Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Teaser Tuesday: 10.20.09

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  1. Grab your current read
  2. Open to a random page
  3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  4. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
  5. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
I've been slacking on these lately, but I actually have time today. Gasp! Shock! And other exclamations of surprise!

Anyway, here's my teaser for this week from Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters:

"I am persuaded that Mrs. Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, and on that account is eager to get him away. Or, alternatively, he has in his quest for treasure disturbed the burial site of a pirate captain, and incurred the wrath of the pirate captain's ghost, who has thusly cursed him to wander the seven seas until fate should claim him. It's one of those two."

4 comments:

Cecelia said...

HA! That is an absolutely FANTABULOUS teaser!!! "It's one of those two," indeed! Really, honestly, thank you for that. Brought an instant smile to my face.

You can check out my teaser here.

Kate said...

Wicked teaser! You included pirates... now that's tempting!

Ellz said...

treasure, pirates, ghosts? sounds good

Jenny N. said...

Nice teaser, I remember watching the trailer for this book.