Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Purple Booker. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of The Purple Booker.
This week my teaser comes from How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran. I read this a few weeks ago but have been writing up my review over the last couple of days (should be up this afternoon) so I had it handy. It’s one of those books where I’ve been highlighting lots of passages so it’s also really easy to find a couple of sentences to share.
My Teaser
I am sure there are secret messages in all books, if you look hard enough. Generations of girls trying to tell other girls secrets, without getting found out.
36% How to Be Famous by Caitlin Moran
Blurb
I’m Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I’m wise enough to know that everyone around me is handling fame very, very badly.
My unrequited love, John Kite, has scored an unexpected Number One album, then exploded into a Booze And Drugs HellTM – as rockstars do. And my new best friend – the maverick feminist Suzanne Banks, of The Branks – has amazing hair, but writer’s block and a rampant pill problem. So I’ve decided I should become a Fame Doctor. I’m going to use my new monthly column for The Face to write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name.
But when my two-night-stand with edgy comedian Jerry Sharp goes wrong, people start to know my name for all the wrong reasons. ‘He’s a vampire. He destroys bright young girls. Also, he’s a total dick’ Suzanne warned me. But by that point, I’d already had sex with him. Bad sex.
Now I’m one of the girls he’s trying to destroy.
He needs to be stopped.
But how can one woman stop a bad, famous, powerful man?
I love that this takes place in the 90’s. I almost picked it up to read the other day.. i may have to now. Thank you for sharing. My teaser is from: Catching a Witch by Heidi Eljarbo
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I’ve kind of worked out that the MC and I are roughly the same age so it was a blast from the past for me, although can honestly say our lives and experiences were very different.
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