Teaser Tuesdays asks you to:
--Grab your current read
--Let the book 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 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!
“The trouble that had been brewing in the south had not been felt at all in the north. There life went on peacefully as it had for the last fifty years or more, and it was all the more shocking therefore when the trouble finally erupted.”
--From The Oak Apple, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
--Grab your current read
--Let the book 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 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!
“The trouble that had been brewing in the south had not been felt at all in the north. There life went on peacefully as it had for the last fifty years or more, and it was all the more shocking therefore when the trouble finally erupted.”
--From The Oak Apple, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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