Teaser Tuesday-July 21

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This week my teaser is from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak:
He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the book thief without the words.

pg. 80

Teaser Tuesday-May 5

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This week my teaser is from Still Life With Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen:
Rebecca is unable to tell the difference between the breathing of a man performing rhythmic exercise and one in the throes of coitus.  Which may be the clearest reflection of her sex life during her marriage.


pg. 110

Teaser Tuesday-April 14

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This week my teaser is from The Fine Color of Rust by P.A. O'Reilly:
My husband Tony-God love him wherever he may be and keep him there and never let him come back into my life-was a stomper.  He stomped through the house as though he was trying to keep down unruly carpet; he stomped in and out of shops and pubs, letting doors slam around him; he stomped to work at the delivery company and stomped home stinking of his own fug after eight hours in the truck; and one day he stomped out to the good car and drove off and never stomped back.

pg. 22-23

Teaser Tuesday-March 24

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This week my teaser is from Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand:

He found several thick chocolate bars-probably Hershey's military-issue Ration D bars-divided into segments and packaged in wax-dipped containers to resist gas attack.  Designed to be unpalatably bitter so soldiers would eat them only in dire circumstances, they were formulated to be highly caloric and melt-resistant.

pg. 127

Teaser Tuesday-Nov. 4

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This week my teaser is from An Unexpected Grace by Kristin von Kreisler:
"Because he seemed like he was trying to look prosperous.  Janitors don't usually wear sports coats and ties."

pg. 39

Teaser Tuesday-Sept. 16

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This week my teaser is from The Bully of Order by Brian Hart:
He knew that what makes a boy lonesome makes a boy mean.  Hide what you can and destroy what you can't hide.

pg. 71
***Please note that this is from an Advanced Reading Copy so the final printing may change.

Teaser Tuesday-Aug. 19

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This week my teaser is from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith:
She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.  Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

pg. 166

Teaser Tuesday-Aug. 5

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This week my teaser is from Safe With Me by Amy Hatvany:
Her breath freezes in her lungs, worried about what might happen next.  But then he lifts her hand to his mouth and kisses the inside of her palm.

pg. 278

Teaser Tuesday-June 17

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This week my teaser is from China Dolls by Lisa See:
I also wanted to avoid the kitchen, where my sisters-in-law would ignore me and my mother would struggle for something to say as though anything she could utter could possibly change my status in the household or the world.  How could I live in a compound with three generations of my relatives-all so alive with all their breathing, eating, and siring-and still be so lonely?

pg. 32
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Teaser Tuesday-May 13

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This week my teaser is from The Supreme Macaroni Company by Adriana Trigiani:
 "Clickety-Clack regaled me with a half-hour tutorial on face fillers.  I told her the only face fillers Italians believe in are cannolis."

Pg. 37

Teaser Tuesday-April 8

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This week my teaser is from Fallout by Sadie Jones:
People were happy to watch now; now that she was captive.  Stopping and staring, talking about her.

pg. 128
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I was on vacation in Mexico last week and was able to get through most of this novel.  The writing in this book is awesome!

Teaser Tuesday-March 25

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This week my teaser is from The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley:
She loved to shoot with a long lens, catching me unaware.  She said that's when you find a person's spirit, their truth.

pg. 133

Teaser Tuesday-Feb. 11

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This week my teaser is from The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore:
"Seen too many women stitch their fingers together.  Just last week Ida Lawson done stitched her tit."

Pg. 17
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I was reading this part during my lunch hour and I couldn't help myself from laughing out loud!

Teaser Tuesday-Feb. 4

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This week my teaser from The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker:
That was one thing I always knew Serena Jane envied about me.  She thought I never had to worry that there wasn't enough of me to go around, but she finally found out she'd been completely wrong.

pg. 106

Teaser Tuesday-Oct. 29

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This week my teaser is from In the Land of Blue Burqas by Kate McCord:
In Afghanistan, virtually every aspect of the culture finds its support in some Islamic teaching.  Religion and culture are intertwined; the first justifies and defends the second.

pg. 164

Teaser Tuesday-Oct. 8

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This week my teaser is from Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin:
Maybe they thought by introducing him to it at a young age he'd grow up okay with it.  But you can start out with all the good intentions you like and still everything can go wrong.

pg. 291

Teaser Tuesday-Aug. 13

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This week my teaser is from The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski:
"I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell, and earth all at the same time.  And we still wouldn't know what to do differently."

pg. 256

Teaser Tuesday-June 18

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This week my teaser is from A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee:
Ben smiled, and immediately wished he hadn't.  Something was broken in there, or if not broken, then way too loose.

Kindle location 297 of 3878

***Please note that this is from an Advanced Reading Copy so the final printing may change.

Teaser Tuesday-May 28

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This week my teaser is from The Sisters by Nancy Jensen:
No matter how much she wanted to, she couldn't ask Mother about it, since she'd stolen the picture from the family Bible-way in the back in the Book of Revelation that nobody ever read.  If she wanted to know about it, she'd have to put it back in the Bible and pretend to find it again, but she was afraid if she did, Mother might take it away and hide it someplace Alma could never find it.

pg. 51

Teaser Tuesday-April 30

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This week my teaser is from The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan:
Only a woman sitting slumped across the tavern stays as long as we do, always gazing down, just past the glass of cassis she cannot muster the will to take.  It breaks my heart, the loneliness in the face of that woman, the fellow sitting beside her, reading the newspaper and dozing off without so much as a moment's notice given over to her, and here is what I imagine brought her to this place.

pg. 30

***Please note that this is from an Advanced Reading Copy so the final printing may change.