Teaser Tuesdays

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"I reread the paragraph three times and slowly deciphered the geek talk, only to realize it didn't tell me anything more than the first definition. On to the next one, also from Wikipedia."

Pg 105 of The Summoning by Kelley Armstong

Teaser Tuesdays

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"The Thirty-Third President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder. Bod was just glad the sack smelled of nothing worse than dusty wood"

Pg 80 of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Teaser Tuesdays

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
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"It could fly too, and quickly. It was headed straight towards them. But Jonathan had seen lots of darklings before, Jessica reminded herself. He had been out in midnight hundreds of times. He was faster than the bullies."

Pg 136 of The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters Series)

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"I passed a tall briar, shooing leafly and flowery branches across the path; I see the narrow stile with stone steps; and I see - Mr Rochester sitting there, a book and a pencil in his hand: he is writing.

Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him - or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence."

Pg 295 of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"A Blanket of dust on the rough wooden floor, on the table and the bed, on the cabinet that leaned on three lopsided legs with its door hanging open crookedly.

"This is where I'll hide," Po said"

Pg 231 Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better"

Pg 88 of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"I shook my head. "I'm sorry, I don't. It wasn't something I was interested in, back when I had access to the information. I'm afraid I took it for granted. Good health is simply a given on every planet I've lived on"

Pg 306 The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"Fire ants! AHHHHHHHHHHH! She jumped around and screamed and slapped with superhuman speed and dexterity until she got them all off. After that she looked up slowly, very slowly. In the full light of day she looked up, expecting to see the rest of the campers watching her insane performance"

3 Willows by Ann Brashares pg 161

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"I wanted to run away. Lucas deserved better than that, so I would have to overcome my shame. Forcing myself to go towards him, I called, 'Lucas? Are you Okay"

pg 155 of Evernight by Claudia Gray

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"There was nothing the new governess couldn't do if she put her mind to it. That's how it seemed at first, anyway."

pg 182 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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" I don't see anything," he called down, but he wasn't sure if anyone heard him.

The ascent was slow. Jared felt like he couldn't breathe. His knees were pressing against his chest, and his feet were cramping from being bent so long. He wondered if the candle was sucking up all the available oxygen. "

Page 28 of The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide by Tony Di Terlizzi and Holly Black

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
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"What is the secret of life? We call it "grace" or "blessing". Everyone struggles to be satisfied with what they have. Apart from me. Apart from you. Apart from a few people who will, alas, have to make a small sacrifice in the name of something greater"

Pg 196 The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"GOD BLESS morphine. In the morning she was in bright spirits, affectionate in a slightly guilty way. At breakfast she swallowed another pill and sat at the table gazing out at the garden. " It's a nice day" she cried, with hectic eagerness. "We should get stuck into the garden. Do some weeding"

Page 83 of The Spare Room by Helen Garner

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"I was afraid you might be one of those vegetarians". Then he turned to me, apparently out of small talk .." Your mother's inside"

Page 147 of The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"The Lights went out in Lab 3, and as the assembled audience watched in silent awe, Julius and Lachlan played back the video footage of their spectacular rutual at Stonehenge.

Purple light played over Jack's face as he saw the Firestone burst to life in the midst of the dark circle of ancient stones"

Page 218 of The Six Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"On a night very like this, many years ago, his whole life had changed. It might have been the age of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but there were also people around at the time in search of unknown forces, forces they didn't even believe in. They made use of magical powers, all the while thinking that they were stronger than the powers themselves, convinced that they'd be able to leave the Tradition as soon as boredom set in"

Pg 168 of Brida by Paulo Coelho

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"Here is a Riddle, Sir, an old Riddle, an easy Riddle - hardly worth your thinking about - a fragile Riddle, in white and Gold with life in the middle of it. There is a gold, soft cushion, whose gloss you may only paradoxically imagine with your eyes closed tight - see it feelingly, let it slip through your mind's fingers. And this gold cushion is enclosed in its own crystalline casket, a casket translucent and endless in its circularity, for there are no sharp corners to it, no protrusions, only milky moonstone clarity that deceives"

Pg 137 of Possession by A S Byatt

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
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"A simple and heart-warming fable, one might think - in which case, one would reveal oneself to be an innocent nincompoop. A pro-Muggle story showing a Muggle-Loving father as superior in magic to a Muggle-hating son?"

Pg 12 of The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J K Rowling