This week my teaser lines come from a book I haven't actually started reading yet (it was just delivered to my door yesterday). The book is The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley's second Flavia de Luce novel. Flavia, an eleven-year-old amateur sleuth in early 1950s England, made her debut in The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, published in 2008. I read that one last year and really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd take a look at the second novel in the series in preparation for the third installment which is due out later this year. This bit comes from pp. 30-31 of the paperback edition, and is being related by Flavia herself:It was after all Cynthia, with her rodent features, who had once caught me teetering tiptoe on the altar of St. Tancred's, using one of Father's straight razors to scrape a sample of blue zafre from a medieval stained-glass window....Cynthia had seized me, upended me, and spanked me on the spot, making what I thought to be unfair use of a nearby copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern (Standard Edition).I'm not exactly sure who Cynthia is or what she has to do with the story, but I do know that if she tried that spanking routine today, she'd probably find herself being put away for a long, long time.
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17 comments:
"Unfair use", heh. On the bright side, thick books are hard to yield forcefully!
I do like this teaser and want to know more about the book. My TT: http://www.rundpinne.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesday-indefensible.html
Funny! Here is my teaser from the ARC, Heart of Lies by Jill Marie Landis.
This series is on my list of books to read.
Here is my teaser for this week.
I loved the first book in this series -- I must get to this one.
Here's my teaser
Great choice this week LOL. You can find my teaser at The Bookish Snob
Great teaser! I gotta check it out!
Here is my Teaser Tuesday: The Elephant Tree by RD Ronald
Great teaser! Very funny.
Here's mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesdays_08.html
Ah, I have seen this title around, but hadn't realized it was a sequel to The Sweetness...et. al.
I have been wanting to read that book, so another one is on the list as well. I agree with you about the spanking...
Here's my TEASER TUESDAYS
Unfair use...LOL--love it! Great teaser, Joy!
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I liked the second book even more than the first! Happyn reading.Here's mine:
Little Princes
here's mine http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesday.html
Cynthia sounds horrible.
http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/02/teaser-tuesday_08.html
I love your teaser. Love love love it! And I think I may simply have to run out and find those books now. Great choice!
Mine is a tad more subdued. (And a reappearance after I haven't been able to do this for a while.) And I promise that the book isn't all about body parts. It's at Bookishgal. :-)
Cool teaser, Fun cover. I hope you are enjoying your book. Here is my Teaser for Tuesday.
My book friend Bina raves about this series. I loved the first one and have to read the second one soon.
Hope you enjoy Flavia like I did.
Such an interesting teaser! I hope there was at least a good reason she was taking that sample.
You can find my TT here: http://ksbooks.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/teaser-tuesday-30/
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