cocktail hour

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! (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 Teaser Tuesdays  participants can add the book to their To Read Lists if they like your teasers!

Our Mum–or Nicola Fuller of Central Africa, as she has on occasion preferred to introduce herself–has wanted a writer in the family as long as either of us can remember, not only because she loves books and has therefore always wanted to appear in them (the way she likes large, expensive hats, and likes to appear in them) but also because she has always to live a fabulously romantic life for which she needed a reasonably pliable witness as scribe.

“At least she didn’t read you Shakespeare in the womb,” my sister says.  “I think that’s what gave me brain damage.”

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Tags: Alexandra Fuller, books, Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness, Memoir, reading, Teaser Tuesday

• September 12, 2011
• Books, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Reading and Writing, Teaser Tuesday
• 5 comments