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Teaser Tuesday: The Oak Apple


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

Comments

Alyce said…
That is definitely a teaser that draws you in!
Anonymous said…
This lady does not live in this building, but in the one next door.

In a tiny place with walls full of meters, manometers, and pipes of every calibre, adjacent to the room where the boiler itself is installed, a workman squats, poring over a plan on tracing paper placed on the bare concrete floor.

Life; A User's Manuel by Georges Perec

Or else, as happens so often in life, you have no such reasons and find yourself facing a phenomenon about which you can't quite tell whether it is a law or pure chance; that's where things acquire a human interest.

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

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