Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
- PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
- Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.
Here is my teaser for the week:
I accompanied him on his visits to the house in Grosvenor Square and met a number of his political friends. I went with him to the picture gallery in Pall Mall and the the Royal Academy, to Covent Garden and Drury Lane where I was able to see works by Shakespeare, Sheridan and many another, even a play call Remorse - not a very good play, I thought - by my Mr Sam.This teaser came from page 189 of the NOOK edition of Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken. This book is a sequel of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen that centers around the daughter of Colonel Brandon's ward and Willoughby's victim, Eliza. I find myself in the unusual position of liking the protagonist but being infuriated by Aiken's depiction of Edward and Elinor. She has turned Edward into a tyrannical, insufferable toolbox! I wonder if she means to turn him around or if he will continue to be so. In any case, I am having mixed feelings about the book.
That's the danger when you mess with classics - you might turn someone's cherished ideas about characters on their heads! I hope you get an ending you enjoy.
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Hmmmm... Sounds like an interesting book.
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