
This is what I’m reading now – or more appropriately *trying* to read now. It’s probably my lack of attention lately, but I’m having a hard time with this book. Hope your enjoying it with more success than me
I was wondering the same thing as Alyce. It’s quite descriptive–almost like reading a poem.
Alyce, Joanne and Literary Feline – I actually haven’t started it yet. I just carry it back and forth from work.