Teaser Tuesday: May 31, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."

We're Millenium Lint now," Simon protested.

My teaser of the week comes from page 35 of Cassandra Clare's City of Fallen Angels. It illustrates just how much these books make me laugh with their ready supply of quips. I don't know what I'm going to do until December, since this is the last published work by Cassandra Clare that I will have to read.

Teaser Tuesday: May 24, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

Stepping carefully around tree limbs and loose rocks, I made my way down. As I descended lower and the underside of the bridge became more visible, I spotted someone sitting on the ground reading a book.

That little tidbit comes from pages 97-98 of The Hollow by Jessica Verday. I'm still not sure where this book is going, exactly. At the time I am writing this I just completed the sixth chapter and, so far, all I know is that the protagonist's best friend is missing and believed to be dead and that the protagonist makes perfume. I guess we'll see what we see, as I'll be starting the seventh chapter soon.

Teaser Tuesday: May 17, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

Just as I left my safe little nook against the wall and stepped around my table, a huge crash came from behind me, and I was knocked flat to the ground. I could feel my knee stinging and lifted my head to see blood on the ground beneath my face.

Now, doesn't that just pique your curiosity? Want to know what's going on? Well, my friends, you're just going to have to read it to find out. ;) You can find that passage on page 28 of Amy Plum's Die for Me. I will say that I am enjoying it very much, so far. I am also very glad that I am back in French classes, or else I would be breaking out the French to English dictionary quite often.

Teaser Tuesday: May 10, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?" One of the cameras follows as I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. "Fire is catching!"

This week's teaser comes from pages 99 through 100 of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. I couldn't resist using more than two sentences this week. I just finished the chapter the above quote came from and it is certainly a rousing speech! If what I've read so far is any indication, I'm going to love this book just as much as the other two.

Teaser Tuesday: April 26, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

I felt a rush of relief as I read it, for she was alive! But it was mingled with anger at her seducer -- for I could no longer doubt what had happened -- and sorrow that she had been used so ill, and compassion for her distress.

This week's teaser can be found on page 96 of the NOOK edition of Colonel Brandon's Diary by Amanda Grange. I am pretty happy with this book so far. It is turning out so much better than Eliza's Daughter as a Sense and Sensibility variation/sequel.

Teaser Tuesday: April 19, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

Today is going to have to be a post-and-run day for now. I have an American literature class, a meeting my friend and her acquaintance who needs help with her NOOK, a play date for my daughter, and a birthday dinner to make for my husband (happy birthday, sweetie!). Hopefully I can visit some blogs later this evening.

Here is my teaser for the week:

I accompanied him on his visits to the house in Grosvenor Square and met a number of his political friends. I went with him to the picture gallery in Pall Mall and the the Royal Academy, to Covent Garden and Drury Lane where I was able to see works by Shakespeare, Sheridan and many another, even a play call Remorse - not a very good play, I thought - by my Mr Sam.

This teaser came from page 189 of the NOOK edition of Eliza's Daughter by Joan Aiken. This book is a sequel of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen that centers around the daughter of Colonel Brandon's ward and Willoughby's victim, Eliza. I find myself in the unusual position of liking the protagonist but being infuriated by Aiken's depiction of Edward and Elinor. She has turned Edward into a tyrannical, insufferable toolbox! I wonder if she means to turn him around or if he will continue to be so. In any case, I am having mixed feelings about the book.

Teaser Tuesday: April 12, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"'When he decided you might really be seeing ghosts, I should have said, Sure, bro, let me talk to her. I'd have handled it... well, different.'"

This week's teaser is from page 163 of The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong. I'm really liking this book, so far. It's been quite a while since I read a book centered around ghosts. Hopefully I won't have any problems getting the second book in the series from the library.

Teaser Tuesday: April 5, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"The five acres tucked behind the old brick library building were half library grounds, half city park. Houses had grown up against three sides of the wrought-iron fence, hiding the park from the street."

This teaser comes from page 60 of Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton. Things have just begun to happen and I'm excited to see what happens next!

Teaser Tuesday: March 29, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"Aislinn stayed silent until it was time to go to afternoon classes, her fingernails digging small half circles --like slivers of the sun-- into her palms. She concentrated on the pain of those suns, only partially visible in her skin, and wondered if she had any chance at all of escaping from Keenan's attention."

This selection comes from page 87 of the Nook edition of Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr. So far, I'm still having trouble deciding about this book. I will say that I was absolutely thrilled to see Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" referenced. It's one of my favorite poems.

Teaser Tuesday: March 22, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"'You are mistaken, Elinor,' said she warmly, 'in supposing I know very little of Willoughby. I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him, than I am with any other creature in the world, except yourself and mama.'"

This selection is from page 60 of the Girlebooks ebook edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

After my experience with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, I am very relieved to be reading this! The last thing I want is to be trying to remember the course of the plot and have sea monsters pop into my head! This is only my fourth time reading S&S (I've read Pride and Prejudice more often), so I think it was pretty important to re-read this now.

Teaser Tuesday: March 15, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser for the week:

"'Have you any recognition of the hand that penned these words, Countess?' He took from his waistcoat the bloody slip of paper I had retrieved from Marguerite's bodice."

This selection comes from page 131 of Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron.

I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed this series the first time I read it. Barron does an excellent job of injecting Jane Austen's "voice" into the story. It is also a lot of fun to think of Jane Austen as a detective. I'm so glad that I've managed to collect the first 6 books, because I have the feeling I'm not going to be able to put this series down. I'd better find the last 5 before I get finished with the first 6!

Teaser Tuesday: March 8, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. It is a meme that lets you see what your fellow bloggers are reading and gives you a glimpse at books you may want to read. Anyone can participate so long as they follow the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
4. PLEASE DON'T SHARE SPOILERS! Try not to give away too much with your selection.
5. Share the title, author, and page numbers so that others can add it to their to-be-read list if they want.

My teaser of the week:

"I met Mrs. Jennings in Bond Causeway," said he, after the first salutation, "and she encouraged me to come on; and I thought it probable that I might find you alone. My object--my wish--glurb--hurble--is to be a means of giving comfort and gurble--"

This selection comes from page 188 of the NOOK edition of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters.

I had read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies first and was fairly amused by it, but this book is just not shaping up the same way. I'm actually really disappointed in it, but am still going to finish it. This is just one of those books that is going to get mixed reviews no matter what. Unfortunately, I'm not one of its fans. Hopefully I'll finish it soon and then can write a full review.