this little life of mine

Teaser Tuesday: The Only Ones by Aaron Starmer

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 The Only Ones by Aaron Starmer. It's a charming little book about a town filled with forgotten children and a boy who builds a machine he hopes will reunite them with their missing loved ones. I'm not even halfway through the book, but I'm really loving it!  Here's my teaser from page 39 on my nook:

"Okay," Martin said. "But I don't know if I have much of a story."

"Just tell us about your life before the Day," Darla said. "And tell us how you got here."

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: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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 the second book in The Lunar Chronicles, Scarlet by Marissa Meyer. I loved the first book, but find I'm having a little trouble getting into this one. I think it's because there's a whole new set of characters and a new story, so rather than just jump back into the story started in Cinder, I have to figure out who these new people are and what they have to do with anything. The previous characters are in here, too, and somehow the two stories will meet - at least I'm guessing that's the plan, but so far I can't see it. It's still quite an adventure, though, and here are my teasers from page 38 on my nook:

Frustrated tears were beginning to sting her eyes and Scarlet tilted her head back, gulping down patient breaths. Her worst fears, those sneaking, horrible suspicsions were true.

Her grandmother had been kidnapped.

Teaser Tuesday: What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

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've started another MG book, this one called What Came from the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt. I'm certain I'm going to like this book, but I'm having a hard time getting into it so soon after finishing Summer and Bird. You know how you sometimes get really sucked into a book and care so deeply for its characters, and when it's over you can't quite let it or them go? Yeah. That's where I am right now.

Anyway, here are my teasers from page 78 on my nook:

But the other two set upon Young Waeglim with mightly blows, and Young Waeglim was sorely weakened. The trunco flashed down upon him with cold clanging, and his arms and shoulders were bloodied, and he was drvien back upon the shattered glite, and fell.

Teaser Tuesday: Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull

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 Summer and Bird by Katherine Catmull, a magical, fairy-tale-type story about two sisters in search of their parents. I'm not too far into it, but so far I'm enjoying it.  

Here are my teasers from page 47 on my nook:

"Ah well," said Ben. "Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it."

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 Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech

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 and happy Tuesday! This week I've started reading The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech. It's a very charming little MG book, that I'm enjoying quite a bit more than I did my previous read. (Not that it was bad, I just had a hard time getting into it.) Anyway, here are my teasers from page 15 on my nook:

Lizzie ignored me. "Finn boy, are you entirely sure you are not bleeding from your internal organs? Because if you are, you should not move, and we should send Naomi for help. But if you are not bleeding from your internal organs, then perhaps we should escort you home, if you would be so kind as to tell us where that might be, Finn boy."

Teaser Tuesday: Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr

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 Melissa Marr's Carnival of Souls. I really enjoyed her Wicked Lovely series as well as Graveminder, so I'm hopeful that this book will be just as good as the others! My teaser comes from page 11 on my nook:

"You need to get over it, Mals." Adam didn't scowl at her, but the censure was there all the same. "The revolver only has six rounds. Sometimes six won't be enough."

Teaser Tuesday: Helen and Anna: Two Ghost Stories

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!

 

Last week I started and finished Wait Till Helen Comes a ghost story by Mary Downing Hahn. This popped up on my Amazon suggestion list and the cover looked great, so I bought it. The story is perfectly creepy, and suspenceful, and really well written. It is, however, very similar to the novel I've been working on for the past couple of years, which freaked me out a bit, but considering this book was written in 1986, and mine is being written now (although technically it's set in the mid-70s), I think I'll be able to tweak mine enough to make it unique. Anyway, here's my teasers from page  60  on my nook:

 Too frightened to breathe, I saw the glimmer of blue light shape itself into the figure of a girl no bigger than Heather. She wore a white dress, and her hair, as dark as Heather's, tumbled in waves down ther back. Her features were indistinct, her eyes in shadow, but I knew who she was.

 

And, this week I started reading Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake. Actually I keep forgetting the name of the book. I just call it The Second Anna Book because it's the sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood.  So far it's really good - just like the first book - and wonderfully creepy! Here's my teasers from page 125 on my nook:

Anna blinks. When she looks at me again, her eyes are red with blood. A ripple of pain passes through her jaw as phantom cuts open and close across her chest, grotesque flowers of red blooming and disappearing down her arms. 

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.