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, I’ve got 2 teasers for you! The first is from my February HOT READ, Working Out the Kinks, by Angela Sargenti. This was a fun, raunchy little read, and how can you resist a book that starts like this:

“Dear Diary,

Today I had my first threesome.”

You just know that’s going to be a fun read, right? (Warning: it is definitely for the Over-21 Crowd only!)

Next, I’m reading In Search of the Rose Notes by Emily Arsenault. Early on, there is a scene where poor Nora has walked home from school in the pouring rain and her boots are ruined and she’s all twisted up in knots and this just reminded me so much of being a freshman and all that horror:

“The tears weren’t for the tights or the boots or the geometry homework I didn’t know how to do, but for the four high-school years ahead of me. It still surprises me to think of how hard I cried that day, when I was too young and unimaginative to conceive of how miserable those years would actually turn out to be.”

Yeah. That was my freshman year, alright.

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 trying to re-start a book that I began reading a while ago. I set it down and didn’t feel motivated to pick it back up…but for a while now, I’ve been able to feel it on the shelf, waiting for me to come back to it. So this seems like a good time to give it another try.

The book is This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park, set in post-war South Korea. It just wasn’t what I was in the mood for when I started it, but hopefully, I’ll have better luck this time:

“When you let me be your father and let me worry about you, care for you and even suffer for you, you’re not doing a favor to yourself, you’re doing a favor to me. When you need me, I am alive.”

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!

Today’s Teaser really is random, as I finished The Mirage last night and I won’t really start Raylan by Elmore Leonard until I sit down at the breakfast table this morning. Still, I need something for you here and a random flip through the pages found this little gem:

“Coover, you throw a dead rat at my car. What’re you trying to tell me?”

Now, don’t you just wonder how that conversation got started?

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 Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die. There are some really interesting stories in here, but this teaser really stood out:

“It’s like finding your neighbors’ secret sex tapes. You’re curious as hell to see them, but as soon as you hit play, you know you shouldn’t have.”

How true! Be careful what you look at — there are things that you cannot UNsee!

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 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?