Teaser Tuesday 1/10/2012

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Why We Broke Up 

Novel by Daniel Handler 

Art by Maira Kalman

"And I told you never to buy me flowers," and I can see it, you rolling your eyes and smiling on the stage.  I smiled back, an Idiot who didn't want flowers, the fucking flower shop where everything collapsed, why the bottom of this box is carpeted with dead rose petals like a shrine on the highway where there's been a wreck.  

Teaser Tuesday 10/18/2011

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

I walk the rest of the distance to the couch and collapse on it.  Scarlett and Silas crowd around.  "Right.  Well, I was...um..." I sigh and look at Scarlett. My head has finally stopped spinning, and I suddenly realize that I'm going to have to explain the dance class.  "I was at this tango lesson," I say quickly, "And there was a Fenris --"

"Wait -- at a what?" Scarlett asks.

Teaser Tuesday 10/11/2011

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Jazza was pacing our room when I returned.  She had her pink piggy mug out, which was the tea mug she reserved for times of extreme stress.

Teaser Tuesday 10/4/2011

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

I didn't remember much about the ride to the hospital, except that Joseph and both of my parents were with me.  And thankfully I didn't remember my mother picking me up off the bathroom floor, or getting me in the car as she must have.  I could barely look at her.  

Teaser Tuesday 9/27/2011

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

In honor of banned books week, today's teaser comes from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.  This book was the third most challenged book in 2009.

I am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books Bill gives me to read.  And just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand.  They are all my favorites.  All of them.

Love Always,

Charlie

Teaser Tuesday 9/20/2011

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

I awoke on the floor with my hands tied to the cooking range.  The girl was pacing nervously and appeared to be having an animated conversation with herself.  I kept my eyes most of the way shut and listened.  

Teaser Tuesday 9/13/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Blood Promise by Richelle Mead

A better choice than Janine Hathaway?  Not likely.  Before Dimitri, my mother had been the gold standard by which I measured all badassedness. 

Teaser Tuesday 9/6/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Dead Rules (ARC) by Randy Russell

"But Look," Jana said.  "I wasn't breaking any rules when I died.  I guess I could have stayed at home and never gone bowling in my entire life."  She laughed.  "I could have lived with that."

Teaser Tuesday 8/30/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

The Scorpio Races (ARC) by Maggie Stiefvater

As we charge across the sand, the magic in her calls to me, insidious.  Precious little of my bare skin touches her - a wrist against her neck, perhaps, though my leg is guarded inside my boots.  But still, her pulse hums through me.  Lulling me to trust.  Compelling me to join her in the sea.

Teaser Tuesday 8/23/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

In honor of her book birthday today's teaser comes from Gretchen McNeil's Possess which hits stores today!  Keep your eyes out for a review and giveaway later this week!

 Don't engage the creepy dolls possessed by Satan who are now all staring at you.  Just pretend they aren't there.  Bridget closed her eyes.  Please don't let a Chucky doll lunge at me with a freaking butcher's knife.  Please, please, please.

What happened next was almost worse.

Teaser Tuesday 6/28/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Sweet Venom (ARC) by Tera Lynn Childs

Now it's time for Gretchen the huntress to go out on patrol.  Just because I didn't scent any beasties from the balcony doesn't mean they're not out there.  Yesterday's missing hybrids are my first priority.  

Teaser Tuesday 6/7/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The direwolf wrenched free and came to him as the wight struggled to rise, dark snakes spilling from the great wound in its belly.  Jon plunged his had into the flames, grabbed a fistful of the burning drapes, and whipped them at the dead man.  Let it burn, he prayed as the cloth smothered the corpse, gods, please, please, let it burn.

Teaser Tuesday 5/24/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris

 Jackson Hereaux was without a doubt a clever business man, but he was proving to be a stupid politician.  Having Connie arrested was dumb.  It drew attention to the Weres, had the potential to expose them.  A people so secretive would not appreciate a leader who couldn't manage a problem with more finesse than that.

Teaser Tuesday 5/17/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

"I realized it was a trap as soon as I stepped inside the lab and saw all those other girls" I say, my fingers automatically curling like claws.  "I Fought.  I scratched, bit, kicked.  It didn't matter.  They herded all of us into a van.  And I don't know how long we were riding.  Hours.  Sometimes we'd stop, the doors would open, and more girls would come in.  It was so awful in there."

Teaser Tuesday 5/10/11

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 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the title & author so others can add the book to their TBR list

Queen of Shadows by Dianne Sylvan

Miranda took delicate hold of that desire with a wisp of her power and tugged at it lightly, saying in a low voice, "It's all right, sir.  You're on break.  You need to go outside and have a cigarette."