this little life of mine

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 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 I read a short story called Mannequin by Susan Helene Gottfried. I just finished This Is Not A Testbefore the bus got to SLO, and really didn't want to start another book on Nicky because I'm picking up a couple novels from the library this afternoon. And, I didn't feel like just sitting there looking out the window watching the world go by, dreading going to work, so I loaded up this short story I've had on my nookshelf for a while, and read the whole thing before getting to the bus stop.

"Let's go see what Ken's up to today," Lynne's dad would say to her, putting his hand on the back of her head. It was supposed to be a gesture of affection, but the real love came from the way Lynne's dad called the mannequin Ken.

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 back in zombie mode with This Is Not A Test by Courntey Summers. I just started it, so I don't have too much of an opinion on it yet, but I am enjoying it so far. Here are my teasers from the middle of a paragraph on page 21:

Even as they were being pulled away from us, they were reaching for their children and Trace and Grace reached back because they didn't want to be left. And then they were gone.

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 reading Albert of Adelaide by Howard L. Anderson. This is an anthropomorphic book along the lines of Watership Down and the Redwall novels which features a duck-billed platypus named Albert as it's hero. I'm not very far into it, but so far I'm really enjoying Albert's story. Here's my teaser from page 22 on Nicky:

"But where is here?" Albert persisted.

"I can't tell you that, Albert, because I don't know myself. I can tell you that where we are is real and it's a place that can get you killed if you're not careful."

Happy 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!

Last week I started reading another MG book, but ended up not really liking it, so I stopped. I felt a little bored with reading and wondered if it might be a good time to take a little break. But then I dug back into Nicky's library and found Godless by Pete Hautman. I downloaded it quite a while ago, and couldn't even remember why, so I decided to give it a shot. It's a very fast read - I've finished it already! - and was really an exciting and fun story. My teaser comes from page 103:

"Grab my ankle, Henry!" Magda shouts, but she can't see how far he's slid. I watch, helpless, as Henry slowly slides over the horizon, his naked belly squeaking on metal. 

After I finished Godless, I thumbed through the library again and found The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. This is another one I downloaded a while ago, and decided it was time to read it. I'm so glad I did because so far it's really quite good! My teaser comes from page 161:

"Fair?" My voice rises. "You have a new family and you're trying to get rid of me by giving me gifts. Is that fair?"

Happy reading, everyone!

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 MG book called Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy. I thought it sounded really cute and I'm interested in reading books about ghosts (especially since I'm currently writing one!). Here are my teasers from page 52 on Nicky the nook:

My eyes went really wide. 

"What?" Alex asked, obviously noticing my sudden change of expression.

"Who is there?" I asked, looking up at the ceiling.

Happy reading! Cheers!

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 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 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 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 Above by Leah Bobet. I wasn't too sure about this book when I first started it, but it's really grown on me now, and I'm really enjoying it. I hate to put it down and can't wait to pick it up again. Here are my teasers from page 74 of my nook:

The Whitecoat house in the park stands silent, window-broke and windblown in the middle of the overgrown field. Empty as  a bricked-off subway tunnel. The shadows flow into it, stripping the sparkel from the bits of broken glass. They puddle darkness on its rooftops like a growing sore: Whitecoat place. Bad place. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.