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Teaser Tuesday: 5th January 2015

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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.

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This week I’m between books. I just finished A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab and am suffering from an almighty book hangover. It is such a good book I need a couple of days to recover from it before I start anything else or post a review. In the meantime here’s a teaser from it.

My TeaserA Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic, #1)

“My life is mine to spend,” she said. “And I will not spend it here, no matter how nice your city is, or how much safer it might be.”

~ page 327

If anyone hasn’t read it yet I would definitely recommend.

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday: 22nd December 2015

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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 have a bit of a confession to make this week, I’ve never read a single book by Charles Dickens. Shocking I know but I’ve decided to rectify the situation by getting in the spirit of the season and reading A Christmas Carol. I’ve just started but couldn’t resist using it for this week’s teaser.

A Christmas CarolMy Teaser

It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin.

~ page 31

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday: 15th December 2015

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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.

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This week I’m reading The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. It’s about a librarian who travels to alternate realities to retrieve books. Bit of a mixture of detective story, science fiction and fantasy with some steampunk thrown in for good measure.

The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1)My Teaser

Irene paused, considering what words she could use that wouldn’t get her into trouble later if repeated elsewhere. She personally liked Coppelia, but words such as Machiavellian, efficiently unprincipled, and ice-hearted didn’t always go down well in conversations.

~ page 26

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday: 8th December 2015

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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.

TeaserTuesday-ADailyRhythm3This week I’m reading Clockwork Prince, the second in the Infernal Devices series. I love Cassandra Clare’s writing so there was no way I could limit myself to just two sentences.

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)My Teaser

His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. “I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?”

~ page 292

If she doesn’t want him I do.

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday: 24 November 2015

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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.

TeaserTuesday-ADailyRhythm3I’m going to be a bit of a cheat this week as I’ve just started Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and don’t want to flick in case I come across something that gives away the plot so I’m going for first two sentences.

Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)My Teaser

“Joost had two problems: the moon and his moustache.

He was supposed to be making his rounds at the Hoede house, but for the last fifteen minutes, he’d been hovering around the south-east wall of the gardens, trying to think of something romantic to say to Anya”

~ page 3

Have to admit I’m kind of curious about why his moustache is a problem.

Happy reading everyone.

Teaser Tuesday – 17 November 2015

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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.

TeaserTuesday-ADailyRhythm3Last night I started reading Hopeless by Colleen Hoover. I’ve heard a lot of great things about Colleen Hoover but this is the first book by her I’ve gotten round to reading. Only a few chapters in but enjoying it so far. Anyway here’s this week’s teaser.

Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)My Teaser

“I can’t distinguish between butterflies or a stomach virus, but either way I’m not fond of the way that voice penetrates right to the pit of my stomach. I stiffen and slowly turn around, all of a sudden aware that I’m no where near as confident as my past would lead me to believe.”

~ page  28

Happy reading everyone.