Teaser Tuesday – 03/01/12

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read and open to a random page:

* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

I am reading THE VOLUPTUOUS DELIGHTS OF PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM by Lauren Liebenberg.  Set in the African country of what use to be known as Rhodesia in the 1970s – the story is told by 8-year-old Nyree.  The book was short listed for Orange Prize for New writers and I am reading it as part of my Orange January/July challenge

Here are my teasers:

“…Mozzies descend on us in the summer evenings, plunge their syringe-like proboscises into our flesh and drink like vampires, regardless of our blood’s quinine concentration…” – pg 51

“…The rainy season has begun and the nights, swollen and sullen, are lanced by dark, spiny curtains of rain…” – pg 65

 

 

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