Teaser Tuesday~May 21st, 2013

 

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!
Here's my teaser for this week!

"Pete never failed to be amused by the uppity righteous crowd and their complete oblivion to danger. It's why they were the easiest targets of all-the thought that they were presently in danger never even crossed their minds. It was almost too easy. Almost."

Teaser Tuesday! April 30th

 

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!
One of the books that I am currently reading is a Christian fiction novel called:

My Teaser:
Ellie pushed open the heavy door of the Pinkerton Agency, wincing slightly as the pebble she'd placed in her boot pressed into her heel. Heeding the reminder to alter her gait, she limped toward the oak desk.
(pg. 34)

Teaser Tuesday~Jan. 29th 2013

 

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 TEASER:
 This a long teaser Tuesday, but well worth it. In this excerpt, Anne is feeding the hungry and poor in the kitchen of the home she serves in. She had been saving a cube of sugar to give to the Master's dog, but blessed this little girl with it instead. The little girl had never seen or tasted sugar. Here is what happens when she asks what it is:

 The door blew open in the March wind as yet another of Tiverton's needy slipped into the kitchen. Anne took a little notice. She knelt before the ragged girl and grasped her sparrow thin hands. "For this moment, you are a duchess," she said softly. In your mouth is the taste of Christmas plum pudding, black currant ice cream, treacle, and the Turkish delight. You are dressed in a gown of fine green silk caught up with rosettes of pink ribbon. At your neck is gathered a link of the most exquisite Pointe d'Angleterre lace. your hair is braided, looped, and curled. Your skin is scented with fragrant heliotrope.

"Now that's a good 'un," a man said with a laugh. "She smells more like coal dust, I should think."

"Hush!" a woman gave him a sharp elbow. "Do not spoil it."

Anne watched the little girl drift in the vision she had created. "White gloves slide up your fingers and over your arms, all the way to your elbows. You have in your possession a lace fan figured with tiny Chinamen trotting across a footbridge. On your feet you wear thin slippers of emerald green kidskin. Pale mint ribbons wind around your ankles. You dance like the wind; your voice sings as high and clear as a bird's; you can draw and stitch and play the pianoforte better than anyone in the realm. In short, my little one, you are the most enchanting dutchess in all of England. That is the taste in your mouth. It is dreams."

"Coo!" the little girls eyes popped open, and everyone chuckled as she threw her grimy arms around Anne's neck. "I almost thought it was true!"

Teaser Tuesday! Oct. 23rd

"A bully of a boy had challenged her to a horse race. And she beat him squarely. At the time she hadn't known that he was the son of her father's superior officer, and had not considered the possibility that her father and his fellow officers would catch her riding straddle-legged and wearing breeches beneath her skirt".


Here's how it works!
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!!

Teaser Tuesday ~ Sept. 11th

 

 

"Because Papa is balancing himself on a copy of War and Peace", Elizabeth explained. "Mother was the same height as Papa, you see, so he brought the book from his library to the photographer's."

 Julia had to smile. "Your father doesn't strike me as being selfconscious about his height."

"Actually, he isn't. But he says he didn't want future generations referring to him as 'the short Grandfather Phelps.' Yet he tells everyone who sees the photograph that he's perched upon a book."

Here's how it works!
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!!

Teaser Tuesday~July 10

"Sarah closed her eyes for a second, grappling with the fact that the man who had written her those beautiful letters asking her to marry him was gone before she had had a chance to meet him, to hear his voice, and to see if his smile really was as big as the state of Texas."


Here's how it works!
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!!

Teaser Tuesday~June 26th

Here's how it works!
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!

 

"The iron should be hot now. She'd observed her maid ironing before, but she had never really paid much attention to how she actually did it. It couldn't be that hard, could it?"

 

Teaser Tuesday~June 19th

 

Here's how it works!
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!

"Final stop, Billings, Montana!" he called, then continued walking down the aisle.

April couldn't wait to disembark and stretch her legs. She was much more comfortable on horseback and preferred that way to travel. "Excuse me," she said to the gentleman blocking the aisle. He was bent over trying to collect his paperwork in the seat across from her. "This is where I must get off."

"Well, miss, it's the last run of the evening"-he straightened to give her a level stare-"so there's no hurry."

"I beg your pardon." April gazed back at  the dark-haired man whose eyes twinkled with mischief in his affable face.

Teaser Tuesday! June 12th

It's 11:48 pm, so I almost missed it!

 

 "I mean, you say your people don't fight. You told me before that you would not fight even to save your own life. But after what I have told you, Herr Bender, would you not kill El Pantera to save your daughters from such a fate?"
 

Here's how it works!
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!

Teaser Tuesday! May 29th

 From "It Had to Be You" by Janice Thompson
(This is book #3 is the 'Weddings by Bella' series!)
This series is a laugh-out-loud, Christian romantic comedy!


 "She began to reach for several pots and pans, making a tremendous amount of noise as she went. Relieving stress, no doubt. Getting some of her emotions out in the open. Beating them to death with a frying pan." (pg 134).


Here's how it works!
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!

Teaser Tuesday!

"And I've already figured out the perfect menu-buffalo chicken wings, banana pudding, and Dr. Pepper! These New Englanders have never had food like that before."

From "A Single Thread" (Cobbled Court Quilts book 1) by Marie Bostwick.

 

 

 

 

 

Here's how it works!
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!

Teaser Tuesday!

"It isn't like me, but, as you've probably noticed, being myself hasn't been working out too well for me lately. I thought I'd try being someone else, someone spontaneous and unpredictable."

From "A Single Thread" (Cobbled Court Quilts book 1) by Marie Bostwick.

Here's how it works!

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!

Teaser Tuesday!

"The music began, and my heart raced to my throat. Though I felt a little childish admitting it, there was something about performances-plays, operas, and even some movies-that held me spellbound".


This is from "Swinging on a Star" (Weddings by Bella book #2) by Janice Thompson




Here's how it works!

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!

(FYI: I found the "Tuesday Teaser" on Should be Reading's blog).