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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays


MizB of Should Be Reading hosts Teaser Tuesdays. Anyone can play along. Just do the following:

*Grab your current read.*Open to a random page.
*Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! You don't want to ruin the book for others.
*Share the title and author too, so other TT participants can add it to their TBR lists if they like your teaser.

Here's mine from Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell (p. 75):

Long ago he had made up his mind that in many respects the Internet was more trouble than it was worth.  Half the country, it seemed, sat in front of screens all day, telling the other half their thoughts, hopes, aspirations, giving advice, requesting help, offering things for sale, inviting fraud by demanding and receiving credit card numbers, misleading the frightened and the lonely, and wasting the time of people like himself who had their jobs to do.

[I couldn't resist posting this on my Internet blog.  Lol.]


2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

THANKS for the teaser.

Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/11/teaser-tuesday-1162012.html

Karen and Gerard said...

Wow, that really makes it sound like using the Internet is a big waste of time.
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