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  • Teaser Tuesday – Ex-mas

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “Lila had no idea why she was acting like pop music was this important to her. It was something in the way Beau dismissed it, like it was beneath him–while he was listening to glorified polka music.”
    pg. 64 – Ex-mas by Kate Brian

    – I love a lot of Kate Brian’s books (although I’ve never read any in the Private series), and I was so thrilled to find out that she has a brand new Christmas novel for young adults–seeing how much I love Christmas stories. This one is shaping up to be just as smart and fun as her others. Happy Christmas reading!

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    Teaser Tuesday – Double Take

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “Kenzie held her breath, fighting the urge to run. No one would hurt her here. The kidnappers had made their escape. That’s all they’d wanted, right?”
    pg. 42 – Double Take by Jenness Walker

    – Just picked this fun little read up at Walmart for $3.50. You can’t beat that. Seriously! Plus Jenness is a really wonderful writer and a new friend of mine. I’m thrilled to read her book. And you’ll be hearing more from her later this week. So swing back by for my interview with her on Friday.

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    Teaser Tuesdays – Front and Center

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “Grandpa Warren–Dad’s dad, who Win was named after–he had some pretty strange tastes in food. It’s a wonder we like anything normal considering how much he loved pigs’ feet and blood sausage and head cheese, all these strange meats that you eat when it’s your own animals and you can’t waste one little bit.”
    pg. 51  – Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

    D.J. Schwenk is back in the conclusion to the trilogy that began with Dairy Queen. I loved DQ and The Off Season, the first two books about her, and I can’t wait to see how it all wraps up. Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an uber-talented writer.

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    Teaser Tuesday – So Not Happening

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “I barely resist a second eye roll. ‘I’m in a skirt.’ I motion for him to face the other direction, then with very unladylike grunts and probably a flash of my undies, I crawl out of the dump and back onto terra firma.”
    pg. 100 – So Not Happening by Jenny B. Jones

    – I’ve only ever heard amazing things about Jenny B. Jones and her YA books, but I haven’t read anything of hers. Until now. I picked up this book during my recent Family Christian Store coupon shopping spree, and I can’t wait to really dive into it!

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    Teaser Tuesday – Before the Season Ends

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “She looked very pretty in full evening dress with the long, empire-waisted white gown and matching white gloves that reached her elbows. Her hair was done high and upon her head and she was standing, with a small smile upon her mouth, looking at Mr. Mornay as if he were an angel.”
    pg. 97 – Before the Season Ends by Linore Rose Burkard

    – I’m 40 pages into this book and still not sure what I think of it. It’s so different from anything I’ve read in a long while. It breaks all the rules of modern writing, using omniscient point of view (that’s head-hopping for all you non-writers out there) and the detail to action ratio is higher than anyone I’ve read in recent years. Yet there’s something compelling about the heroine. I look forward to seeing how it all works out.

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    Teaser Tuesday – Where Honor Dwells

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “For much too long a moment, Rachel and Jake both felt the inertness of the ship. Then the sea came aboard a second time and the well deck filled, and the port wing of the hurricane deck touched the lifting waves.”
    pg. 135 – Where Honor Dwells by Gilbert Morris

    – I think I’ve read this book 6 times, but it’s in one of my favorite Civil War series. I’m 50 pages into it again, and I can’t stop laughing. Morris breaks every rule of contemporary writing, and I’m still enjoying it. Funny how the rules don’t count when I know I love the story.

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    Teaser Tuesday – Ransome’s Honor

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “Her cheeks burned under his intense gaze like an inexperienced girl at her debut. She clenched her teeth and tried to control her rising anxiety, but her hand trembled when she reached out to place it in William’s as they joined another couple in a circle.”
    pg. 172 – Ransome’s Honor by Kaye Dacus

    – I’m absolutely adoring this Jane Austen era book about Julia Witherington who doesn’t receive the expected proposal from William Ransome and promises not to ever care about him again. But when their paths cross again, all bets are off. This is the first in a new series from Kaye, and I can’t wait to finish this one and read the others in the next few years. I bet you’ll love it, too!

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    Teaser Tuesday – Amelia and the Outlaw

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “But now he wasn’t nearly as dangerous as the girl who stood before him. All she had to do was snap her fingers, and he’d be back behind prison walls.'”
    pg. 49 – Amelia and the Outlaw by Lorraine Heath

    – I haven’t actually started this book yet, but I’m super-excited to start it tonight. It’s another YA–just for teens. Just my kind of book. 🙂

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    Teaser Tuesday – sort of …

    So today, I want to offer you a bit of a Teaser Tuesday of sorts. I’ve been reading a book that I can never remember the name of. I just call it the Potato Peel book. If you’ve read it, then you know what I’m talking about. But if you haven’t read it and you aren’t familiar with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Soceity by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows, you’re missing out. I’m 20 pages in, and I love it! It’s absolutely delightful.

    For the first time in my life, I wish I’d never used the word delightful to describe anything else. I wish I could have saved it for this very book.

    So today’s teaser is three-fold. First the quote from pg. 10, ” Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”

    Second, the challenge: Leave a comment to this post with the title of the book that you think might have a secret homing instinct to find you. (Today mine is the Potato Peel book. I had no idea I needed to be reminded of the delights of being a writer–even one in the middle of terrible revisions–until I started reading it.)

    Third, I’ll pick one commenter at random on July 14, and that person will win a copy of the paperback edition of the Potato Peel book.

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    Dreaming of our fair heroine Juliet and the guy she ends up with … whoever that is … until next time. -LJ

    Teaser Tuesday – Return to Love

    teaser_tuesdays1MizB of Should Be Reading hosts the Teaser Tuesdays weekly event

    Here are the rules:
    * 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!
    * Please avoid spoilers!

    This week’s teaser is:
    “The goal was to save the penguins, honor Reverand Alexander’s memory–and aquairium contributions–and do the best job she could. So when exactly had the goal altered to involve Carter?”
    pg. 106 – Return to Love by Betsy St. Amant

    – I’m super-exicted about this book by my good friend Betsy. 🙂 It releases July 1 and is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and lots of other retailers. Betsy did tons of research for this book, and it comes through clearly. It’s like she really works at an aquarium with penguins. But I know she doesn’t. 🙂 Hope you’ll enjoy it too!

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