Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser for today:
" I shall be afraid of her. - She must have too masculine and bold a temper. - To be so bent on marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. - I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like."
from The Watsons by Jane Austen (in the book Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon, page 110).
Oh my gosh, I actually have this book (or what she finished of it on my Kindle) and I absolutly loved it but have never known anyone else who has read it! Great teaser.
ReplyDeleteWow, Morgan! I am not acquainted with anyone who has read The Watsons either - does that make us hardcore Janeites now :-)
ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying it and I wish she had finished it!
That is a very powerful teaser! Nice!
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I love The Watsons! Is she talking about her sister Margaret in that speech?
ReplyDeleteMissy, I agree it is powerful. On re-reading it now, I feel as if Jane is speaking from her heart. She did reject a suitor after being engaged to him for a very short time (a day I think).
ReplyDeleteMeredith - I love The Watsons too, Emma is such a great character. I really wish it were complete! I think she is talking about Penelope in that speech.