Teaser Tuesday: A Midnight Dreary by John Evangelist Walsh

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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This week's teasers come from Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by John Evangelist Walsh. This is a non-fiction, but it reads like a novel and so far, I find it fascinating. :D

"When her disbelieving eyes first fell on the Whig's stark notice, Elmira could not have guessed it, but at that moment, Poe had been in his grave one entire day. In the Presbyterian Cemetery of Baltimore, at four o'clock on the afternoon of October 8th, a dark, raw, dismally wet day, the earth closed over all that was mortal of the man many people in sincere admiration had begun to simply call The Raven." (pg. 35)

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Teaser Tuesday: Towers of Midnight

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. We just started it, which means our read-along is nearly finished! We've been at it for nearly two years now!

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Perrin looked down at Aram's body. "I should have taken that fool sword from him the moment he picked it up. I should have sent him back to his family." 

Does not a cub deserve his fangs? Hopper asked, genuinely confused. Why would you pull them? 

"It is a thing of men," Perrin said. 

Things of two-legs, of men. Always, it is a thing of men to you. What of things of wolves?

"I am not a wolf."

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Teaser Tuesday: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
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So I just started a Harry Potter read-along, courtesy of Book Journey. Go HERE if you want to join us. I haven'tread the HP books in years, so I'm super-excited! Here are some teasers from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone:

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"As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their pockets weighed down with rock cakes they'd been too polite to refuse, Harry thought that none of the lessons he'd had to far had given him as much to think about as tea with Hagrid. Had Hagrid collected that package just in time? Where was it now? And did Hagrid know something about Snape that he didn't want to tell?" (pg. 142)

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Teaser Tuesday: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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"The carpet glittered with shards of glass, the coffee table shattered. End tables were on their sides, books slid across the floor like a card trick. Even the heavy antique ottoman was belly-up, it's four tiny feet in the air like something dead. In the middle of the mess was a pair of good sharp scissors." (pg. 23-24)

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Teaser Tuesday: Mojave Green

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Today's teasers are from Mojave Green, the latest masterpiece from The Brothers' Washburn!

"Fighting an overwhelming sense of disbelief, Dylan realized it was not a rock. Turning to run, he opened his mouth to yell for help. He never got the chance to yell, let alone run. Everything went dark." (Loc 289, Kindle ARC)

(Come back tomorrow for a post by the authors!)

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Teaser Tuesday: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from Robert Galbraith's (J.K. Rowling's) The Cuckoo's Calling.

"Like Wardle, he had needed no uniform; he had been constantly cloaked in officaldom and prestige. Now, he was a limping man in a creased shirt, trading on old acquaintances, trying to do deals with policemen who would once have been glad to take his calls." (pg. 43-44)

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Teaser Tuesday: Success Principles by Jack Canfield

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
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Today's teasers come from The Success Principles by Jack Canfield. I've actually been reading this book since the beginning of the year. My plan was to read one chapter per day. I would probably have only read 20 chapters a month, and it's a thick book. It would have been at least three months. But life's been hectic and I'm only now nearing the end. That said, it's one of the best, most inspiring, most profound books you could ever read. So many great lessons!

"I believe you have inside you a core genius--some one thing that you love to do and do so well that you hardly feel like charging people for it. And if you could make money doing it, you'd make it your lifetime's work. Successful people believe this, too. That's why they put their core genius first. They focus on it--and delegate everything else to other people on their team." (pg. 277)

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Teaser Tuesday: Outpost by Ann Aguirre

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from Outpost, book 2 of Ann Aguirre's Razorland series.

"The surviving growers rallied enough to go about their business, at least, but they did it with a mournful air. It seemed to me that seeds planted with bloody fingers should yield a bitter fruit, but I didn't express my reservations." (pg. 69)

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Teaser Tuesday: L.A. Noir

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from L.A. Noir by John Buntin. It's about Mickey Cohen and L.A. as it was in the twenties and thirties. I got this when it was on sale on Amazon, as I'm interested in True Crime and write crime fiction myself, I thought I'd give it a shot. So far, it's terribly interesting!

"Nights were exciting and frequently rewarding, both financially and psychologically. Armed robbery, Mickey found, did wonders for his self-esteem." (Pg. 46, Kindle Edition)

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Teaser Tuesday: Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
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Today's teasers come from Enclave by Ann Aguirre. This is one that's been on my TBR list for a long time, and I finally got a copy for Christmas, but am just now getting around to it.

Nimble looked thoughtful. "What do you think a wedding is?" 

"Some kind of party? Maybe like we have after naming day?" I did wonder why the paper had been sealed in a box full of sweet-smelling powder, but I had long since accepted that I'd never understand everything. In the enclave, it mattered more that we performed well in our allotted roles. Life didn't permit extensive curiosity; there was no time for it. (Pg. 25, Kindle edition)

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Teaser Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars

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This week's teasers come from The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene. So glad to finally be reading this!

"Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal." (pg. 33, Kindle edition)

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Teaser Tuesday: With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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I'm finally on the last book of Souls Screamers, With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent. Yea! Here are some teasers:

Tod opened his mouth, and I took the first sip before he could offer to drink it for me. To test it on himself. The last think I needed was for him to develop an irrational envy. The only person he could possibly be jealous of was Nash, and it had taken me forever to get the two of them back on speaking terms. Backward momentum was not okay. 

"Yuck!" I made a face and wished for a cookie to rid my mouth of the foul film. "Envy tastes bitter." 

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Teaser Tuesday: With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
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This week's teasers come from Before I Wake, book 6 of Soul Screamers  by Rachel Vincent.

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"Should I just make myself at home, like company?" Thane started toward the living room, but Nash stepped into his path. 

"No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our differences by seeing who can break more of your bones." 

Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" 

Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." 

Tod nodded. "Good call."

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Teaser Tuesday: Never to Sleep by Rachel Vincent

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from book 5.5 (Never to Sleep) of Soul Screamers.

Maybe we were both crazy. Maybe we were really sharing a delusion in some real-world psych ward. Maybe my ex-boyfriend was in the room next door. Maybe Kaylee was the sanest person I knew. 

I squeezed my eyes shut and shook my head--that was the scariest thought I'd ever had. 

"I'm a necromancer," Luca said, and I opened my eyes to look at him. "But that doesn't mean what most people think it means. 

"Well, I'm not most people. I have no idea what that means."

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Teaser Tuesday: If I Die (Soul Screamers #5) by Rachel Vincent

Before we get to this week's teasers, here are the answers to yesterday's historical quiz:

A. Albert Einstein   B. Martin Luther King, Jr.   C. Amelia Earhart   D. Napoleon Bonaparte   E. Mother Theresa   F. J.R.R. Tolkien

A few guessed Napoleon--guess the outfit gave it away, huh?--and someone got Martin Luther King as well. (Great job to everyone who hazarded guesses, by the way!) The one that really floors me is Mother Teresa. She must be seven years old there. Crazy!

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
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This week's teasers come from If I Die, book 5 of Soul Screamers, by Rachel Vincent. 

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"Promise me, Dad. Promise you'll leave this alone."  

"You know I can't--" 

"Promise," I insisted, and his stoic expression crumpled beneath a burden of pain and responsibility I couldn't imagine. 

"Fine, I promise," he said at last, and I let him fold me into a hug.  

As he squeezed me, his heart beating against my ear, I knew only two things for sure: I was going to die, and my father was lying.

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Teaser Tuesday: My Soul to Steal

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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I'm still making my way through this series, more slowly than I would like since I've got so many other projects going on, but I'm still loving it. Right now I'm on book 4, My Soul to Steal. 

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"And sad. Makes me feel bad about not bothering with homework for most of last semester. Do you think he was grading midterms when he died?" 

I frowned when I realized she was serious. "Emma, your test did not give him a stroke." 

"I think you underestimate my incomprehension of sign, cosign, and tangent," she said...

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Teaser Tuesday: Soul Screamers

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come form Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series. I'm working my way through it, currently on book 3, My Soul to Keep.

"Why are you trying to brush this off?" This isn't like having a drink at a party or lighting up behind the shop building. We're talking about humans inhaling the toxic life force sucked out of a demon from another world." Quite possibly the weirdest sentence I'd ever said aloud... "And according to your mom, if they survive the addiction--and that's a big if--their scrambled brains'll make Ozzy Osbourne look rational and coherent." (Kindle format, pg. 37)

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Teaser Tuesday: The Book Thief

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Today's teasers come from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It's kind of weird reading this book because the main character shares my name--same spelling and everything--and my name is unique enough that I don't run into it every often. It's kind of freaking me out. :D

"For now, Rudy and Liesel made their way onto Himmel Street in the rain. He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without words. 

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain."

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Teaser Tuesday: Cinderskella by Amie and Bethany Borst

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

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This week's teasers come from Cinderskella, the debut middle grade novel of my friend and fellow JFP author, Amie Borst. A cool fact: it was co-written by her teenage daughter, Bethany.

Not the vines! Last time I'd seen them they tried to pull me into the ground. I let out a scream. "I do believe in spooks--I mean magic. I do believe in magic. I do, I do, I do." 

"You all right, sugah?" Ms. Wanda extended her hand, reaching for me. Except it was all bone. There was no skin. Her hand was a boney, white skeleton. A bony, white skeleton hand holding a bouquet of roses. 

"AAAHH!" I shrieked, closing my eyes tight.

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Teaser Tuesday: Heart of Darkenss

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This is one of my favorite classic novels and I try to read it every year. It's not particularly Halloween-y, but it has it's own kind of creepiness, so I always think October is a great time to read it. :D

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