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 The Mirage by Matt Ruff. It starts with a twist on recent American history. It’s a little disconcerting, and it promises more plot twists to come!

“On November 9, 2001, Christian Fundamentalists hijacked four commercial passenger jetliners. They crashed two of them into the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry headquarters in the federal district of Riyadh.”

See what I mean? Be sure to check back — I’ll be reviewing this one in February.

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 A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, a terrific read about a truly terrible period in history. It’s interesting to read the nitty-gritty details of what it was like to be living in Paris under the Nazis, and I hope I would have shown the courage that these young women did. This comes from some of the anecdotes about surviving the coldest winter on record in Paris, under occupation by the Germans:

“Though the integration of France into the Nazi war economy had dramatically cut unemployment, the French were beginning to understand that the shortages were the direct result of the enormous booty of clothing, food and raw materials leaving every day for the Reich. The Parisians were now obsessed with food and warmth, lining their clothing with newspapers, putting mustard in their socks and making muffs out of rabbit and cat skins.”

Mustard? In your socks? I assume they mean dry mustard, but still! Doesn’t sound warm to me.

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 The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian. I’d heard some good buzz about this and it’s really an excellent, scary story. Check back soon for my review. In the meantime, check this out:

“The truth was, she wasn’t a Satanist or attracted to most satanic rituals; but she was a bit of a bomb thrower, and she liked the idea that designing her greenhouse in the shape of a pentagram and placing what looked like a stone demon smack in the center would fuel rumors among the sorts of people who were never going to be her friends anyway. Besides, she liked goats and she liked handsome men with their shirts off.”

Well, really — who doesn’t like handsome men with their shirts off? Seems perfectly logical to me! 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!

You’ll notice I have a new Teaser Button — isn’t it fabulous! I stole this from my dear friend Heather over at Book Savvy Babe.

This week, my Teaser is from The Bad Always Die Twice, a fun new mystery novel by Cheryl Crane. Here, Nikki Harper — who works selling real estate to celebrities in Hollywood – describes her working relationship with partner, Jessica Martin:

“One of Jessica’s most endearing qualities was that she wasn’t any more impressed by celebrities than Nikki was. Their only difference was that Nikki had grown up with them and Jessica slept with them.”

Sounds like Jessica is having more fun to me!

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 comes from one of my current books, Other People’s Money by Justin Cartwright. This book came to me by way of LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer program. Sir Harry Trevelyan-Tubal has had a stroke and is no longer the man he once was. His wife, Fleur, has ceded his care to his long-time secretary, Estelle:

“Estelle doesn’t mind feeding him. She seems to think it is her job rather than the nurses’ to wipe his face, as if he notices or appreciates this intimacy. Maybe Estelle has always longed to touch him, and now she is licensed to handle him the way a French housewife handles fruits in the market.”

There is something terribly sad about that. Harry and Fleur’s loss is, in a strange, sad way, Estelle’s gain. It has made me curious to see how things play out between Fleur and Estelle. 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 comes from a book I just finished, A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd. It’s a Bess Crawford mystery, taking place in England during World War I:

“And then out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure in black slip down a service passage, disappearing into the deeper shadows cast by the houses on either side. There would be a stout wooden gate at the end leading into a back garden and another passage to the street beyond. Either a trap — or an escape.”

Who is it and where are they going? Makes me wonder. 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 Blood and Other Cravings, edited by Ellen Datlow. It’s a book of short stories about vampires…sort of. Not exactly typical vampires, but things that live off of other things. Sometimes, they steal your energy, sometimes they steal your will to live. There are some very creepy stories and this is one of my favorites, “X for Demetrious.”

“In this instant Demetrious learned a great lesson: that there is dread at the heart of all things, that fear comes to all men at the end and reclaims them for its own. Birthed in blood and chaos, we struggle a little while till inexorably we are undone, and horror waits panting at both ends of existence.”

Not a very cheerful view of life, is it? But perhaps Demetrious has good reasons for that attitude….

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 The Stranger You Seek. It’s a terrific mystery novel by debut author Amanda Kyle Williams. I was about halfway through the book when I went to Amazon to see when the next installment is coming out. It’s not on Amazon, but I will definitely be pre-ordering it! I love the main character’s sense of humor, like when she’s talking about her birth parents:

“I wasn’t emotionally devastated by the fact that they’d given me up. They did it because they were incapable fo caring for a child. I mean, with the prostitution and stripping and drugs and all, they were really busy.”

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 The Hypnotist by M.J. Rose.  If you missed my guest post from Rose last week, definitely go back and check it out — it’s pretty awesome! And come back on Thursday, when my review goes up.

This week’s Teaser (work has kept me very busy and I haven’t had much time for reading) comes from one of my favorite characters in the novel, Ali Samimi. He works at the Iranian embassy and he really wants to stay in the US:

“He’d started out as an awkward rube when he’d first come to New York three years ago, but the last woman he had bedded had called him debonair. He’d had to look up the word but was inordinately pleased by what it meant.”

I think he’s kind of adorable and I really want him to do the right thing when the time comes.

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 a book I just finished, A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd. The folks at Harper Collins were kind enough to send me another Charles Todd title some time back and I fell in love. I’ve got another one, The Confession that’s nearing the top of my TBR pile.

“And then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure in black slip down a service passage, disappearing into the deeper shadows cast by the houses on either side. There would be a stout wooden gate at the end leading into a back garden, and with luck, another at the bottom of that, giving onto another garden and another passage to the street beyond. Either a trap — or an escape.”

Trap or escape, which will it be? I couldn’t say for sure — you’ll have to read and find out!

What’s teasing YOU this week?