Teaser Tuesdays: The Bronte Sisters Go to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
Another Teaser Tuesday entry! I’m posting this on Wednesday but I’m shameless enough to change the timestamp so it looks like it was done on Tuesday. But at least I’m honest enough to admit it here for posterity.
A refresh of the Teaser Tuesday guidelines:
* Grab your current read.
* Let the book fall open to a random page.
* Share with us two (or more) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on the page.
* 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!
And my quote:
“I stood in front of a photograph of Toddington leaving the Old Bailey, and said, ‘Oh, Toddy, we’re in such a mess!’ and then I cried, and then, in the odious way that these things intrude themselves, I began to dramatise the situation and to plan a story about it for The Rattler, and I wrote out the plot, crying all the time, and got into bed at three, and had no sleep till five o’clock.”
Frankly, I can’t believe I’ve lived my whole life without reading this book. It’s so whimsical and funny and creative and oddball that I know I would have gone all “kindred spirit” on it when I was younger. I feel like it’s the kind of novel that probably will change the way I write from now on, even if I don’t consciously think about it while writing. It’s deliciously clever. I’m about halfway through and basically I never want it to end.
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