Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Teaser Tuesday (December 14): On Boarding School

Teaser Tuesday buttonShould Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly bookish meme.

My modified rules are as follows:

Grab your current read. Pick two or three (or four or five!) “teaser” sentences more or less at random from the book, anywhere on the page. 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! (Please avoid spoilers!) (Read the official Teaser Tuesday rules.)

It’s been an age since I’ve posted a TT post, and this one is actually my sister Brogan’s teaser:

“In the evenings the other girls would lie around the dormitory in their underwear, in groups like bored, basking seals. They would paint their toenails from small vials of blood-red lacquer. They would conduct inexpert conversations that tended inevitably towards cruelty. A subject would enter their midst, like a forest creature stepping into a clearing, and they would surround it, at first playful, then taunting, until with increasing savagery they would bring it down among them. I wanted to go home.” (p. 70)

This is from The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk.

9 comments:

  1. I'd want to go home too. Sounds a bit savage. Nice tease. Here's my teaser.

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  2. The cruelty of dorms and cliques.... Tell Brogan that she chose a good book and teaser to boot. Must run in the family... genius genes :)

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  3. Exactly why I never lived in a dorm! Haven't heard of this one before, but I love the teaser.

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  4. Excellent teaser! I hadn't heard of this book before.

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  5. Yikes! Not sure if I would like this book but that passage sounds so true to life!

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  6. Sounds like a bunch of catty girls there!! I'm scared!

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  7. OMG, that sounds like the book I was reading in my dream last night! No joke!

    Ok, so I'm guessing you found my blog via LT and the 75 Book group? In any case, I'm loving this meme and will join in as of today! And just so I know how to find you there, what is your username on LT?

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  8. Oooh, that's a good teaser - definitely makes me wonder what's going on in that dorm.

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  9. Good teaser, I think I'll have to add this to my list.

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