Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of Books and a Beat.

This week I’m in the middle of a re read of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (aka Sorcerer’s Stone). I can’t imagine anyone hasn’t heard of it but if you haven’t read it you really should. It’s been a while since I read it, probably more than 10 years, so it’s a little bit strange picking it up after all this time.

For my teaser I couldn’t resist a bit of Severus Snape. Just reading this I can’t help but picture Alan Rickman giving a variation of this speech in the film. He really was perfectly cast.

My Teaser

“I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with it’s shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses … I can teach you to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death – if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”

~ Page 137

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of Books and a Beat.

This week my teaser comes from Morning Star by Pierce Brown. It’s the final book in the Red Rising Trilogy which after a bit of a shaky start I have to say I’m absolutely loving. I’ve reached that stage where I want to know how it will end but I don’t want it to be over (and I’m slightly worried that not everyone will make it). Anyway…

My Teaser

I see a man trying his best in a world that doesn’t give a shit. It breaks my heart.

Yet I don’t move, because I know I’m not witnessing the death of a friend as much as I’m seeing the rebirth of another.

~ Page 426

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of A Daily Rhythm.

I’m being a little bit of a cheat this week and rather than choosing from my current read I’ve decided to pick a couple of sentences from How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran, which I finished at the weekend. The writing is just so funny, explicit and unique I felt like I had to share something from it. There are a lot of great sentences to choose from although I was a little limited by trying to avoid anything too explicit or sweary 🙂  Anyway, here’s this week’s teaser.

My Teaser

Because my biggest secret of all – the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn’t even put in my diary – is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much – because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it’s too exhausting not to be.

~ Page 56

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of A Daily Rhythm.

For this week’s teaser I’ve decided to pick a couple of sentences from my current read, Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre. It’s about a surgeon and former blogger who may or may not have killer her husband of 6 months. Seems an appropriate choice for a post Valentines teaser 🙂 It’s definitely a cautionary tale for bloggers everywhere.

My Teaser

It’s terrifying to consider what can hang upon the smallest of quirks of happenstance: how much might be different but for the most minor confluences. I have no way of knowing for sure – we can’t run the events a second time to compare – but there is a strong case for saying that I would not have ended up where I am now but for a paper jam in a printer.

~ 49%

You’ve really got to watch out for IT equipment it causes all kinds of problems.

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of A Daily Rhythm.

I’m currently reading Fairest by Marissa Meyer. It’s book 3.5 in the Lunar Chronicles and tells the story of Queen Levana who, for those unfamiliar with the series, is based on the evil queen from Snow White and has a bit of a thing about mirrors. I have to admit to having a little bit of sympathy for her as she doesn’t have an easy time of it but not sure it really justifies her actions. Anyway, here’s this weeks teaser.

My Teaser

The yearning grew quietly at first, taking the place in her belly where a child should have been. It thrived somewhere so deep inside her she hadn’t even known it existed until one day she looked up at the planet hanging, mocking her, just out of reach, and she almost fell to her knees with the strength of her want.

~ page 181

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. If you want to join in grab your current read, flick to a random page, select two sentences (without spoilers) and share them in a blog post or in the comments of A Daily Rhythm.

I’m almost at the end of Monsters of Men, the final part of the Chaos Walking Trilogy, by Patrick Ness so I thought I’d sneak in another teaser from it. The writing takes a little bit of getting used to but it’s definitely worth it. Such a great series. I will be sad when it’s over.

My Teaser

I can tell he forgives me.

He forgives me for all of it, tells me I don’t even need to be forgiven, tells me I did the best I could, that I made mistakes but that’s what makes me human and that it’s not the mistakes I made but how I responded to ’em and I can feel it from him, feel it from his Noise, telling me how I can stop now, how everything’s gonna be all right-

~ page 449

Happy reading everyone.