Teaser Tuesday [November 4]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser:

"Now isn't the time to change yourself to fit into the world," Clancy said, his voice raw with whatever thoughts were storming beneath his skin. "You should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged."

— In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken (page 234)

Teaser Tuesday [October 21]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser is brought to you by the lovely V.E. Victoria Schwab:

Eli rubbed his thumb over the fresh skin of his palm, but Victor was the first to speak, and when he did, it was with an eloquence and composure perfectly befitting the situation. "Holy shit."

— Vicious by V.E. Schwab (page 87)

Teaser Tuesday [October 14]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser is brought to you by the amazing Beth Revis' new book:

"Jack doesn't remember the exact things we said, just the fight. Then one sentence rises from the chaos of sound: They deserved to die, and so do you."

— The Body Electric by Beth Revis (page 170)

Teaser Tuesday . . . on Thursday [October 9]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser is brought to you by Annabeth Chase:

"Piper McLean," she grumbled, "that was without a doubt the dumbest risk I've ever seen anyone take, and I date a dumb risk-taker."

— Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

Teaser Tuesday [September 16]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser is brought to you by the zombie-infested first book in the Something Strange and Deadly trilogy:

"Just as my brain screamed for this hot oil to leave my skin, for my heart to slow, that I could take no more, a howl of pain erupted from Joseph's mouth. The lines of blue lightning stopped. The darkness was gone."

— Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard (page 184)

Teaser Tuesday [August 12]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


 This week's teaser:

"This message had been embedded in the log-in sequence by James Halliday himself, when he'd first programmed the OASIS, as a homage to the simulation's direct ancestors, the coin-operated video-games of his youth. These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: Ready Player One."

— Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (page 26)

Teaser Tuesday [July 29]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"I like red—don't get me wrong. But I have a deep appreciation for anything that is willing to be totally and utterly itself. If you're going to be red, well, then, be red, goddammit. From your steering wheel to your hubcaps, be red."

— Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid (page 13)

Teaser Tuesday [July 22]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser, brought to you by book two of The Dispossessed:

"Ingrid jerked back, stung, especially after the tender way he'd described her scent. 'If he's anything like you, he'll learn it's much easier to be heartless.'"

— The Lovely and the Lost by Page Morgan (page 87)

Teaser Tuesday [July 1]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's, extremely ominous teaser:

"Leave now, Dusty. Paul's message read. It's dangerous. Don't talk to her. Don't do anything except get out."

— The Nightmare Dilemma by Mindee Arnett (page 200)

Teaser Tuesday [June 10]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser is brought to you by the ANXIETY-FILLED final book of the Chaos Walking trilogy:

"'And what other kind of man would you want leading you into battle?' he says, reading my Noise. 'What other kind of man is suitable for war?'

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes monsters of men."

— Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness (page 11)

Teaser Tuesday [May 20]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



Fact: I love circus books.

"Camel turns toward me, clears his throat, and speaks slowly, savoring each word. 'You didn't just jump a train, boy. You done jumped the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.'"

— Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (page 28)

Teaser Tuesday [April 22]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away). 



Today's teaser, brought to you by Harper Price:

"Even though this was scary and dangerous and so, so illegal... it was fun. I'm always happiest when I'm excelling at something, and, to quote one of those World of Warcraft websites I'd stumbled onto, these bad guys were about to get pwned."

— Rebel Belle by Rachel Hawkins (page 88)

Teaser Tuesday [April 8]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"In the name of Ozma of Oz," the Tin Woodman said grimly, his voice robotic and scratchy, "by order of Princess Dorothy, I—the Tin Woodman of Oz, Grand Inquisitor of the Emerald Police and commander of the Tin Soldiers—hereby arrest you for crimes of treason."

— Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige (page 80)

Teaser Tuesday [April 1]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"When she finally reached the small metal ledge that ran along the circumference of the water tower and hauled herself to her feet, the fear came swinging back. There was nothing to hold on to, only smooth, wet metal behind her back, and air everywhere; only a few inches' difference between being alive and not."

— Panic by Lauren Oliver (page 40)

Teaser Tuesday [March 25]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



Today's teaser, courtesy of Veronica Rossi:

"Then she saw something roll downhill as if it had been bowled toward her. It hit a bump that shook loose a pale mask, and now she saw clear blue eyes and a nose and white teeth and black hair, tumbling over the dirt and trailing red."

— Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (page 149)

Teaser Tuesday [March 11]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser is brought to you by Lucky Linderman:

"Apparently, smiling and joking was an additional sign that I needed 'real help.' And so I initiated Operation Don't Smile Ever. It's been a very successful operation. We have perplexed many an enemy."

— Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King (page 6)

Teaser Tuesday [February 18]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser, via Rose Hathaway of Vampire Academy:

"Forcing five-year-olds to spell Vasilisa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway was beyond cruel, and we'd—or rather, I'd—responded appropriately. I'd chucked my book at our teacher and called her a fascist bastard." 

— Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (page 8)

Teaser Tuesday [January 28]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser is brought to you by Ransom Rigg's new book, Hollow City:

"And the farther away she got, the faster it spun, like there was an invisible cord unreeling from it that stretched between us, and if she went too far it would snap—and kill me. I wondered if this strange, sweet pain was love."

— Hollow City (Miss Peregrine #2) by Ransom Riggs (page 106-7)

Teaser Tuesday [January 21]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser:

"One damaged soul in exchange for thousands of netherling lives. It's a fair trade."

— Unhinged (Splintered #2) by A.G. Howard (page 76)

Teaser Tuesday [January 7]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).



This week's teaser, courtesy of Ed Kennedy: 

"It's three in the morning, I'm playing the Proclaimers too loud for their own bloody good, and I'm pretty sure I have to go and kill someone. My life has really become worthwhile, hasn't it?"

— I Am the Messenger by Marcus Zusak (page 81)