TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
This weeks teasers is from If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. (again, a
- Grab your current read.
- Let the book fall open to a random page.
- Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
Please avoid spoilers!
- You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
"I know I can't help you very much right now-Gold knows what I wouldn't give if I could. But I know about suffering; if it helps. I know that is ends. I aint't going to tell you no lies, like it always ends for the better. Sometimes it ends for the worse. You can suffer so bad that you can be driven to a place where you can't even suffer gain: and that's the worse."
-page 112 (paperback)
Don't forget to post a link to your teaser!
I want to read it.
James Baldwin is a wonderful writer. In the long ago I read most of his novels and hope to start on his short stories soon.
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