Teaser Tuesday - Donut Days

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!

"Emma!" my dad said, ever the preacher with his resonant voice. "What in the world is going on here?"
p. 175
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Teaser Tuesday - Give up the Ghost

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!

This week's teaser is from Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe.

We stared at each other, and my stomach turned over. He looked different, vaguely, like he'd wilted around the edges.
- p. 157
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Teaser Tuesday - The Other Side

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!

This week's teaser is from a nonfiction book about ghosthunting called The Other Side: A Teen's Guide to Ghost Hunting and the Paranormal by Marley Gibson, Patrick Burns, and Dave Schrader.

Trance mediums are not very common, as many psychics are a bit skeeved out by the idea of allowing their body to be controlled by outside forces. And seriously... can you blame them?
-p. 51
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Teaser Tuesday - Prophecy of the Sisters

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!

Today's teaser is from Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink. I'm going to see her Thursday AND Saturday, so I need to finish her book!

She hesitates, shifting nervously on her feet before answering. "Well, everyon has dreams, Lia. . . ."
-p. 111
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Teaser Tuesday - Willow

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!

In honor of Julia Hoban and her AWESOME book Willow (which I'm reading), I chose to tease you with the following passage:

Maybe her face isn't any different, but the look in her eyes is. She reaches out a hand to cover them in the mirror. She remembers the reflection that used to stare back at her. Those eyes weren't dead.
-p. 25
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Teaser Tuesday - Anastasia's Secret

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!

This week's teaser is from Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap.

All the sorry hopelessness of my situation - our situation - burst over me in a wave. All through my illness, through our dear friends being arrested and our own captivity I had been in too much of a daze to think about what it really meant.

-p. 187
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Teaser Tuesday - Rampant

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!

This week's teaser is from Rampant by Diane Peterfreund.

And then I saw it. In her hand, Dorcas clutched a pitiful little pocketknife, barely two inches long.
- p. 238

Are you teased? :-D
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Teaser Tuesday - Shiver

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!

This week, my teaser is from Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater:

Hope hurt more than the cold. Maybe it wasn't Jack I should've been looking for.
p.181

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Teaser Tuesday - Violet Wings

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 this week is from Violet Wings by Victoria Hanley:

I put all my strength into my answer, but it was no use- my voice was too weak to be heard by anyone but Lily. "Tell me why a gnome who battered a good genie stands by you with an iron club."
-p.295

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Teaser Tuesday - Hush, Hush

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 today is from Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick



I was huddled in the bottom of the phone booth, counting silently to one hundred, trying to remain calm, when a black Jeep Commander glided to the curb. Patch slid the door to the phone booth open and crouched in the entrance.

-p. 275-276

I'm absolutely loving this book. :-D
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Teaser Tuesdays - August 4th

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!

Here is my teaser:

"'I was under the impression, apart from small border skirmishes, the war was over," Winter replied. "Hardly," Balor retorted, his voice like grinding stones."

-p. 335 The Kindling of Greenfyr by Mark Freeman
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Teaser Tuesdays - July 21st

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!

Here are my teasers:

"we were the only ones one the block, but pounding music and smoky plumes of pine incense trialed out of a high window. a beautiful man was standing in a doorway with a beautiful woman, whispering things to her that made her giggle. we both stood there with longing, watching them --"
p. 139 Gothic Lolita by Dakota Lane


"It was dark inside the flat because the curtains across the glass balcony doors had been closed. (By Grandad? By the police?) We didn't open them."

p. 193 Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet
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Teaser Tuesday

Hello all!

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays, hosted by MizB at 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!

Here are mine:

"'You have hands that heal," she told me. She set the spoon back in my hand. "How good that you are using them!'"
-p. 180 What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau

"'You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the slightest grief which I might have felt in beheading you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.'"
-p. 153 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
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Teaser Tuesdays and a special surprise

Hello all!

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays, host by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Here is my Teaser today:

Theo wanted to shout at Dr. Saint, tell him this was just another one of his lies. But something held him back - a horrible suspicion that this was the truth, or at least a fragment of the truth.
-p. 257, Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance by Glenn Dakin

And here's a treat for you guys. A video that I did for the 20 Things in 20 days Scavenger Hunt. Learn more about the mystery woman! Well... not much, but yeah.. check it out!


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Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play! 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!

Here are mine:

I felt happy, imagining James and Mitch having fun together, but when he looked back into my eyes, the light still flicked over his features like the twin sides in a stereoscopic picture, one image slightly different from the other. My James and the James who came before, both hiding behind Billy's eyes.
-p. 201 A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

We are alone in a house that could have existed before the Return and could exist after. It exists in a time that is normal and not burdened by death and survival and fear.
-p. 197 The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan


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Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading. This is my first one! Yay! I'm reading three books right now, so here it goes:


"'Oh, Mattie, dear, be mine until Niagara Falls!" Jim cooed. "I will, Royal, darling, until the kitchen sinks!" Will gushed."
- A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly (p. 223)


"The Goon sighed and stared at Fifi's firelit face. "Going to get worse," he confided to Howard."
-Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones (p. 139)


"I climbed through the windshield of the truck, found the diseased man, and jumped out the back. His soul was skinny."
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (p. 389)
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