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Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesday 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 recommendations if hey like the teaser you’re given!

“Shortly after their marriage, the celebrity couple paid a visit to Princeton, where a university official with unspeakably bad judgment appointed them official chaperones at a weekend house party. Scott traumatized the impressionable undergraduates by introducing Zelda as his ‘mistress’ and ended the sojourn badly hung over and with a black eye.”

--From Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celerity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, by Joshua Zeitz (he’s describing the antics of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald!)

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Claire (The Captive Reader) said…
So much to love with this teaser! The author's turn-of-phrase is very amusing and who can resist hearing about the scandalous Scott and Zelda? Will definitely look out for this title (or at least your review).
May 11, 2010 at 6:25 PM
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