Teaser Tuesday (Jan. 31)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

“Maybe abortion seemed different when it was just an interesting topic to write a paper about or debate over drinks, when you never imagined it might affect you.”

– pg 149 “The Mothers” by Brit Bennett

“By senior year, she thought of Oceanside as a tiny beach setting trapped inside a snow globe; occasionally, she might take it down from her bookshelf and gaze at it, but she could never fit inside.”

– pg 148 “The Mothers” by Brit Bennett

Those are my teasers for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading. There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?

Teaser Tuesday (Jan. 24)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by Ambrosia at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

“When you spring an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.  Consider them all, boy.”

– pg 113 “Assassin’s Apprentice” by Robin Hobb

That is my teaser for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading.  There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?

Teaser Tuesday (Jan. 3)

Teasr Tuesday is now being hosted by Ambrosia at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

“Standing happy and slightly drunk in my kitchen, I’m unaware that tonight is the end of all this.  The end of everything I know, everything I love.

No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away.  There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice.  And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic.  Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting it.  No time to flinch or brace.”

– pg 1  “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

“One of the things I love most about Daniela is her honesty.  She has a direct link hardwired from her heart to her mouth.  No filter, no self revision.  She says what she feels, without a shred of guile or cunning.  She works no angles.”

– pg 93  “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

Those are my teasers for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading.  There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?

Teaser Tuesday (Sept. 27)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

“His deep brown eyes lingered on her liver-spotted brown hands.  Rough, tanned hands that had known seasons in a garden.  No rings on her fingers, or sign there had ever been.  He always felt a pang when looking at the hands of the newly dead, imagining all the objects and people those hands had held.”

-pg 34 “Still Life” by Louise Penny

“In all the years Jean Guy Beauvoir had worked with Gamache, through all the murders and mayham, it never ceased to thrill him, hearing that simple sentence.  ‘Tell me what you know.’  It signaled the beginning of the hunt.  He was the alpha dog.  And Chief Inspector Gamache was Master of the Hunt.”

-pg 35 “Still Life” by Louise Penny

Those are my teasers for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading.  There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?  Happy Tuesday!  Happy Reading!

Teaser Tuesday (Sept. 20)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

“My eyes went to the lyric I had written on the desk Friday.  That’s when I saw a line beneath mine written in blocky handwriting.

For the night will soon bring back it’s shadows.

It was the next line of the song.  What? I was confused.  Someone else that went to this school had actually heard one of my favorite songs?  Apparently I wasn’t the only one bored in this class.”

-pg. 30 “P.S. I Like You” by Kasie West

“The thought made me laugh. Out loud.  My eyes shot to the front of the room, but my teacher was in the middle of a sentence so thankfully he didn’t seem to notice my outburst.

Lauren, sitting next to me, had, as evidenced by the look on her face.  I knew that look.  It was basically the silent version of why are you so weird?”

-pg. 31 “P.S. I Like You” by Kasie West

So far, I’m enjoying P.S. I Like You by Kasie West.  It’s my first time reading anything by her and it’s just what I was in the mood to read.  It’s a super cute, quick and very fun little book.  Although it’s been awhile since I was in high school, I can relate a lot to the main character Lily and her feelings towards socializing.  West’s writing, although light and fun is still engaging and I’m enjoying her writing style.

Happy Tuesday!  Happy Reading!

Teaser Tuesday (Sept. 6)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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!

Goodreads

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

I’m currently participating in a readalong on Goodreads of this book that is hosted by Katie from Life Between Words.  It runs through the month of September in case you would like to join us.

Here’s my Tuesday Teasers:

“The bride had divided the unconsumed food amongst the waiters.  There was half of a cold broiled lobster, five stone-cold fried oysters, an inch jar of caviar and a wedge of Roquefort cheese.  The children didn’t like the lobster and the cold oysters had no taste and the caviar seemed too salty.  But they were so hungry that they ate everything on the table and digested it too, during the night.  They could have digested nails had they been able to chew them.”

-pg. 52 “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“The Nolans just couldn’t get enough of life.  They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn’t enough.  They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.”

-pg. 52 “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

An interesting piece to this story is that the Nolans are monetarily very poor, but their lives are extremely full no matter what hardships come their way.  I’m only on page 107, but so far that’s how it’s been for the Nolan family.

Happy Tuesday and Happy Reading!  🙂

My kids went back to school today.  My daughter had some big changes since she started middle school today.  I’m hoping she is having a great day and enjoys all of her new teachers.  If you have kids that started school today or recently, I hope they have a great school year!

Teaser Tuesday (August 30)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• 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 my book last night and I haven’t picked up a new book yet.  So, I will use quotes from the book I just finished reading.  A review will be coming soon!  🙂

Goodreads

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

“Are you talking about killing or murdering?”

“Is there a difference?”

Mr. Iverson looked out the window as he pondered the question, not so much looking for the answer as contemplating whether to tell it to me.  I watched the tiny muscles in his jaw tighten a couple times before he answered, “Yes,” he said.  “There is a difference.  I’ve done both.  I’ve killed…and I’ve murdered.”

-pg 44 “The Life We Bury” by Allen Eskens

Sounds like a spoiler, but it’s not.  🙂

“You know nothing about me,” I said “you don’t know where I’ve been, or what I have to deal with.  You don’t know the shit I’ve had to wade through to get here.  Whether or not you tell me your story is up to you.  That’s your perogative.  But don’t presume to judge me.” I fought against the urge to stand up and walk out, holding on to the arm of the chair to keep me in my seat.

Iverson glanced down at my white knuckled grip, then at my eyes.  A hint of a smile, more subtle then a single flake of snow, crossed his face, and his eyes nodded in approval.  “That’s good,” he said.

“What’s good?”

“That you understand how wrong it is to judge someone before you know their whole story.”

-pg 44-45 “The Life We Bury” by Allen Eskens

That’s my teasers for this Tuesday.  Happy Tuesday!  Happy Reading!