Teaser Tuesday - Sep 22

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• 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 and author 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!

To make matters worse, the last youth chosen to play Apollo had died shortly after the ceremony, the one before had left and gone to the shrine at Delos, the birthplace of the god. Only Menoetheus, a man with a face racked in a permanent frown - hard to envisage as a beautiful youth - remained of those who had played Apollo before me.

from Salley Vickers Where three roads meet a re-telling of the Oedipus story to a dying Sigmund Freud. Trivium (for those that know Stravinsky) hovered over the spectral retelling.

Teaser Tuesday - July 30

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• 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 and author 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!

All our rooms are en-suite, Mother. Yours, I think, also has a TV and Wi-Fi. The other Sister, I'm not sure...

Hierarchy within nuns paying a visit! A final teaser from Salley Vickers The Cleaner of Chartres. This was a book which I found difficult at first and became more appealing and the ending kept me enthralled! Maybe a little neat in tying up ends but it certainly came with a punch.

Teaser Tuesday - July 16

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• 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 and author 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!

And until lately God had played fair by not raising any troubling questions about his existence. Then, at 103, the apparently indomitable mother died.

Again from Salley Vickers' The Cleaner of Chartres.

Teaser Tuesday - Jul 9

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• 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 and author 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!

Above her - now as then - Job lay on his comfortless bed of ashes, plagued by a grotesquely grimacing Satan.
Inside the cathedral, the musty air seemed to be perfused with a faint odour of onions.

Salley Vickers' The Cleaner of Chartres - our book group book of the month - I'm just getting into this so a little early for any views. My autocorrect on the phone changed Salley Vickers to Wallet Buckets...more seriously, here's the Guardian review.