Teaser Tuesday - #17: On a Dark Wing by Jordan Dane

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

By the time I jumped to my feet, he'd already become nothing more than a hazy shadow under the dense canopy of trees.  I thought about chasing after him, but something made me stay - like I didn't belong with him - not now.  In a strange way, I sensed him all around me even though I couldn't see him.  - page 164


Five years ago Abbey Chandler cheated Death. She survived a horrific car accident, but her lucky break came at the expense of her mother’s life and changed everything. After she crossed paths with Death—by taking the hand of an ethereal boy made of clouds and sky—she would never be normal again.

Now she’s the target of Death’s Ravens and an innocent boy’s life is on the line. When Nate Holden—Abbey’s secret crush—starts to climb Alaska’s Denali, the Angel of Death is with him because of her.

Abbey finds out the hard way that Death never forgets.

On a Dark Wing by Jordan Dane

Expected publication: 12.27.2011 (Harlequin Teen)

Further info: Goodreads | Amazon

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Teaser Tuesday - #16: Obsidian by Jennifer L Armentrout

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

Obsidian by Jennifer L Armentrout

Expected publication: 12.06.2011 (Entangled)

Further info: Goodreads | Amazon

"I think and talk better when I walk."  He held out a hand to me.  "If not, I turn into the dickhead Damon you're not very fond of."

"Ha. Ha."  I stared at his hand.  There was a fluttering in my stomach. "Yeah, I'm not holding your hand."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not going to hold hands with you when I don't even like you."

"Ouch."  Daemon placed a hand over his chest, wincing.  "That was harsh."

Yeah, he needed better acting classes.

 Starting over sucks.

When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring…. until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

And then he opened his mouth.

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something…unexpected happens.

The hot alien living next door marks me.

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon’s touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I’m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

If I don’t kill him first, that is.



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Teaser Tuesday - #15: Saving June by Hannah Harrington

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

Saving June by Hannah Harrington

Expected publication:  11.22.2011 (Harlequin)
Further info: Goodreads | Amazon

It feels weird, being out in the real world again.  Around people living their lives like normal.  Their presence is oppressive.  The very fact that the world is going on like normal, like nothing ever happened, makes me want to scream.  I know it's irrational to expect everything to grind to a halt because of June, but still.   - Page 55

'If she’d waited less than two weeks, she’d be June who died in June. But I guess my sister didn’t consider that.’

Harper Scott’s older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone’s sorry, but no one can explain why.

When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister’s ashes into his-and-her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She’ll steal the ashes and drive cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going California.

Enter Jake Tolan. He’s a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession and nothing in common with Harper’s sister. But Jake had a connection with June, and when he insists on joining them, Harper’s just desperate enough to let him. With his alternately charming and infuriating demeanour and his belief that music can see you through anything, he might be exactly what she needs.

Except June wasn’t the only one hiding something. Jake’s keeping a secret that has the power to turn Harper’s life upside down again.

Teaser Tuesday - #14: The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

 Otto says nothing, only grabs me and spins me back past the sisters' house and onto the path home.  His sudden silence worries me more than any amount of shouting.  He pushes me ahead of him like a prisoner, and it takes all my will to not look back. ( - page 127)

The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. 

But when an actual stranger—a boy who seems to fade like smoke—appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.
The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.

As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know—about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.

Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab’s debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won’t soon forget. 

The Near Witch by Victoria Scwab
Published: 08.22.2011 (Hyperion)
Further info: Goodreads | Amazon

Teaser Tuesday: - #13: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

On my chest bone, the mistletoe rested.  I studied its irregular rise and fall.  Neither my heartbeat, nor my breath had returned to normal since reading the stranger's response in my palm.

The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen, Victoria has nowhere to go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. 

When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But it takes meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realise what's been missing in her own life, and as she starts to fall for him, she's forced to confront a painful secret from her past, and decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. 

"The Language of Flowers" is a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about the meaning of flowers, the meaning of family, and the meaning of love.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Published: 08.19.2011 (Ballantine Books)

Further info: Goodreads | Amazon

Teaser Tuesday - #12: Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

Jill did look better this morning, but she'd hardly had a solid's night sleep.

In fact, she'd woken in the middle of the night, screaming.

When alchemist Sydney is ordered into hiding to protect the life of Moroi princess Jill Dragomir, the last place she expects to be sent is a human private school in Palm Springs, California. But at their new school, the drama is only just beginning.

Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, Bloodlines explores all the friendship, romance, battles and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive - this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone's out for blood.

Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Published: 08.23.2011

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Teaser Tuesday - #11: Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

Connor strode confidently into the light-filled image.  His body blurred for a moment, and then there he was, standing among the crates.  He paused, stretching his arms and yawning, and then suddenly dropped his pants and mooned us.  

"Oh God, Connor," Adne groaned.  "Get through there and bite him, Shay."

"I'm not coming, remember?" Shay objected, but he laughed.  "Even if I was, I wouldn't bite his ass."

When Calla Tor wakes up in the lair of the Searchers, her sworn enemies, she’s certain her days are numbered. But then the Searchers make her an offer—one that gives her the chance to destroy her former masters and save the pack—and the man—she left behind. Is Ren worth the price of her freedom? And will Shay stand by her side no matter what? Now in control of her own destiny, Calla must decide which battles are worth fighting and how many trials true love can endure and still survive.

Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer 

Published: 07.26.2011

Teaser Tuesday - #10: A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

I can't answer.  I want to tell him everything.  I'm thinking that maybe I should try.  "It's not what you think," I start.  "When I saw Monroe, he - " 


And it's like I'm punched in the gut.  A crushing pain fills my belly, and I double over, falling to my knees on the floor.  Harlin yells my name but I can't answer.  The room is spinning.  I feel like I'm dying. 

We all want to be remembered. Charlotte's destiny is to be Forgotten...

Charlotte’s best friend thinks Charlotte might be psychic. Her boyfriend thinks she’s cheating on him. But Charlotte knows what’s really wrong: She is one of the Forgotten, a kind of angel on earth, who feels the Need—a powerful, uncontrollable draw to help someone, usually a stranger.

But Charlotte never wanted this responsibility. What she wants is to help her best friend, whose life is spiraling out of control. She wants to lie in her boyfriend's arms forever. But as the Need grows stronger, it begins to take a dangerous toll on Charlotte. And who she was, is, and will become--her mark on this earth, her very existence--is in jeopardy of disappearing completely.

Charlotte will be forced to choose: Should she embrace her fate as a Forgotten, a fate that promises to rip her from the lives of those she loves forever? Or is she willing to fight against her destiny--no matter how dark the consequences.

A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young

Published: 06.24.2011

Teaser Tuesday - #9: Hourglass by Myra McEntire

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple: 

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

We reached to pick up the vase at the same time, and our fingertips touched.  A current of energy pulsed through his hand to mine.  My skin felt too small, stretched too tight, as if searching out more exposure to his.  I heard several pings, and the table went dark.  

Something was very, very off.

I slowly raised my eyes to meet Michael's.  The muscles in his face tensed; his expression was completely unreadable.  Confused, maybe scared, I pulled away.  I could still feel the way electricity had flowed through his fingers to mine, all the way to the roots of my hair.

The remaining lights returned to normal.

Hourglass by Myra McEntire

Published: 06.14.2011 (Egmont USA)

One hour to rewrite the past . . .
 
For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he’s around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

Teaser Tuesday - #8 { The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong }

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

A shadow glided past me and I turned to see Derek at my shoulder.  As the dining room door swung shut behind him, I caught a glimpse of books and a calculator spread across the table.  He must have been there the whole time, doing independant work.

As he looked down at me, I expected some sarcastic comment about eavesdropping, but he only muttered, "Welcome to the madhouse," then brushed past me into the kitchen to swipe an extra snack.

The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong

Published: 07.01.08 (HarperTeen)

Pages: 390

After years of frequent moves following her mother’s death, Chloe Saunders’s life is finally settling down. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys. Her biggest concern is that she’s not developing as fast as her friends are. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges. Chloe starts seeing ghosts–everywhere, demanding her attention. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home.

At first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, except for Chloe’s small problem of fearing she might be facing a lifetime of mental illness. But as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the home–charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek, obnoxious Tori, and Rae, who has a “thing” for fire–Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual “problem kid” behaviour. And together they discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home either…

Teaser Tuesday - #6

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

I never tried to escape again.  I'd learned my lesson.  There were worse things than Stonehaven.  - Page 64

Elena Michaels seems like the typically strong and sexy modern woman, She lives with her architect boyfriend, writes for a popular newspaper, and works out at the gym. She's also a werewolf.

Elena has done all she can to assimilate to the human world, but the man whose bite changed her existence forever, and his legacy, continue to haunt her. Thrown into a desperate war for survival that tests her allegiance to a secret clan of werewolves, Elena must recon with who, and what, she is in this passionate, page-turning novel.

Teaser Tuesday - #5 + Top Ten Tuesday - #2

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.  (Full disclosure: I actually go hunting for a good teaser.  heehee.)
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.  (Um.  Sometimes I post more than 2 sentences.  hee.)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser.

 

Here were Jimmy and I, two orphans who had been brought up a step past utter poverty, getting ready to go to a fancy New York restaurant.  How strange and confusing time and events had been.  It was hard to determine what was real and what was a dream.  Maybe for the moment, I thought, it was better not to try.  - Secrets of the Morning; page 88

 

Shadowed by her tortured past, Dawn has a bright new life of glimmering hopes...

Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share.

Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the school, a singing star and the most wonderful looking man Dawn has ever seen. Together they create a world of feeling Dawn has never known. In his embrace Dawn awakens to disturbing, unfamiliar desires, and Michael's promises offer a vision of music and romance forever...until he disappears.

Dazed by his cruelty, alone with the bitter fruit of his betrayal, Dawn becomes, once again, a victim of her grandmothers twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return and renew with her their deepest hearts' dream...

{ ++ } Hosted by the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish, this meme features a different theme every week, and hey, it's Tuesday - we've got the rest of the week ahead of us.  We all need a little fun, and who doesn't love the challenge of ranking their top 10 anything...especially when it comes to books?!

{ ++ } This week's Top 10 is: Top Ten Bookish Websites, Organizations, Apps. Etc.




{ 1 } Goodreads!  I use this site to make new book-ish friends, as well as rank my favorite books, and keep up with my (virtual) to-be-read list!

{ 2 } Amazon.com.  I live in a small town with no real book store (sorry Hastings but you don't count) so I do a LOT of my book shopping here, when I can't get to a B&N.

{ 3 } NetGalley.  I'm just starting to learn my way around this site, but it seems like an awesome place to get sneak (digital) peeks at up-and-coming books. 

{ 4 } FictFact.  A neat site to help you track which series you want to read and make sure you get to read them in order. 

{ 5 } Patrick Rothfuss's official website.  (Oh...wait...you weren't looking for author websites?)

{ 6 } Blogger!  (Duh!)

{ 7 } What Should I Read Next.  A cool site I just discovered that recs books similar to the names of authors or favorite books you input into its search engine. 

{ 8 } BarnesandNoble.com.  I don't really think this needs an explanation, BUT.  Another awesome place to shop around for books.  : )

{ 9 } Jodi Picoult's official site.  What?  She's my girl.  I gotta show her some love.

{ 10 } And finally, JR Ward's official site.  The WARDen is just too cool.  She interacts with her fans on her message boards and posts regularly on her Facebook page.  I just want to hug her.  : D


{ ++ } That's it for this week.  Look for a new review from me tomorrow! 

Teaser Tuesday - #4 + Top Ten Tuesday - #1

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page  (Well to be fair, I never said I would actually follow all the rules!)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teaser

Ethel Lynn hurried forward to pass more secrets across enemy lines.

Staring her into silence, Theodora said, “Birdie’s moved on. Last I heard she’s in Miami.”

To accent her words, she withdrew her pistol and cocked the hammer.  Aiming for his nose, she added, “Now, why don’t you skedaddle before I send you a sight farther than Florida?”

- page 297

Petty thief Birdie Kaminsky has arrived in Liberty, Ohio to steal a treasure hidden since the Civil War. She’s in possession of a charming clue passed down in her family for generations: Liberty safeguards the cherished heart.

The beautiful thief wants to go straight. She secretly admires the clue’s author, freedwoman Justice Postell, who rose above the horrors of slavery to build a new life in Ohio. According to family lore, Justice left South Carolina at the dawn of the Civil War. If the stories are true, Justice bore a child with Lucas. Some of those black relatives might still live in town. Birdie can’t help but wonder if she’s found one—Liberty’s feisty matriarch, Theodora Hendricks, who packs a pistol and heartwarming stories about Justice. Birdie doesn’t know that an investigative reporter who has arrived in town will trip her up—as will her conscience when she begins to wonder if it’s possible to start a new life with stolen riches. Yet with each new clue she unearths, Birdie begins to discover a family history more precious than gems, a tradition of love richer than she could imagine.

{ ++ } Hosted by the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish, this meme features a different theme every week, and hey, it's Tuesday - we've got the rest of the week ahead of us.  We all need a little fun, and who doesn't love the challenge of ranking their top 10? 

{ ++ } This week's is a little different, because it's their blog's 1 year anniversary!  *throws confetti*  This week's top 10 is: Top Ten reasons why I love book blogging!

  { 1 } I get to be a total book geek and you wonderful people get it.  

{ 2 } I'm never without book recommendations!  Someone here is always reading/reviewing something new and great that I know I just have to read.

{ 3 } I'm making new connections, and hopefully, friends.  And c'mon, like anyone can ever have too many friends?!

{ 4 } I'm a writer, so composing my reviews is a really good exercise for me.  It makes me stop and think about my audience, and about what I want to carry across to my readers.

{ 5 } A lot of the books I see reviewed by my fellow bloggers are ones I might not have given a chance (ie a not so great cover, or a YA book I might have passed over, or a romance novel that is actually really really good, etc.)  Ya'll are teaching me to step outside my comfort zones, in some ways.

{ 6 } This is kinda like #1 but a little different... I get to bond with people over books.  I only have a few friends who actually want to read, so for me, seeing so many people here coming together, over books, is truly truly heart-warming.

{ 7 } Hiiiii, I get to find out all sorts of book-to-movie casting news, author announcements, and basically finally stay updated on the world of book news.

{ 8 } Blogger is a great place, I've discovered, to find out all about new authors!  

{ 9 } I simply love doing something that is both fun and productive, and writing up a review or a meme here gives me a few minutes to kinda disconnect from stress and work and life, and just be this girl who loves books.  : )

{ 10 } The joy I get from seeing new comments on a blog post of mine, knowing that I am interacting with people, seeing a good review of a book I have enjoyed or recommended!

 { ++ } Ok that's it for this week.  Look for my review of Treasure Me tomorrow!

Teaser Tuesdays - #4

{ ++ } Miz B over at Should Be Reading hosts this weekly meme, where us book lovers get a chance to spotlight our currently-reading and basically...do a little teasing.  : ) The rules are simple:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page  (Well to be fair, I never said I would actually follow all the rules!)
• 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 participants can add the book to their to-reads if they like your teasers! 

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love -- the deliria -- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Holoway has always looked forward to the day when she’ll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.

But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.  

(synopsis from Goodreads.com)

 They  told us the raids were carried out for our own protection.  They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace.  They told us told us that love was a disease.  They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time, I realize that this, too, might be a lie. 

- Delirium, page 280

{ ++ } I am hoping to push through and finish this book this evening.  If so, I will have my review up tomorrow!

Teaser Tuesdays - #3

{ ++ } Hosted over at Should Be Reading, this weekly meme is fun and simple: open your current read.  Pick out a juicy couple of sentences, and...tease away!

Generally I don't have the control problems that the werewolves do - coyotes are adaptable, amiable beasts. But at that moment, if I'd been in coyote form, I'd have been running away as fast as I could.

- Moon Called

Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.  @ amazon.com

Teaser Tuesdays: Masques

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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
 

"Having experienced the ae'Magi's touch firsthand, if only for a brief time compared to whatever he'd gone through, she finally understood some of what caused Wolf to be the way he was.  It increased her patience with him - but it didn't mean she was going to let him pull away again without a fight."

 

Masques, by Patricia Briggs - page 212

Teaser Tuesdays: Dawnkeepers

{ ++ } I'm adding something new this week, all in the name of talking up whatever awesome book I am currently reading: Teaser Tuesdays!

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!

His own personal amulet-to-be-named-at-a-later-date, the medallion was a flat metal disk etched on each side with a design that looked like the hawk bloodline glyph if he tipped it one way, a man if he tipped it another.  It had been the only identifying thing he'd been wearing when he'd been dumped at Cicago's Lying-In hospital, aside from the words My name is Nathan Blawkhawk, which had been carefully printed on his forehead in pen.

                                                 - Dawnkeepers, by Jessica Andersen