Grab your current read (or a book on your shelf that you've read or been wanting to read). Let the book fall open to a random page. Share two teaser sentences from that page. Don't forget to share the title and author of the book in case someone is teased into reading. Please avoid spoilers!
I've posted my teaser below. Post yours in the comment section if you'd like to share as well!
My teaser is a little different today. It's a whole mini-segment taken from Weird Nature: An Astonishing Exploration of Nature's Stangest Behavior by John Downer. The book is organized into 5 sections: marvelous motion, bizarre breeding, fantastic feeding, devious defenses, puzzling partners and peculiar potions. My teaser is taken from the bizarre breeding section, p. 48-9.
Once spring arrives, the thoughts of the male Antechinus turn to sex and little else. These tree-dwelling sex maniacs indulge in bouts of lovemaking that may last 12 hours at a time. As one passionate session ends, another begins with a different female. The orgy may involve 16 partners, and the male that services all these females has little time left to eat, drink, or sleep. After many nights of wild passion the males begin to look a little worse for the wear--they become thin and haggard, and their hair starts to fall out. To make matters worse, battles with rivals inflict further injuries. Soon the tree-top orgy becomes risky, and many plummet to the ground in a state of exhaustion. Some even expire while in flagrante seducto. In just two weeks all the males are dead, and the females are left behind to bring up the babies.The book was developed from the Discovery series of the same name.
