Teaser Tuesdays September 10, 2013

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading.  Everyone is invited to 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!
• Share the title and author as well so that others can add the book to their To Be Read list!

September 10, 2013

My Teasers:

During last week’s WWW I said that I was going to read The Hours, however after Cleo at Cleopatra Loves Books noticed Atonement by Ian McEwan on my Friday Finds post and told me how much she like it, that is my choice for this week.  Here is my teaser:

“In Leon’s life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed.  Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all.” pg. 101

From the Publisher:  On a summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment’s flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant.  But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos, and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.