Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
- Be careful not to include spoilers
I'm reading A Mercy by Toni Morrison. This beautifully written novel with multiple voices is set in the 1680s America. My teaser is from p. 46. Lina, a Native American servant in an Anglo-Dutch household, is puzzled when a blacksmith, a free man of African descent, arrives to the farm and looks her mistress straight in the eyes.
"An unfanthomable puzzle. Europes could calmly cut mothers down, blast old men in the face with muskets louder than moose calls, but were enraged if a not-Europe looked Europe in the eye. On the one hand they would torch your homes; on the other they would feed, nurse and bless you."
Today is Finland's Indenpendence Day. It's 94 years since Finland's Declaration of Independence. Happy birthday to my lovely country! :)
7 comments:
Unique teaser!
Check out my teaser!
http://somelikeitparanormall.blogspot.com/2011/12/tt-1.html
Excellent teaser!
Here’s my Teaser Tuesday post. :)
One of these days I will try another Toni Morrison novel. I didn't like the first one I tried!
Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog.
I find historical fiction interesting too. Good teaser!
Here's ours: http://ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-teasers-3-this-week-2-non.html
Fantastic teaser!
Thanks for sharing.
Here's mine:
http://ttoria.blogspot.com
TToria
xo
First, happy Independence Day! We celebrate ours in July. I visited Scandinavia this past summer, but did not get to Finland, which I really wanted to do. Perhaps next year. . .Love Scandinavian crime fiction.
I haven't read Toni Morrison but did just recently finish "The Traitor's Wife which was set in the same harsh times in the U.S. Thanks for checking out my TT post for "The Scottish Prisoner" earlier today at Summit Musings
Thanks everyone. Now I'll go and take a look at those teasers I've not visited yet.
Greetings,
Tiina
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