Teaser Tuesday: Quarantine

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. (I always cheat and use more than 2!)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• 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 week is from Quarantine by John Smolens:

"You seem quite well today," he ventured.
"Better than your cousin," she whispered.
"My cousin? Which one?"
"He's--" she began, but hesitated.
"He is ill?"
"He is pickled."

I had to pick that part, because I love it, but I must admit it makes the book seem much more lighthearted than it really is.

Teaser Tuesday: Talisman of El

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. (I always cheat and use more than 2!)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• 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 week is from Talisman of El by Alecia Stone:

An ear-piercing scream ripped through the building. Derkein froze, his eyes the only things that moved. His gaze fixed on his father, who was rummaging through his bag. He took out a black pistol and turned to Derkein, a tortured expression on his face as he placed the weapon in his son's trembling hand.

Teaser Tuesday: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. (I always cheat and use more than 2!)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• 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 week is from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum:

Therefore, one year when the wicked tribe was to elect a new King, they chose an Awgwa who proposed to destroy Claus and take him away from the children.

"There are, as you know, fewer naughty children in the world since Claus came to the Laughing Valley and began to make his toys," said the new King, as he squatted upon a rock and looked around at the scowling faces of his people.

Teaser Tuesday: The Solstice Cup

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. (I always cheat and use more than 2!)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• 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 week is from The Solstice Cup by Rachel Dunstan Muller:

"This is insane!" Breanne hissed. "We're in the middle of a bog, who knows how many miles away from where we should be, with some whacked old woman who wants to make us her houseguests for a week. It's like something out of some twisted horror movie!"

Teaser Tuesday: Little Brother

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page. (I always cheat and use more than 2!)
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• 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 week is from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow:

"If you want to really screw the DSH, you have to embarass them. It's not like you're going to be able to outshoot them. Your only weapon is your ability to make them look like morons."

Teaser Tuesday: Unraveling Isobel

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, 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!
• 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 week is from Unraveling Isobel by Eileen Cook. The book doesn't come out until January, so this is a real teaser! I probably won't post my review until shortly before the publication date. Today's teaser describes a feeling I know all too well:

I would have sworn the road into town had been flat yesterday, but now that I was biking, it was clear there were hills. Lots of hills. It was also clear that my cardio levels were that of an eighty-year-old woman who smoked a few packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day.

Teaser Tuesday: The Revenge of the Dwarves

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, 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!
• 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 week is from The Revenge of the Dwarves by Markus Heitz:

Without warning, the dwarf struck him on the head with the flat of his shovel, sending Malbalor flying back against the wall half senseless.

"Treachery!" he shouted as loud as he could, but then his heavy eyelids closed.

Teaser Tuesday: The Shining

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

To participate, 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!
• 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 is from The Shining by Stephen King:

Jack awoke from a thin and uneasy sleep where huge and ill-defined shapes chased him through endless snowfields to what he first thought was another dream: darkness, and in it, a sudden mechanical jumble of noises--clicks and clanks, hummings, rattlings, snaps and whooshes.
Then Wendy sat up beside him and he knew it was no dream.