Teaser Tuesday (July 31)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

Please, God, take care of my sister. Bring her back home.

p. 141, In Leah's Wake by Terri Giuliano Long 

Teaser Tuesday (July 24)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"She has no choice. She made a commitment."

p. 1 In Leah's Wake by Terri Giuliano Long 

Teaser Tuesday (July 17)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"It is a game that Ysabeau and I play. When one of us is away, we leave messages hidden in the pages of books. So much happens in a day, it is impossible to remember everything when we see each other again. This way we can come upon little memories like this one when we least expect it, and share them."

p. 201, Shadow of Night, by Deborah Harkness 

Teaser Tuesday (July 10)

I am really late in posting this, but here it is! 






Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"I don't know where to begin," he said shakily. (Matthew Clairmont)
"At the end, of course. Why did you pick up the phone and call me?" (Hamish Osborne)
"I needed to get away from a witch." (Matthew)

p. 104, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness



Teaser Tuesday (July 3)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works...

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"He gazes at me. He's amused, his eyes dancing with mirth."

p. 127 (nook edition), Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James



Teaser Tuesday Skip Day

I just realized it is Tuesday. Being in Hawaii (my favorite place in the world) has me at a complete loss of day and time. Since I arrived here and finished my last book, Easy by Tammara Webber, I have not started another book. I keep telling myself I need to start reading, but I have been taking my time to fully enjoy the island any moment I get. For this reason, I am going to skip my usual Teaser Tuesday post. I'll pick back up next week. Instead I will share a little picture teaser of the beautiful Big Island of Hawaii. 

This is where I have been enjoying my evenings
with a few cold Kona Brew beers.

Teaser Tuesday (June 12)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 Here are my teasers...

A shiver passed across my back as Balik and I walked - close together, side by side - beneath the green canopy and entered the park. I had a sense of the place being wild and natural in a way that I had not really felt at the other recreation places before.

p. 184, Hope's Daughter by Melanie Cusick-Jones

Teaser Tuesday (June 5)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

The one day I awoke and he was gone. I felt his departure as surely as if I had seen his spirit rise.

p. 173, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman 

Teaser Tuesday (May 29)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

My girlhood disappeared in the desert. The person I'd once been vanished as I wrapped myself in white when the dust rose into clouds.

p. 3 The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman 

Teaser Tuesday (May 22)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"Why are you doing this?" Jake bellowed, as he padded across the floor wearing nothing but his bedroom slippers. "If you ask me, darling, it's an exercise in absolute futility and gratuitous decency that will be totally lost on your sister and that pompous, pharisaical lout to whom she happens to be married."

p. 111, Cheat and Charmer by Elizabeth Frank (this is the 3rd and hopefully last teaser from this book. I'd like to finish in the next week) 

Teaser Tuesday (May 15)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

She turns aside, so that the kiss lands on her jawline, and looks unsmilingly into his anxious face. "Don't go in there, Artie. Just turn around and get in the elevator and go home. Right now."

p. 57, Cheat and Charmer by Elizabeth Frank 

Teaser Tuesday (May 8)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"Privately, she thought, We were Communists, for Christ's sake, and here we are running this Negro woman ragged going upstairs and downstairs bringing us breakfast in bed."

p. 244, Cheat and Charmer by Elizabeth Frank

Teaser Tuesday (May 1)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"The air churns darkly as if stirred by unseen fan blades. He thinks of fan blades-- shiny and quick in his mind. How did he get here?"

p. 97 Pure by Julianna Baggott 

Teaser Tuesday (April 24)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"I am not talking fate or destiny. I am talking survival. You cannot let the queen see you."

p. 128, Cinder by Marissa Meyer (e-book edition)

Teaser Tuesday (April 17)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"I walked down two flights of stairs and pushed open the door to the servants' quarters. The moment I got there, the other servants screamed - they yelled - they howled with laughter."

p. 83, The White Tiger  by Aravind Adiga (NookBook edition)

Teaser Tuesdays (April 10)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

The late afternoon sun cast a molten light on the street, lacquered the sidewalk, the doors, tables and chairs of restaurants, the rickety stands of cigarettes, film and books, all in a golden patina, even giving the rusted, motionless cyclos and the gaunt faces of the sleeping drivers the bucolic quality found in antique photos.

 p. 69, The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

Teaser Tuesdays (April 3)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

"Don't you think it's a calling to live in danger just to capture the face of those who are suffering? To show their invisible lives to the world?"

 p. 89, The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli

Teaser Tuesdays (March 27)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers...

At first we were being serious; then we started wildly guessing crazy dragon scenarios such as, "What if he is toothless? What if he is the size of a house cat? What if he is a scaredy dragon who tells jokes like the Eddie Murphy dragon in Mulan?"

 Tiger's Voyage (The Tiger Saga #3) by Colleen Houck p. 269 (nook edition)

Teaser Tuesdays (March 20)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers (from the same book yet again)...

"I am hearing something. Then I feel something as the earth begins to move beneath me."

 p. 450, Beach Music by Pat Conroy (nook edition)

Teaser Tuesdays (March 13)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Here's how it works..

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share does not give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author too so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here are my teasers (from the same book again)...

"The company of intelligent women was a forgotten pleasure to him, and that first year it made him critical toward Lucy, whose commonness was highlighted by her vivacity and freshness. An early bitterness set in as Johnson Hagood regretted his impulsive marriage and recognized how little an asset Lucy was going to be."

p. 235, Beach Music by Pat Conroy (nookbook edition)