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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! •  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! My teaser Tuesday is  The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan "The two groups stand face-to-face, mirror images of one another distorted by a gulf of two decades, each feeling superior to their time warped counterpart for some reasons only the older group can fathom. The current students see the pasty alumni and think poor, sad, balding sacks, trying to relive their long-gone youth." 

Title:   The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series) by Jasper Fforde Publisher: Penguin Books 375 Pages Genre: Fiction Synopsis:  BookWorld literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. Review:  Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series is one of the most literary, witty, funny and entertaining series I have read.  I love how he weaves literary context and subtext into the plot making books literally come alive. Thursday has retreated to t

Title:  The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Torro & Chuck Hogan Publisher:  William Morrow Paperbacks 480 pages Genre: Horror Synopsis:  The vampiric virus unleashed in  The Strain  has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Center for Disease Control’s team—leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master’s horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for total control. Caught between these warring forces, humans—powerless and vulnerable—are no longer the consumers, but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves from the invading evil. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been turned by the Master, and now she stalks the city, in the darkness, looking for her chance to reclaim Zack, Eph’s young son. With the future of

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! •  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!   My teaser Tuesday is from:  The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series) by Jasper Fforde "Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations. All the boring day to day mundanities that we conduct in the real world get in the way of narrative flow and are thus generally avoided."

Title:   Walking Disaster: A Novel by Jamie McGuire Publisher: Atria 448 pages Genre: Romance I received an advanced e-copy of this book through netgalley.com - it is currently available in book stores.  Synopsis:  Can you love someone too much? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder. In  Walking Disaster , the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees. Every story has two sides. In  Beautiful Disaster , Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes. Review: Travis Maddox is a player.  He goes through women like tissue, and makes no excuses about it.  When he meets Abby he knows she is something special, there is just something different about her. I honestly can't remember the first book of this series but it doesn't matter. Seeing Travis torn apart by emotions he has never

Title:   Love Water Memory by Jennie Shortridge Publisher: Gallery Books 336 pages Genre: Fiction I received this book through Netgalley.com it will be published April 2, 2013  Synopsis: Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can’t answer that question after she comes to, confused and up to her knees in the chilly San Francisco Bay. Back home in Seattle, she adjusts to life with amnesia, growing unsettled by the clues she finds to the selfish, carefully guarded person she used to be. Will she ever fall in love with her handsome, kindhearted fiancé, Grady? Can he devote himself to the vulnerable, easygoing Lucie 2.0, who is so unlike her controlling former self? When Lucie learns that Grady has been hiding some very painful secrets that could change the course of their relationship, she musters the courage to search for the shocking, long-repressed childhood memories that will finally set her free. Review: This was a great book and one I didn't want to end.  I wanted t

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along! •  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! My teaser Tuesday is from:  The Fall (The Strain Trilogy) by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan "His greatest fear, which he dared share with no one, was that the battle, begun so long ago, was already lost. That this was all an endgame, that humanity's king was already in check, yet stubbornly playing out its few remaining moves upon the global chessboard."

Title:   The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller (Charlie Parker Mysteries) by John Connolly Publisher: Pocket Books 472 pages Genre: Noir Mystery Synopsis:  There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud. Here is one of those truths: after three hours, the abduction of a child is routinely treated as a homicide. When a girl disappears from a small Maine town, her neighbor—a recluse named Randall Haight—starts receiving anonymous letters that contain tormenting references to a different teenage girl, murdered long ago. For many years, Randall has kept a secret: when he was fourteen, he was convicted of killing that girl. Now, his former life has returned to haunt him, and he hires private detective Charlie Parker to make it go away. But in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, where too many of the living are hiding secrets, the past cannot be dismissed so easily. As Parker unravels a twisted, violent history involving a doomed mobster