Teaser Tuesday - "Jackie Disaster"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"My job was to make bad news go away, which in the age of the fabled spin doctor, was thought to be eminently doable with the right trick. To pull off disappearing acts, I needed to prove that the allegations against my corporate clients were false and that something other than justice motivated the charge. "
pg. 4, Jackie Disaster, Eric Dezenhall

A very detailed, but fictional, account of a corporate clean-up of humongous proportions involving a famous and very rich domestic diva, mob connections, corporate secrets and a good PR man who really has to dig deep on this one. Set in Southern New Jersey, I could identify with the locations and understand the Phlersey dialect (a mix of Philadelphia and South Jersey). I do believe the story runs a bit heavy in dialogue, not a favorite technique of mine. All in all, though, a good tale!

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Prime Cut"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"Like a fudge souffle, life can collapse. You think you have it all together - fine melted chocolate, clouds of egg white, hints of sugar and vanilla - and then bam.There's a reason things fall apart, my husband would say. But of course Tom would say that. He's a cop."
pg. 3, Prime Cut, Diane Mott Davidson

Yep, I'm back into the culinary mysteries again. This one is another in Diane's Goldy Schulz series. Just started it tonight so there's not much more I can say at the moment.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Bubbles All The Way"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"To think my career at the News-Times had been done in by hair extensions. Not by all the bigwig steel lawyers who had tried to cut me at the knees, but by latex and hair, the death knell rung in the women's room of a Masonic temple."
pg. 281, Bubbles All The Way, Sarah Strohmeyer

Picture Jamie Pressley's character on My Name is Earl as a hairdresser turned newspaper reporter who likes to investigate murders in her spare time (and on company time when possible) and you've got Bubbles Yablonsky. There are quite a few books in the Bubbles series. Who would've thought there was so much crime in the quiet Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania?!?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Poisoned Tarts"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"She wouldn't be the first wife to put an end to a cheating husband's philandering in a violent way. Although a stake through the heart was a pretty strong statement, even for a scorned woman, Savannah couldn't imagine a big hunky guy like Dante just sitting calmly by and allowing a woman half his size to drive a wooden spike into his chest."
pg. 184, Poisoned Tarts, G.A. McKevett.

This is a new author for me. It's also noted as "A Savannah Reid mystery", one of a series involving former policed detective turned P.I., Savannah Reid. I haven't figured out the connection of the title to the story yet, the "tarts" haven't put in an appearance at this point and I'm better than halfway through. This is not one of my normal culinary mysteries although it appears all of Ms. Mckevett's titles have food involved in some way.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Delicious"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"Still, he needed her help. Oh, yeah, that part was very cool. While they'd been married the message had been she wasn't good enough. Now he wanted her to save the day...or the restaurant, in this case. While she planned to enjoy every second of making him beg."
pg. 11, Delicious, Susan Mallery

If you were a fan of Fern Michael's family sagas in her Vegas, Texas and Kentucky series, you're sure to enjoy the Buchanan family's trials and tribulations! This is the first of that series.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Grand Avenue"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"It was in this park - the Grand Parkette, as the town had christened the tiny triangle of land, unaware of the inherent irony - that we first met almost a quarter of a century ago, four grown women making a beeline for three children's swings, knowing the loser would be relegated to the sandbox, her disappointed youngster loudly wailing her displeasure for the rest of the world to hear. Not the first time a mother has failed to live up to her daughter's expectations. Certainly not the last."
pg. 3, Grand Avenue, Joy Fielding

This is the saga of four women raising children of like ages in a tight knit community -sort of shades of Desperate Housewives. If you're a fan of the TV show, you'll probably enjoy this book.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

"LOST" - An unexpected rerun! andTeaser Tuesday - "Calamity Jayne" - Take 2!!

We missed LOST last week, so for the sake of continuity, we quickly cleared the dinner dishes tonight, pulled last week's episode up on the computer and got all caught up. All right! We were ready in plenty of time. Refreshed our drinks, made a potty run and settled in for a new piece of the puzzle only to find it was a rerun!! We were really disappointed.

The story line is confusing enough without throwing us into a flashback that is a double-flashback from several weeks ago. WE've said several times this season that if we hadn't been watching from the beginning, we would never have stuck with it this year as it gets more and more convoluted.

Is it becoming any clearer to any of you?

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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!

** Okay, I admit it. I'm still reading the same book as last week. It IS a quick, easy read but I've been busy and just couldn't find time to finish it yet. Only a chapter or two to go. So, just in case last week's tease didn't grab you, I'm giving you another push for it. Honest, I would normally run through this one in a day or two!

Here are my teasers for today:

"So far, I had a jailed drug dealer-turned-snitch, a possible set-up of his attorney, the murder of his attorney, the murder of the snitch, and a payoff of some sort. Just what that added up to, I didn't know, but I was more determined than ever to find out."
pg. 215, Calamity Jayne, Kathleen Bacus

Even further into the book, C.J. (Calamity) still reminds me of our "blue-eyed blonde ditz" to the point where it makes me laugh from a memory spurred by the tale. ("D" - I still love you!!)

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "Calamity Jayne"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"A stitch appeared in my left side, but trooper that I am, I ignored it. The vivid mental image of the stiff in my trunk loomed rather large in the motivation department, and provided more than sufficient incentive for me to keep motoring down that country road; shin splints, blisters and hyperventilation notwithstanding."
pg. 22, Calamity Jayne, Kathleen Bacus

This is a new author for me. I just started reading this today so there' not much more I can say at this point other than the lead character reminds me of a certain "blue-eyed blonde ditz" whom I fear is closely related to me. Some incidents in the story have brought back memories and lots of laughs.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday - "The Nosy Neighbor"

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!

Here are my teasers for today:

"The moment the door closed behind the federal agents, Lucy locked it and slumped against it. She was definitely in the tall grass now, and the view ahead was not to her liking."
pg. 134, The Nosy Neighbor, Fern Michaels

Fern has long been one of my favorite authors. I find her stories flow so well that I have trouble putting the book down. Most go fairly quickly for me.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Teaser Tuesday : "Name Dropping"

We're approaching the season to get together that stack of park and beach reads. You know, those books you want to drag with you for afternoons in the park or lazy days lying in the sun on the sand or at the pool.

So, encouraged by Audrey over at Audrey's Country Crafts, and since I seem to be reading at least a book a week these days, I'm participating in Teaser Tuesday. TT is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. This is my first week. Hope you find it of some interest.

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 what you share doesn't give too much away ! You don't want to ruin the book for others !)

**Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers !

MY TEASERS:

"It was not simply that it was a shock; it was that it was the height of irony. After I had received phone calls and letters and flowers that were meant for the other Nancy Stern, the murder, it turned out, was meant for me."

pg. 224, Name Dropping, Jane Heller

If you are joining Teaser Tuesday, don't forget to go to Should Be Reading to add your link.