Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays: The Children's Book

This week, my teaser lines come from The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt. I've had this one for quite a while now and finally decided to jump in. It's a chunkster (nearly 700 pages), so I'm sure I'll be reading it for a long, loooong time. And since I've just now opened the book for the first time, I really don't know anything about this snippet, except that it appears on page 89:
Tom looked into his book. The story had advanced a page or two. A group of seekers were descending a dark tunnel -- they were the shadowless hero, a gold lizard the size of a terrier with garnet eyes, and a transparent, jellylike formless being who poured along the ground and constantly changed shape.



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 your comment here.

7 comments:

Tribute Books Mama said...

An interesting teaser.

http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesday_22.html

carolsnotebook said...

Interesting snippet to just happen across. I assume the actual story is about Tom, not the seekers.

Heather said...

Sounds like an interesting read. Good luck getting through it! My teaser: One For the Money

Harvee said...

What fun to open a book and have magical things happen. Sounds like a good book for adults and children.

smellincoffee said...

Sounds exciting!

Nise' said...

I started this one and got distracted. Need to get back to it too.

Bev Hankins said...

That's quite a group of adventurers!

I'm catching up from being away. Here's my TT: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesdays_23.html