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Teaser Tuesday: Light by Michael Grant

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 just finished the final book in the Gone series by Michael Grant, Light. It was frightening, gross, heartbreakingly sad, and totally fantastic! This whole series has been a great ride and I'm going to really miss it. Here's my teaser from page 212:

Killing everyone in the FAYZ was proving more difficult than she'd expected.

Staying alive was proving more difficult.

Why did everything have to be difficult? It was unfair.

Teaser Tuesday: Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

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 I'm reading another charming little MG book called Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz. It's a wonderful gothic Victorian story with mystery, magic and some great characters. I'm really enjoying it! Here are my teasers from page 44 on my nook:

Exhausted by her tantrum, Cassandra fell asleep and did not awaken until after dark. The pain in her hand was sharper. It throbbed like a drumbeat, making her head reel. She felt like a wolf with its paw in a trap. She wished she had a wolf's courage and could bite off her hadn at the wrist, separating herself from the pain.

Cheers!

Teaser Tuesday: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

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!

Good morning! This week I'm heading back into the Nevernever with a  new Julie Kagawa novel The Lost Prince.  I have really enjoyed The Iron Fey series, and I'm thrilled to be heading back into that fabulous and exciting world with this new installment! Here are my teasers from page 46 on my nook:

"I need to talk to you," he whispered, glancing back over his shoulder. "It's important, and you're the only one who might be able to help. Please, you gotta let me in."

So, what are you reading this week? 

Teaser Tuesday: Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizBof 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 I'm enjoying a fabulous autobiography called Nerd Do Wellby Simon Pegg, one of my favourite actors. His film Shaun of the Dead is one of my all-time favourites followed closely by Hot Fuzz. If you haven't seen those films, you're missing out. Seriously, you should go rent/download them right now (I believe they're both rated "R", if that makes any difference to you). It's okay. I'll wait.

In the meantime, here's my teasers from page 21 on my nook (please be forewarned there's a naughty word and some crude humour in the following paragraph, so you might want to move along if such things offend you.):

Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching these ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutter to yourself, 'What a prick.' Nowadays, an eyebrow hardly flutters when we see a ten-year-old child happily texting away. You probably wouldn't notice anyway; you'd be too busy downloading an app that could definitively pinpoint who it was that had just farted in your Tube carriage.

Teaser Tuesday: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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 I'm reading Gone Girlby Gillian Flynn. It was on my TBR list for a while, but I decided not to go for it because I had so many other books to read, but then it ended up on my Book Club, and I thought, what the heck, I'll read it!  It's pretty good so far (I'm only on page 42). Very well written, engaging, interesting story and character I think I might want to know a little more about. It's not as good as Shine Shine Shine, but then I'm still a little enamoured by that novel, so pretty much anything is going to pale in comparison. Anyway. Here's my teaser from Gone Girl page 16. One line only this time; yeah, it's that good a line:

There's something disturbing about recalling a  warm memory and feeling utterly cold.  

Teaser Tuesday: The Kill Order by James Dashner

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 I started reading The Kill Order by James Dashner. This is the prequel to The Maze Runner trilogy, which I really enjoyed, and I've been SO looking forward to reading this book!  My teaser comes from page 122:

"Stop it!" Mark yelled. "Stop it!"

He jerked on his own rope and started to get up, but the boot came back, slamming him into the dirt once again.

Teaser Tuesday: Bigger Than a Breadbox by Laurel Snyder

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!

Happy Tuesday! This week (after I FINALLY finished Out of Oz - a really good, but really LONG book!) I'm reading Bigger Than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder. This is a middle grade selection about a little girl who has a bread box that grants her wishes. Sounds like a nice, light, sweet read! My teaser is from page 66 on Nicky the Nook:

So I turned on the TV in my room, patted the bread box gently, and made a wish. I'd gotten in the habit of patting the box each time I made a wish. It felt like a way of saying please, and maybe also thank you.

Happy reading! Cheers!

Teaser Tuesday: Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire #teasertuesday

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!

Happy Tuesday! This week I'm reading Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire. This is the final book in the Wicked series and I'm both excited and sad about that. I'm excited to read another Wicked book, but I'm sad it'll be the last one. I've enjoyed this alternate version of the Oz books, originally written by L. Frank Baum, a great deal.  Here are my teasers from page 25 on my nook:

She began her descent. She passed the eight floor and the seventh. About a quarter past five on the morning of April 18, 1906, the buildings of San Francisco started to shake.  

 

Teaser Tuesday: Storybound by Marissa Burt #teasertuesday #books #reading

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 I needed a break from the dark, depressing, and somewhat gory books I've read lately and chose what I hope will be a delightful, lighthearted MG faery tale book called Storybound by Marissa Burt. So far it is indeed delightful and fun, and I'm really enjoying it! Here's my teaser from page 16 on Nick the Nook:

Suddenly, the dragon spun around more quickly than seemed possible for such a large beast. The girl froze, Peter's sword now hanging loosely by her side. The dragon darted forward, spurting alternate blasts of hot flame and green slime as it moved. It was nearly upon her. Why isn't she moving?

Teaser Tuesday: Fear by Michael Grant #teasertuesday

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 I'm so excited to be reading Michael Grant's latest Gone novel, Fear!! I really enjoy this series even though it's dark, depressing, and sometimes pretty gross. I'm emotionally invested in these kids, and while I certainly don't want it to end, I'm curious as to how Michael Grant is going to resolve the whole thing. Anyway, here are my teasers from page 60:

The facility had been set up before the coming of the FAYZ. The government had known of, or at least suspected, the very odd things beginning to occur in the months before the barrier.