Teaser Tuesdays {The Last Dragonslayer}

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!


My Teasers:

"He'd have eaten the leg in under a second if I'd allowed him, but Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador."

~ page 94, The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde


Happy Tuesday all! It seems I'm on a fantasy kick these days, having read The Host, now this one, and next (hopefully) Seraphina. What can I say, everybody had returned fantasy stories to the library the day I visited. :) Mr. Fforde is a quirky writer! It took me a few pages to get used to his writing, but I am definitely enjoying the story now. Dragons are quite fascinating! What are you reading this week?

Toodle-loo kangaroos!

Teaser Tuesdays {Cinder}

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!


My teasers:

"Iko rolled to her side, clasping her metal grippers over her chest. "Prince Kai. Check my fan, I think I'm overheating!"

chapter one, audiobook version of Cinder by Marissa Meyer


So I totally broke one of my reading rules with this book. Usually I don't like to start a book when I know it's the first in a series. I like to wait until at least a couple books are out. But I saw this audiobook at the library over the weekend and thought, "Why not?". (And luckily the sequel will be out in less than a month so yay for that! ;) I popped in the first CD on my way home and as soon as I heard the above lines, I knew I was hooked. I love Iko! I wish she were featured more. But I am really enjoying this story and can finally understand all the rave reviews I've read about it! Ms. Meyer is an excellent writer. Plus Rebecca Soler is doing a fabulous job with all the voices and characters. I think she's half the reason I'm having so much fun! :D Have you read it? What did you think?

Toodle-loo kangaroos!

Teaser Tuesdays {Jayber Crow}

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

My Teasers:

"Athey was a storyteller too, as it took me some while to find out, for he never told all of any story at the same time. He told them in odd little bits and pieces, usually in unacknowledged reference to a larger story that he did not tell because (apparently) he assumed you already knew it, and he told the fragment just to remind you of the rest."

~ Location 3600-3604 kindle edition, Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Happy Tuesday all! This is such an interesting story. My cousin recommended it to me and so I decided to try it. It's not a gripping tale, but a story full of stories. So far I'm enjoying it! What are you reading right now? 

Toodle-loo kangaroos! Happy reading!

Teaser Tuesdays {Til Grits Do Us Part}

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!


My Teasers:

"I screamed and swerved around a cow pie, hearing a furious snort not far behind me--and a loud pounding of hooves. Dust rose up from the grass, making us cough."

~page 17, Til Grits Do Us Part, by Jennifer Rogers Spinola

Happy Tuesday to one and all! I hope you're having a fabulous day. I am having so much fun with this book; it's always good to get back to a series you love. (Plus the author is awesome! We've been chatting on Facebook, and having loads of fun talking about southern stuff.)  :) What are you reading this week?

 Toodle-loo kangaroos!

Teaser Tuesday {Unforgettable}

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!


My Teasers:

"She rested her head against the door, annoyed with herself. She was thirty-two years old, not an adolescent like Josh's niece Mary. Why couldn't she be more like Rita Hayworth, all sure of herself and slinky?"

~ page 86-87, Unforgettable by Trish Perry

Tuesday again! Boy do the weeks fly by! I interrupted my regularly scheduled reading to try this one again. I read it quite a while ago, and when I saw it sitting on my pile, decided a quick re-read was just what I needed! (Especially as the audiobook I just finished didn't thrill me to bits. I need something to perk me up and get me going again.) What are you reading this week?

Toodle-loo kangaroos!

Teaser Tuesday {Crocodile on the Sandbank}

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!


My Teasers:

 "People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill. Yet no sooner had we reached Rome than Miss Pritchett succumbed to the typhoid, like the weak-minded female she was."

 ~ page 6, Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

Happy Tuesday! I'm excited to read this one. I think I will laugh a lot. (At least that's what I'm hoping.)  :)

Toodle-loo kangaroos!
    

Teaser Tuesday {The Mountain Between Us}

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!


My Teasers:

 "Then, as if he'd done it a thousand times, he pancaked the plane against the mountain. The tail touched first, then the left wing, which hit something and snapped off."

~ page 37, The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

Happy Tuesday! I started this one a couple weeks ago, and haven't gotten back to it. I'm hoping this will get me interested again. :)

Toodle-loo kangaroos!