Teaser Tuesday

Shiver for Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by the amazing MizB at Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along-just grab your current read, turn to a random page and find two good “teaser”
sentences to share.

My teasers are from Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, which has been on my stack for far too long!

I know many have already read this but I’m only a few chapters into it and I love it.

The brilliant colors of the brittle leaves all around the shed mocked me then, evidence that a year had lived and died without my being aware of it. I knew with sudden, chilling certainty that this was my last year. (82)

The book fell open to this part-amazing-now I’ve got to keep reading!

What random words are teasing your today??

The Girl Who Could Fly/Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading!

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!

Here are my teasers:

She was not more than a heartbeat away from eating dirt when the miraculous happened. Like a plane in an air show, Piper grazed the ground in a death-defying loop that changed her course by a hundred and eighty degrees and turned her face from the ground to the sky. She sailed upward with the unexpected thrust and precision of an F-22 Rapton. (17) The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

What’s your teaser today?

Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew-Teaser Tuesday

What a lovely holiday it has been. Something very special about having an extra day off. Tomorrow is Tuesday and back to school.Ugh! Graduation project must be done-check. Inventory and state reports need to be done. No more classes to brighten my day. Reports cards need to be done. Lots of quiet time with paper work will fill my day!

Without further ado Teaser Tuesday is waiting…Should be Reading has all the rules posted so you too can play along.

Cherry sat with them by the fire till it died away to nothing. She longed to go, to get home among the living, but the old man talked on of his family and their little one-room cottage with a ladder to the bedroom, where they all huddled together for warmth, of his friends that used to meet in the Tinners’ Arms every evening. There were tales of wrecking and smuggling, and all the while the young man sat silent until there was a lull in the story. “Father,” he said. “I think our little friend would like to go home now. Shall I take her up as I usually do?” (44)

Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew; Stories and Essays from a Writing Life by Michael Morpurgo

Why is it I can never just pick two sentences.. the whole quote works so well for me.

Enjoy!

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden and The Year the Swallows Came Eary by K. Fitzmaurice

I’ve not read one book yet for the 451 Challenge I signed up for, which is such a shame because it’s an interesting challenge and I only have 6 to read. I’m finishing up the very wonderful elementary chapter book, The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice but am also a few pages into The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. I’m going to share a few lines from both today for my teaser selection.

The bells on the glass door to the Swallow chimed as I pushed it open. Inside the smell of flour tortillas and cinnamon greeted me. Add to that all the onions, peppers, and chilies heating up on the stove, and you could tell it was th ekind of place people liked coming to. p. 31 The Year the Swallows Came Early (2009)

and

The garden was light, but it was a young light without sun, clear and stained green by the shrubs and trees. The peace I had felt at the gates of Les Oillets filled me again and I could have whistled like the birds for well-being and joy. Then, as I stood there in my pajamas looking down, a man came down the iron steps. p. 32 The Greengage Summer (1958)

Two very different books but similar feelings evoked from both random chosen passages…I didn’t notice the similarities until I typed out the second one. And I love that she’s wearing her pajamas!

To check out the 451 Challenge-click here.

To check out Should be reading’s Teaser Tuesday-click here.

Click for Kathryn Fitzmaurice’s site.

Teaser Tuesday-Three Wishes

This is a book I’ve wanted to read for a few weeks. My friend, Tina found it at the library and is letting me read it first!! Don’t you just love a good book-loving friend! I finished The Book Thief this afternoon at peaceful girl’s gymnastic lesson so I am anxious to get into this book tonight.

Here’s my teaser:

“You have everything you need to calm yourself, even when the world around you is nuts,” I told a class in Newark.
“Yeah, right,” a tenth grader scoffed at me. “I just breathe, and that makes everything better. You the one who’s nuts.” ~p. 29 Three Wishes; A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood by Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, and Pamela Ferdinand

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at 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. You don’t want to give away too much information.
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

The Book Thief-Teaser Tuesday

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

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 participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here’s my teasers:
Remarkable book. Off to read…

When a woman with an iron fist tells you to get out there and clean spit off the door, you do it. Especially when the iron’s hot. p. 44 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Look Again-Teaser Tuesday

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! (don’t give too much away- don’t 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!

Here’s my teasers:

“El, here are my famous last words. You’re single, he’s single, and life is short. I say, go for it.” p 19

Look Again( 2009) by Lisa Scottoline

***This is supposed to be my” fluff” book after the very gritty Little Bee by Chris Cleave, which I loved but needed something a llittle easier. I’m totally enthralled by this tale of a mother who discovers reasons to question her adoption of her three-year-old son, Will.

Little Bee-Teaser Tuesday

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! ( You don’t want to 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!

Here is my teaser for today:

From Little Bee by Chrise Cleave

I will tell you what happened when the taxi driver came. The four of us girls, we were waiting outside the Immigration Detention Centre. We were keeping our backs to it, because that is what you do to a big gray monster who has kept you in his belly for two years, when he suddenly spits you out. You keep your back to him and you talk in whispers, in case he remembers you and the clever idea comes into his mind to swallow you all up again. p. 50

There are beautifully poignant sentences on each page of this book so it was tough to choose.

Happy Reading~

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!

Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

4. Do not include any spoilers-don’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!

5. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here’s mine:

As soon as I got close to Alvin’s field, I strained my ears for Mystery Boy’s violin. All I heard was a distant lawn mower. Even so, I could feel my spirits lifting. p. 71 The Homeschool Liberation League by Lucy Frank.

I’m about half way through this book and am hoping Katya calms down a little. I’m anxious to see the relationship between Milo (Mystery Boy) and Katya.

What words are teasing you this week?

Teaser Tuesday

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! (don’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!

Here is my teasers:

A set of shrubs had been planted under the library window. Someone else’s bike tossed on the grass. New planters in front of the door with happy little marigolds dancing in the breeze. Not my house anymore. Not my home. p. 9

from She’s So Dead to Us by Kieren Scott

what’s your tease today?