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 was lucky enough to get my hands on an ARC of Summer Days and Summer Nights from NetGalley. It’s a collection of twelve YA short stories with a bit of a summer romance theme. It’s edited by Stephanie Perkins and includes stories by a few of my favourite authors (Leigh Bardugo, Veronica Roth, Nina LaCour, Cassandra Clare) as well as some authors I haven’t come across. I’m generally not a fan of short stories but I’m really enjoying this collection.

My Teaser

On the Upper West Side, above the bakeries and delicatessens, the Woolworth’s and the Red Apple market, people slept on top of their sheets, sucked on handkerchiefs full of crushed ice, and opened their windows wide, praying for a breeze. That was why, when the Hudson leaped it’s banks and went looking for trouble on a hot July night, the river found Ruth Blonsky’s window wedged open with a dented Candie’s shoe box.

~ location 62, Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo

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.

I was feeling a little bit down at the weekend so to cheer myself up I turned to The Nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor. I read it a year or so ago but had forgotten just how great it is. I had intended just to read the odd couple of pages but once I started I couldn’t stop and ended up reading the whole thing from start to finish. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me smile (a lot) but mostly it just made me feel all warm and fuzzy so I had to use it for this weeks teaser.

My Teaser

Weddings are a long, rain-drenched nightmare when the only sounds are your relatives venomously hissing in dark corners. I don’t know how anyone who doesn’t have a giant, golden horse gets through them.

~ page 100

If you like books with eccentric characters, romance, a tiny bit of mystery and lots of animals (including an imaginary/guardian angel horse called Thomas) I’d definitely recommend.

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 bank holiday weekend turned into a bit of a Talon saga read-a-thon with all three books read over the last four days. I finished the latest book Soldier late last night and I think it might take me a while to recover from THAT ending!!! Julie Kagawa is evil. How am I supposed to wait for the next one?

Anyway, while I’m obsessing over dragons and soldiers and trying to guess what happens next here’s this weeks teaser.

My Teaser

For just a moment, I remembered the words of a certain human soldier long ago, when I first accused him of paranoia. It’s not being paranoid, if they’re really out to get you.

~ location 469

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.

I scheduled this post over a week ago as today will be the final day of my holiday so I really don’t know what I’m currently reading (if anything). I am however planning to make a start on Talon by Julie Kagawa so it seemed like a good choice for this weeks teaser.

My Teaser

“He was about my age, maybe a little older, with cropped hair that glinted a pale gold in the sunlight. He was tan, lean and muscular, as if he spent most of his time out in the sun and the rest at the gym”

~ page 65

Per last week’s post I’m not sure what access I’ll have to my blog but will respond to any comments and work my way round everyone’s teasers when I can.

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 You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour. It’s a YA contemporary story about Mark and Kate who meet during Pride week in San Francisco at a time when they each need a friend the most. This is my first book by either of these authors and I’m enjoying it a lot.

My Teaser

“I am so mad at him and I am so in love with him, and it hurts to be realizing it like this. Would I fight for him? I have been fighting for him for years. And I’m losing. No matter what I do, I’m losing. But I have to fight anyway.”

~ 40%

I’m on holiday this week and have scheduled this post in advance so apologies now if I don’t manage to reply to any comments. I will definitely catch up on them at some point.

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.

I’m between books again at the moment so this week’s teaser is from Who’s That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane which I finished at the weekend. If you like chick lit I’d definitely recommend. It’s about a woman who somehow ends up at the center of a scandal at work and flees to her family home to hide. She’s tasked with ghost writing a biography for a famous actor while she’s there but the two don’t exactly hit it off at the start. It’s funny, it’s sad and it’s completely addictive reading.

My Teaser

The thing about her reputation, she finally accepted – it was like Elliot’s anonymity. She’d given it away and she was never getting it back.

~ 31%

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 Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye which is kind of a gothic re telling of Jane Eyre. I say kind of because the main character refers to the literary heroine quite regularly and compares their lives and circumstances. Their lives are fairly similar, both are orphaned, sent off to the worst possible boarding school and end up working as governesses but Ms Steele has slightly more flexible morals and beliefs than Ms Eyre.

This has been one of my favourite reads this year and definitely one I’d recommend.

My Teaser

Some cities bustle, some meander, I have read; London blazes, and it incinerates. London is the wolf’s maw. From the instant I arrived there, I loved every smouldering inch of it.

~ Location 1299

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.

As I’m currently between books I’m being a bit of a cheat again this week and using one I recently finished, Flawed by Cecelia Ahern. I’ve always been a big fan of Cecelia Ahern and while this book marks a move into a new genre for her (YA dystopian) I still loved it. You can find my full review here.

My Teaser

When you see something, it can’t be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can’t be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.

~ Location 151

Happy reading everyone.