Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Teaser Tuesdays: The Distant Hours

This week my teaser lines come from Kate Morton's latest novel, The Distant Hours. I've been reading the book for a couple of weeks now, and loving it. This excerpt (a bit more than two lines, as usual - sorry) comes from page 55 of the ARC (page 42 of the published edition), and has our protagonist, Edie Burchill, thinking about her first visit to the mysterious Milderhurst Castle:
...although I'd stumbled upon the village of Milderhurst by accident, there was a rightness to my being there. I'd experienced the same sensation when I first read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and Bleak House. As if the story were one I'd already known, that it confirmed something I'd always suspected about the world: that it had sat in my future all along, waiting for me to find it.
I guess you can tell that Edie is a rather bookish type. In fact, at one point she says that she'd like to conduct relationships only on paper. Well, I don't think I'm quite that far gone, but I can definitely understand the impulse.


Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by mizB at Should Be Reading. If you'd like to read more teasers, or take part yourself, just head on over to her blog.

And please feel free to leave me a link to your Teaser Tuesday post in a comment here.

20 comments:

  1. Wondering..find what? Good teaser!!
    Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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  2. Interesting! I love a bookish book.

    I haven't been by in a while (apologies). I love the new look! Especially the bookmark header picture. Cool!

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  3. What a beautiful passage. Sounds like a book I might like! My teaser: Slaughterhouse Five

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  4. Great teaser, I enjoyed this book. Thanks for visiting mine at The Crowded Leaf.

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  5. Very good teaser. Sounds like a good book.

    My teaser: The Lacuna

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  6. That is a great teaser. I love her referneces to the classics being a part of her. She seems like a character I would love to get to know. Thanks for sharing.

    Jessica @ Laugh Love Write

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  7. Oh, this is a book I've had on my list...sounds good!

    Thanks for visiting my blog.

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  8. Sounds well written.

    http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-time_22.html

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  9. This sounds like an interesting book, something I would enjoy reading. May have to see if our library has it.

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  10. Great tease. I am looking forward to this one.

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  11. Great teaser! I'm always looking for new authors to add to my list of future reads.

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  12. confirms it even more now. Can't wait to start reading this book this week!
    Yeah!

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  13. Coming home to a place you've never been before, great teaser. Thanks for stopping by Calico Contemplations.

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  14. Gotta love a book with a bookish type in it! Great teaser!

    Here's mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2010/11/teaser-tuesdays_23.html

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  15. I have this sitting on my shelf. I can't wait to get to it.

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