Teaser Tuesday(5)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB at 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!

"Once again, my breath caught in my lungs. I was sure I would never breathe again. His lips erased all the pain, and instead warmth spread throughout every vein in my body."


Meant to Be by Tiffany King

It's Monday What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by  Book Journey where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wondeful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.



Read:

Last week was a slow week for me because I am moving from one location to another so my week consisted of packing up all my stuff and trying to get everything completed because next week I'll be on vacation for a week :)

Iron Crowned (Dark Swan Series #3) by Richelle Mead



Currently Reading:


Meant To Be  By Tiffany King




Krista Miller feels like she has lived her entire life in a glass box with her every emotion on display. She can’t help feeling like a defect as her sensitivities have made her socially inept and without any real friends; the one exception being the boy that visits her each night in her dreams.

Krista’s emotions are put to the test when a move to California triggers a devastating change to her fantasy world. The nightly comfort that the boy provides has now become a recurring nightmare as he is taken from her by an unseen force.

Struggling to appear normal, Krista enrolls in a new school and finds it to be nothing like she thought. Her new life is sent spiraling out of control from a strange connection with a boy, Mark, who claims to know all her secrets.

As Krista begins to explore the emotions that Mark evokes in her, secrets from their past about their shared connection threatens to separate them just when they have found each other.




Next on my list:


The Soulkeepers by GP Ching




When fifteen-year-old Jacob Lau is pulled from the crumpled remains of his mother's car, no one can explain why he was driving or why the police can't find his mother's body. Made a ward of his uncle and thousands of miles from home, Jacob's life feels out of control.

A beautiful and mysterious neighbor, Dr. Abigail Silva, offers to use her unique abilities to help him find his mom. In exchange, she requires Jacob to train as a Soulkeeper, the biologically gifted warrior she swears he is.

He agrees to her demands, desperate for any clue to the mystery of his mother's disappearance. But soon Jacob finds himself trapped in a web of half-truths, and questions Dr. Silva's motives for helping him.



So what does your week look like? Leave a link to your site and I'll be happy to check it out :)

In My Mailbox (4)

In My Mailbox is hosted weekly by The Story Siren.  We highlight books we have received we have purchased, borrowed, or Won. You can find out more here.

Jenny Alexander has sought refuge from a troubled past on a tiny, verdant island, off the coast of Washington state. Surrounded by the cold water of the Puget Sound, she does her best to raise her girls, innocent Frankie, and thrill-seeking Lilly, in a tight-knit community of eccentrics and dreamers.

The island bursts open each summer with the arrival of actors leading the annual Shakespeare production. A handsome thespian from New York reawakens Jenny to long-buried desires. As the intensity of rehearsals builds toward the live run of The Tempest, a potent mixture of actors, islanders and tourists, besotted by verse and swept up in the romance of the theater, spills the enchantment of the play into the lives of the players.

When Jenny finds her daughters caught up in a "brave new world" of love and heartbreak, she is ultimately thrust into a command performance that will resonate in all their lives.

 Krista Miller feels like she has lived her entire life in a glass box with her every emotion on display. She can’t help feeling like a defect as her sensitivities have made her socially inept and without any real friends; the one exception being the boy that visits her each night in her dreams.

Krista’s emotions are put to the test when a move to California triggers a devastating change to her fantasy world. The nightly comfort that the boy provides has now become a recurring nightmare as he is taken from her by an unseen force.

Struggling to appear normal, Krista enrolls in a new school and finds it to be nothing like she thought. Her new life is sent spiraling out of control from a strange connection with a boy, Mark, who claims to know all her secrets.

As Krista begins to explore the emotions that Mark evokes in her, secrets from their past about their shared connection threatens to separate them just when they have found each other.

So how was your week?

Follow Friday/Blog Hop



TGIF- This week has been crazy. Every Friday Parajunkee host Follow Friday, this is your chance to meet new friends and visit old ones. :)

Today's question is:

How did you come up with your blog name?

 

Sadly, the blog name I wanted was used and I just kind of mix and matched words together until I got one that took. Knowing what I know now I probably would have put more effort in creating a blog name.

Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Crazy for Books. This is also a great way to meet new people and socialize with existing friends.

"Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?"


Usually I only read one book at a time because if I don't I tend to get my stories mixed up especially if it's the same genre. I have on occassion read more than one book at a time, but those scenarios are rare.

So How did you come up with your blog name and Do you read more than one book at a time? Leave comments and links and i'll be happy to take a look at your answers. Hopefully I'm not the only person out there who randomly chose a blog name :)


Happy Friday!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day! In honor of this I wanted to share a few of my favorite movies/songs/book that remind me of Ireland. Maybe one day I'll actually get there :)

Movies:

I love both of these movies.

Author:

Cecelia Ahern-

Band:

Flogging Molly

Does anyone have any special plans for today?

Waiting on Wednesday(4)

Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly meme, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that showcase upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm in Richelle Mead mode. I just recently finished reading her Dark Swan Series, which the fourth highly anticpated book does not come out until January 2012 :(.

But, anyway on to this week's pick. I have chosen Succubus Revealed which is the 6th book in the Georgina Kincaid series by Richelle Mead. If you haven't started this series you definitely should this is the first series I read by Ms. Mead and have been a fan ever since. This is one of her adult series. Btw, did I mention I love Vampire Academy ( I was so Team Adrian) :)



This book will be released at the end of August.


In order not to spoil anything for you I added a synopsis of the first book below:



Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men. Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.
When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?

But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven't stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip and wings. And she can't have a decent date without sucking away part of the guy's life. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore--free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can't.

But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won't help because Georgina's about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny...


Quote from Succubus Blues:

"Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—" He stood up. "Let's dance."


What are you waiting on? Leave links and I'll check it out sometime today. Happy Wednesday!

Teaser Tuesday(4)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB at 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!

"Then he turned slowly toward me until I stared into the face of a man I'd never met, whose face was as familiar as the one I looked at in my own mirror,, even though I only had one black and white photograph of it from a newspaper report of his death."

This is from River Marked (Mercedes Thompson Series) by Patricia Briggs.

This is book 6 in the series, if you haven't already read them you should. The stories are action filled with tons of excitement and maybe a romance or two. You won't be sorry :)

Books in order from book one.

Share your teasers and links below and I'll check out your Teaser Tuesdays!