Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my teaser is from Hollywood Boulevard by Janyce Stefan-Cole. Just getting started on it, so this really is a bit random. Even though I am not really interested in snow right now, I thought this quote was perfect. I know this feeling exactly, when the snow makes you feel distant and disconnected:

 ”We bundled scarves over our coats and went out into a hushed city, an inch already sticking, the sky sprinkling powdery flakes. We were inside a bistro after walking for fifteen minutes; everyone in the bar in good spirits for no better reason than the falling snow, as if we were all stranded in a fort far from the real world.”

Isn’t that a good description of the feeling?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my Teaser is from This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by edited by John Brockman. It’s a collection of essays answering the question, “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?”

This teaser comes from an essay called “The Snuggle for Existence” by Roger Highfield, Editor of New Scientist magazine. It’s about the importance of cooperation as a strategy for success:

“Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good an desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.”

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, I am listening to Olive Kitteridge on audiobook. That makes it a little harder to pull a quote for Teaser Tuesday, but thanks to Amazon Look Inside, I’ve got a little something.

“‘It changed me,’ she wrote, ‘as experiences do. It put all my priorities straight and I have lived every day since then with the deepest gratitude for my family. Nothing matters except family and friends,’ she wrote in her small, neat hand.”

I have a feeling this one is going to be a heartbreaker, but I am really enjoying it. What’s teasing YOU this week?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my Teaser is from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Yeah, I know, everyone else read this last year, but my promised review copy never came, so I didn’t get started right away. It’s a quick little read and perusing the pictures is almost more fun than the story!

“Emma held out a hand and flicker her wrist, but rather than producing a ball of fire, her hand glowed a scintillating blue. The green stars coalesced around it, flashing and whirling, echoing her movements like a school of fish, which, I realized, is just what they were.”

A little snorkeling in the shipwrecks! What’s teasing YOU this week?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, I have a terrific teaser from Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway. Nick’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World is one of the best books I’ve ever read — I can’t tell you how many people I’ve recommended it to — and I couldn’t want to get my hands on this one! It’s fabulous. I’m about half-way through and I am already sad that it’s going to end. The problem I had this week was deciding which teaser to use!

“Between Clighton Street and Blackfriars there is a cul-de-sac which actually isn’t a cul-de-sac. At the very end is a narrow gap and a pathway which leads to the railway line, and immediately on the left as you face the tracks there’s a doorway into the underworld. Through this little door goes Joseph Spork like the White Rabbit, and down a little spiral staircase into the narrow red-brick tunnels of the Tosher’s Beat.”

Okay, doesn’t that make you want to check it out? I know it makes me curious…but if you read on, it’s not as easy as walking through the door!

What’s teasing you this week?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my teaser is from my latest book, No Mark Upon Her by Deborah Crombie. Terrific British detective mystery and there were a dozen great teasers I could have chosen, but I decided on this:

“He didn’t have all the pieces, but he felt the violence building, the hair on the back of his neck rising in atavistic anticipation. This wasn’t over.”

Not specific, but it would certainly get my attention! How about you?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

Today, my teaser is from the very first page of So pretty it hurts by Kate White.  This has proved to be a rather funny little mystery, and a great distraction after a couple of very serious novels. This teaser pretty much sums up the action in the book:

“During a frigid week in early December, I bit off my nose to spite my face because of something the new guy in my life, Beau Regan, did. And I ended up in a big fat mess that involved all sorts of nasty things: a suspicious death, requests for kinky sex, my ass on the line at work, and a showdown with a killer who wanted to make sure I couldn’t tell what I knew.”

Now, that sounds like some fun, doesn’t it? And did I mention that this all takes place at a luxurious hideaway in the mountains, while our feisty heroine is surrounded by models and their rock star boyfriends, celebs and their crazy employees? Yeah…this is a fun one!

What’s teasing YOU this week?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my quote comes from Carry the One by Carol Anshaw. It’s about a group of friends who suffer a terrible tragedy and how it brings them together — and pushes them apart — over time:

“The bikers turned out to be tequila drinkers, bandana wearers, snake keepers. The whole places smelled like the inside of a very bad shoe, a shoe with a piece of cheese in it.”

Oh, I can just smell the funk now! How about you?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, my teaser is from Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham. This is a fabulous mystery so far – I can’t wait to get this post up so I can do some more reading. This is the tough-as-nails female detective, Cray, talking to psychologist Joe O’Loughlin about getting drawn in to her investigation:

“Suck it in, Princess and put on your big-girl pants. You’re playing with the grown-ups now.”

What’s teasing YOU this week?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list!

This week, I’ve got a teaser from my new read, Defending Jacob. This one looks like it’s going to be great, even though I’m not very far along. I had to do some random page-turning to find a good teaser, but this would definitely tempt me — and anyone else who loves a good courtroom drama:

“Your Honor, the Commonwealth is seeking a very high bail: five hundred thousand cash, five million surety. The Commonwealth would argue that, because of the unusual circumstances of his family situation, this defendant poses a particular risk of flight in light of the savagery of the crime, the overwhelming likelihood of conviction and the unusual sophistication of this defendant, who has grown up in a home where criminal law is the family business.”

What is teasing YOU this week?