Archive for the ‘Teaser Tuesday’ Category
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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!
“The Dead of Summer” by Camilla Way is an oldie (published 2007) but definitely a goodie!
I’d see a random person on the street; just a random person – an old man, a kid, anyone – and I’d stare and stare at them, driving myself mad with thinking about them because the more I wondered about them, the less real I became, thee less I could see myself, feel myself, and then the terror would start. Suddenly I seemed to be always outside myself, could only see Anita from the outside, as if I was another person watching myself, wondering who I was.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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!
“As Husbands Go” by Susan Isaacs was released on July 6. Review coming Friday!
Whatever “a state of suspended animation” actually meant, I was suddenly in it – a cone of silence that wouldn’t lift until she spoke. Would I hear “He had no secret life?”
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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!
“The Lovers” by Vendela Vida was released on June 22. Review coming soon!
“Lovely,” she said, examining the shiniest one. “Nice to see you” she added, unable to contain herself. She was so happy to be with him.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
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!
“The Scent of Rain and Lightening” was released on May 4 and so far my only regret is that I didn’t start it sooner.
“Listen to me Jody. One thing you have to believe right now is that you’ve got to get out of here.”
“Why? What’s he going to do to me if he shows up and I’m here?”
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
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!
“32 Candles” was released on June 22. I picked it up this weekend. Review will be up Friday.
He didn’t recognize me. Probably because I was dressed in a large bunny suit, I realized, a little late in the game.
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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’m about halfway done with “A Fierce Radiance” by Lauren Belfer. It was released on the 15th of this month.
Claire saw her cover story for the magazine taking shape. This was what she was truly here for: not fumbling espionage, but the gift she had for creating evocative images.
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
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 actually just finished this book late last night but absolutely loved it. “The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers“ is billed as an “unconventional memoir”.
Each pass across the plot drew new bruises on both shins as rocks, chunks of old fence-posts, and random rusty machine parts shot up out of the earth, as if it kept its own artillery down below. Strangely the most common pieces of detritus were bones.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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’m back this week with a from the Nebula Award winner “The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi. I haven’t actually started this one yet but I’m pretty sure everyone has read my CURRENT read…except me (Gaiman’s “American Gods”).
He ties the man quickly, blindfolds and gags him. A cheshire drifts close, watching, a molting of calico and shadow and stone.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
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!
My teaser is from “The Lonely Polygamist” by Brady Udall. I’m not very far in but this has been nothing like I expected so far.
Golden eased himself delicately out of the pickup and took a shovel out of its bed. Right away he ran into trouble.
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
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!
My teaser is from “The Wives of Henry Oades” by Johanna Moran. I haven’t actually started reading this one so it’s a teaser for me too!
The monster spun around without releasing Josephine. He caught Mim beneath the chin with the butt of his rifle
