BookMeme

From Anno, via others, comes this one, fun but simple:

1. Grab your current read.
2. Open to a random page.
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page.
4. No spoilers, por favor.
5. Share title and author, other vital stats as needed.

From Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf (I'm going with actual "sentences" in the translation, not just lines):

Only the roof remained unscathed
by the time the guilt-fouled fiend turned tail
in despair of his life. But death is not easily
escaped from by anyone:
all of us with souls, earth-dwellers
and children of men, must make our way
to a destiny already ordained
where the body, after the banqueting,
sleeps on its deathbed.