Teaser Tuesday

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

I've been wanting to start participating in this meme for months now, and I'm finally going to get around to it. I realize it is Monday night, but if I wait until tomorrow to do it, I won't get it done.

This week I'm reading "The Junior Officer's Reading Club" by Patrick Hennessey. Stay tuned for a review sometime next week (I hope - this week is extremely busy).

I know I"m supposed to open to a random page, but I don't like the idea of opening to a page past the point I've reached in the book, so I'll open it to the page I'm on. Here, the author is describing events of a 4 day field training exercise during the British Army Officer's basic training camp:

"Friendships were forged like lightning in that adversity.... My basher-buddy Bowmont and I had been engaged in a miserable discussion which had moved depressingly from what we were doing one month before (he - beach in Brazil, I - lounging in Paris) to what would induce us to come out from under our poncho (apparently not even Elle Macpherson offering a blozzer 20 metres away), but now, cracked by the fatigue and the absurdity of it all, we just broke down in hysterics..."

I'm such a nerd that I had to look up the word blozzer. Also, he spelled meters wrong. :)