Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Teaser Tuesdays!


Welcome to another edition of Teaser Tuesdays! You know how this works: grab your current book and share with us 2 teaser sentences. (No spoilers please.)

This week, I just finished up Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman. This is a great bit of historical fiction about the Scottsboro Boys (if you don't know about this case, you really should). This passage, a quote from one of the boys, Andy Wright, 19 years after he was falsely accused of rape, shows a whole lot more forgiveness than I think I would muster in his place. It's a very good book and you'll see the review here later this week.

"I'm not mad because the girl lied about me. If she's still living, I feel sorry for her because I don't guess she sleeps much at night."


What's teasing you this week?

12 comments:

gautami tripathy said...

This book is on my wish list!

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Jo-Jo said...

Love that teaser! Thanks for stopping by my blog.

Kerri said...

Sounds like a good read. I'll watch for your review.

Brooke from The Bluestocking Guide said...

Hmmm. He's very forgiving. Here is mine

Susan said...

Looks good - I need to check this one out! I've got a couple of good teasers this week. Here's a link.

Cecelia said...

Ooh...nice! Guilt does tend to keep you up at night, doesn't it? Great teaser!

Check out mine here.

Melissa O. said...

Great teaser!

Here's my teaser today!

Nicole said...

Wow, that's a pretty powerful quote. Here's mine.

Teddyree said...

Great teaser and I don't know about the Scottsboro boys so I should rectify that! Thanks for sharing.

Phyl said...

Great teaser today. I really think I should check out that book. I can't wait to read your review.

Marg said...

Amazing that someone could be that forgiving. Sounds like an interesting read.

Anonymous said...

Interesting teaser. I've never hear of the case, but you definitely have me interested.