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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

#23 Teaser Tuesdays~ The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

 "Mr. Jalal stared at the words. The brown print stood like dried blood against the yellow of the paper. He ran his fingers across the letters, half expecting the clotted ink to come off against his fingertips, red and rejuvenated."


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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page


BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title & author, too, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists!

Do check out Lucky Library Picks on this blog.

5 comments:

  1. Yuck, words written in blood!

    Here's ours: http://www.ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/12/tuesday-teasers-four-this-week.html

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  2. What a bloody teaser indeed! :) Very interesting. I haven't heard of this book yet.

    Here's our TT over at GatheringBooks:
    http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/teaser-tuesday-adventures-and-japan-lit/

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  3. Great choice!

    Here's my TT:
    http://ttoria.blogspot.com

    TToria
    xo

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  4. Great visuals in this teaser--brown ink, yellowed paper. Good choice for a teaser.
    Mine is posted here: http://iousex.blogspot.com/2011/12/teaser-tuesday-dec-20_19.html

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  5. Wonderful teaser - so descriptive.

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