Tuesday Teaser: The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

Tuesday Teasers is hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are as follows:


Grab your current read and let the book fall open to a random page. Share two sentences from somewhere on that page and the title of the book that you’re getting the teaser from. Please avoid spoilers! Read the official Tuesday Teaser Rules.






My teaser this week is from The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe. From page 185:

After work she met Dexter at his apartment. She sat on his sofa and allowed him to put a cold drink into her hand, and the entire time she was savoring the last instant of special secrecy before she would share her news.

Mailbox Monday August 29, 2011

In August Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Staci at Life in the Thumb. Head on over to Staci's blog to add your link!

I'm having a few technical difficulties with my blog post for Monday because of a power outage due to the torrential rain and wind caused by Hurricane Irene. I'm using an iPad which I don't find all that easy to use when posting pics and other beyond-the-basic computer activity. However, I'm going to try my best to do my Mailbox Monday post despite my unease with this darn iPad.





Last week I received a book in the series The Joy of Spooking called Fiendish Deeds. Written by P.J. Bracegirdle, the synopsis of this book for kids (young and old) reads:

Joy Wells is a proud resident of Spooking, the terrible town at the top of the hideous hill. At the bottom of the hill is Darlington, a plastic "paradise" where Joy and her brother go to school. When the mayor of Darlington announces that a water park is going to be constructed over the Spooking bog, Joy is horrified. She decides that she has to save the mysterious bog and the endangered species in it-even though it seems someone is determined to stop her!

Tuesday Teaser: Cold Vengeance

Tuesday Teasers is hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are as follows:


Grab your current read and let the book fall open to a random page. Share two sentences from somewhere on that page and the title of the book that you’re getting the teaser from. Please avoid spoilers! Read the official Tuesday Teaser Rules.




My teaser is from Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. From page 84:

After a moment I realized I wasn't sinking farther-that my feet had come to rest on something only a few feet beneath the surface. Soemthing soft and buoyant, a carcass I believe.

Waiting on Wednesday: The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.




The Virgin Cure by the author of The Birth House, Ami McKay, will be published in Canada on October 25th. The following description of the novel is from the author's website:

“I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.” So begins The Virgin Cure, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. As a young child, Moth’s father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her forever. The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again.

These betrayals lead Moth to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, filled with house-thieves, pickpockets, beggars, sideshow freaks and prostitutes, where eventually she meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel simply known as “The Infant School.” Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions who are “willing and clean,” and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth.

Through the friendship of Dr. Sadie, a female physician, Moth learns to question and observe the world around her, where her new friends are falling prey to the myth of the “virgin cure”–that deflowering a “fresh maid” can heal the incurable and tainted. She knows the law will not protect her, that polite society ignores her, and still she dreams of answering to no one but herself. There’s a high price for such independence, though, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street.

Tuesday Teaser: I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

Tuesday Teasers is hosted by Should Be Reading. The rules are as follows:


Grab your current read and let the book fall open to a random page. Share two sentences from somewhere on that page and the title of the book that you’re getting the teaser from. Please avoid spoilers! Read the official Tuesday Teaser Rules.




Published by Harper Collins Canada, my teaser this week is from I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. From page 22:

'After she leaves we immediately start unpacking the truck. Depending on how quickly we leave a place, we either travel very lightly-usually Henri's extra computers and equipment, which he uses to set up a security perimeter and search the web for news and events that might be related to us.'

Mailbox Monday August 15, 2011

In August Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Staci at Life in the Thumb. Head on over to Staci's blog to add your link!




Last week I received A Single Shot by Matthew F. Jones. Originally published in 1996, this novel is being re-released by Mulholland Books (an imprint of Little, Brown and Company) on September 19th. From the publisher's website the description of this book reads:

After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.

Following the bloody trail, he comes upon a shocking scene: an illegal, deep woods campground filled with drugs, bundles of cash and the body of a dead young woman, killed by Moon’s stray bullet.

Faced with an ultimate dilemma, Moon has to make a choice: does he take the money and ignore his responsibility for the girl’s death? Or confess?

But before he has a chance to decide, Moon finds himself on the run, pursued by those who think the money is theirs. Men who don’t care about right and wrong and who want only one thing from John Moon: his body, face down in a ditch.

Matthew F. Jones’ A Single Shot is a rare, visionary thriller reminiscent of the work of Tom Franklin, Ron Rash, Daniel Woodrell, and Cormac McCarthy.

Mailbox Monday August 8, 2011

In August Mailbox Monday is being hosted by Staci at Life in the Thumb. Head on over to Staci's blog to add your link!





Last week I received Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child courtesy of Hachette Book Group. From the authors' website the description reads:

Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple.

As he stalks his wife's betrayers-a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.

Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous than he could have ever imagined-and everything he's believed, everything he's trusted, everything he's understood . . . may be a horrific lie.