Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading and it asks us to...

• 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!

Here's my teaser this week:

As it turns out, what we're smelling is my shoe. Or, more to the point, the fecund matter that has attached itself to my shoe.

Goat poop.

Ten Miles Past Normal - Frances O'Roark Dowell pg 1.

Mailbox Monday & What Are You Reading

This is a weekly meme hosted by Library of Clean Reads for the month of February. Join the fun and post what you got in your mailbox last week!

I got a few books this past week:







Madame Tussaud - Michelle Moran (Read it Forward)
















Horns - Joe Hill (TLC book tour)
















The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (bought)















It's Monday What are you reading this week? Hosted by Sheila at One Person's Journey Through A World of Books. This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.

Books I finished in the last week:

Rogue Oracle - Alayna Williams
Hate List - Jennifer Brown
Where She Went - Gayle Forman





Books I am reading this week:

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Books to finish this week:

The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

Rogue Oracle - Blog Tour February 24, 2011

Rogue Oracle (Delphic Oracle #2)- Alayna Williams (Blog Tour)

Product Details

• Pub. Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
• Format: Mass Market Paperback , 368pp
• Sales Rank: 148,017
• ISBN-13: 9781439182819
• ISBN: 1439182817

Synopsis

THE MORE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE, THE MORE THERE MAY BE TO FEAR.

Tara Sheridan is the best criminal profiler around—and the most unconventional. Trained as a forensic psychologist, Tara also specializes in Tarot card reading. But she doesn’t need her divination skills to realize that the new assignment from her friend and sometime lover, Agent Harry Li, is a dangerous proposition in every way.

Former Cold War operatives, all linked to a top-secret operation tracking the disposal of nuclear weapons in Russia, are disappearing. There are no bodies, and no clues to their whereabouts. Harry suspects a conspiracy to sell arms to the highest bidder. The cards—and Tara’s increasingly ominous dreams—suggest something darker. Even as Tara sorts through her feelings for Harry and her fractured relationship with the mysterious order known as Delphi’s Daughters, a killer is growing more ruthless by the day. And a nightmare that began decades ago in Chernobyl will reach a terrifying endgame that not even Tara could have foreseen. . . .

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed this read. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I realized it was a book 2 of a series. I hate to read out of order. But this was for a tour so I did it anyways.

I liked the characters quite a bit. The Steve's had to have been my favorite and I would love to see more of them. Cassie is another of my favorites and I wonder where her story will take. While I enjoyed Tara and Harry, I have the say the ones I mentioned before, stole the story.

The story itself was interesting. Secret agents disappearing, all leading back to the Chernobyl disaster and what might come if they don't stop it. It kept my attention. All in all a good read.

Author's Website: Alayna Williams

Hate List - A Review

Hate List - Jennifer Brown

Product Details

• Pub. Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Format: Paperback , 408pp
• Sales Rank: 9,457
• Age Range: Young Adult

• ISBN-13: 9780316041454
• ISBN: 0316041459

Synopsis

Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.

Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.

My Thoughts:

This book packed a punch. It really did. I was grabbed from page one and it did not let me go until I finished it.

Valerie is an amazing, strong, scared, and scarred teenage girl who's been through hell. Not only does she have to deal with her boyfriend opening fire at their school and shooting her in the process. She is the one left behind to deal with the aftermath. The anger, the fear, the hate, and even the ones who don't blame her as well. That's just the stuff she's dealing with from everyone at school, her parents, the town. But then to add to it she has to deal with her own feelings of fear, guilt, shame, confusion. What an incredibly strong character she really is.

I found myself several times wishing I could reach into the pages and either throttle a character or hug them. Jennifer really brought this story to life and I will definitely be reading more of her books in years to come.

Author's Website: Jennifer Brown