Teaser Tuesday (99)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. I'm finding it hard to believe I've done this thing almost 100 times, though of course some established bloggers have been doing it for far longer than that.

Rules:

• 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 TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week, my teaser is from The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz. I was ecstatic when I found out Arthur Conan Doyle's estate had allowed a Sherlock Holmes novel by someone other than Doyle to be written, because I'm a big fan of the original stories. I'm 70 pages in right now and Horowitz seems to be living up to Doyle's style, and the voice of John H. Watson, very well.

(I would call this a bland cover, but since Sherlock Holmes is such a famous character, I like the simplicity of just the title and fabric background. You certainly wouldn't want something distracting.)

Holmes slept in late the next morning and I was sitting on my own, reading The Martyrdom of Man, by Winwood Reade, a book that he had recommended to me on more than one occasion but which, I confess, I had found heavy going. I could see, however, why the author had appealed to my friend with his hatred of 'idleness and stupidity', his reverence for 'the divine intellect', his suggestion that 'It is the nature of man to reason from himself outwards.'

-p. 51

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Are there any other Sherlock Holmes fans out there? 

What are you reading now? Have you got a teaser from it?


-----The Golden Eagle