Teaser Tuesday- April 26, 2011

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.


Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

" 'Look at it from my position,' he says.  'You're asking me to do something I am really terrified of doing, and you haven't even given me a good reason.' "
~pf 206, The Kitchen Daughter by Jael McHenry

Teaser Tuesday- March 29, 2011

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

" 'There's not much room for fun here,' I say.  'There must be something.' "
~pg 69, Drought by Pam Bachorz (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- February 22, 2011

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"But seriously, who wakes up at seven o'clock in the morning to cry?

As soon as I sat down, Jillian, my other, more gossip-appreciating best friend, passed me a neatly folded note (she'd been the first one in fourth grade to be able to make origami and paper footballs)."
~pg 28, Here Lies Bridget by Paige Harbison (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- February 1, 2011

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"I press my lips together to stop any more words coming out , and turn my head toward the window.  There's no point talking to her, no point at all."
~pg 40, The Chaos by Rachel Ward (Numbers #2) (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- January 25, 2011

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"In my haste to open the coffee shop door, I nearly crashed into the back of a man who walked in just before me.  As I started to apologize, he turned to face me."
~pg 115, Fallen Angel by Heather Terrell (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- December 7, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"(Pull my wimple! PULL MY WIMPLE!)"
~pg 31, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- November 30, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"I sat frozen in my bed.  What the hell had just happened?"
~pg 159, The Frenzy by Francesca Lia Block (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- November 16, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"We were totally isolated---no hikers or campers were anywhere in sight.  The fire pit and a few flashlights were our only sources of light in the dark night."~pg 1, Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- November 9, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

" 'Leaving someone in his condition alone for any amount of time is never a good idea, and given his background, leaving him with a child--why, I might go so far as to call it gross negligence.'  Mom shakes her head rapidly."
~pg 17, Slayed by Amanda Marrone (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- November 2, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"She saw Rathina first--lying on her face at the very rim of the crater.  Dropping to her sister's side, she turned her onto her back."~pg 274, The Enchanted Quest (The Faerie Path #5) by Frewin Jones

Teaser Tuesday- October 26, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"Violet knew it was a lie, even if only one of omission.  To her parents, however, a lie was a lie; the distinction wouldn't matter."
~pg 42, Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- October 19, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

" 'NO,' I tell St. Clair, who opens his mouth to say something else.  He shuts it, surprised."
~pg 299, Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- October 12, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:
 

"I obediently take a step forward and wince as I become aware of the pain behind my right knee.  The adrenaline rush that overrode the sensation has passed and my body parts join in a chorus of complaints."~pg 101, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Teaser Tuesday- October 5, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"The world has transformed to flame and smoke.  Burning branches crack from trees and fall in showers of parks at my feet."~pg 172, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Teaser Tuesday- September 28, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"Both of my mother's parents had died during my early years: my grandfather to a disease when I was an infant, my grandmother to a different disease when I was just three.  I had no memory of the former, rendering him no more to me than a stern face in a portrait, but I had a few memories of the latter: long afternoons when Mother had me accompany her as she visited her own mother in her illness; my grandmother, even though sentenced to her bed, finding entertainments or trinkets with which to occupy me while she and mother chatted away."
~pg 8, The Twin's Daughter by Lauren Baratz-Logsted (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- September 21, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"He was wearing flannel pajama bottoms and a white T-shirt.  Chloe nearly purred at him even though it was a lost cause."
~pg 11, Out For Blood by Alyxandra Harvey (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- September 14, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:
 

" 'Maybe you should go home and get some rest,' Damen said gently, sensing she was on her last nerve.  'I'll stay with her.' "
~pg 77, Ghostgirl Homecoming by Tonya Hurley (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- September 7, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"She was tied to the saddle, but could have snapped those bonds if she had thought to do so.  She had become monstrously strong since her death three days before, and the intervention by her daughter that had returned her to a semblence of life."
~pg 3, Zombies Vs. Unicorns edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black (ARC)

Teaser Tuesday- August 31, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"My eyes felt like they'd pop out of my face.  'What did you say?' I almost shouted."
~pg 99, The Mystery of the Third Lucretia by Susan Runholt

Teaser Tuesday- August 24, 2010

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers!

My two teasers:

"It was better than being alone and worrying.  And in a strange way, it could be comforting to sit by her mother's bed and hold her hand and speak to her the way she'd been told she out to, conversationally, talking about her day, pretending everything was more or less okay and that they were just waiting confidently for Catherine to wake up and rejoin them."
~pg 237, Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin (ARC)