Teaser Tuesdays: Virals

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!



Virals by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe.
Especially if the bullet is coming at you.

~* Page 1

Friday56: House of Leaves

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find any sentence that grabs you.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or if you do not have your own blog you can post on Freda's comment section.
* Post a link along with your post back to Freda's Voice

Closest Book: House of Leaves

Author: by Mark Z. Danielewski

Page 56: At least both he and Karen agree on one thing: they want the children to stay out of the house.

Teaser Tuesdays: Behemoth

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!

Behemoth (Leviathan #2) by Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (Illustrator)

"Reason?" Deryn swallowed. "But what does some newborn beastie have to do with reason?"
"Nothing, of course, as per my grandfather's law: 'No fabricated creature shall show human reason.'"

~* Page 178

Friday56: Pegasus

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find any sentence that grabs you.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or if you do not have your own blog you can post on Freda's comment section.
* Post a link along with your post back to Freda's Voice


Closest Book: Pegasus

Author: Robin McKinley

Page 56: Her heart was beating faster; the pegasi were strange, amazing, almost impossible, entirely unlike anything else in your human life, just by being themselves.

"Waiting On" Wednesday: Trapped

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Trapped by Michael Northrop
Published January 1st 2011

From Goodreads:

The day the blizzard started, no one knew that it was going to keep snowing for a week. That for those in its path, it would become not just a matter of keeping warm, but of staying alive....

Scotty and his friends Pete and Jason are among the last seven kids at their high school waiting to get picked up that day, and they soon realize that no one is coming for them. Still, it doesn't seem so bad to spend the night at school, especially when distractingly hot Krista and Julie are sleeping just down the hall. But then the power goes out, then the heat. The pipes freeze, and the roof shudders. As the days add up, the snow piles higher, and the empty halls grow colder and darker, the mounting pressure forces a devastating decision....

A-Z Wednesday - O

Welcome to A-Z Wednesday!!
To join, here's all you have to do:
Go to your stack of books and find an author whose first or last name starts with the letter of the week.
Post:
1~ a photo of the book
2~ title and synopsis
3~ link (Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc.)
4~ Go to Reading At The Beach and leave your link in the comments.
If you've already reviewed the book, add it or the link to your post.

This week's letter is: "O"

The Inferior by Peadar Ó Guilín



Summary from Amazon:
In this epic story of survival, betrayal, and community, the fittest humans are prized as hunters and for taking care of the Tribe, while those with a number of marks on their Tally sticks, or otherwise deemed useless, are traded for food with other tribes in the region. Stopmouth, a "savage" human with a stutter, is healed by a strange visitor from the Roof following a hunting accident. He and Indrani develop a bond that is scorned by the rest of the Tribe, but is one that will see them through some challenging times as they set out on a journey to try to return Indrani to whence she came. This well-paced fantasy/science fiction blend perfectly introduces community conflict at a base level. Stopmouth and his brother are constantly at odds over their roles in the family and their individual ambition. Power and influence are accepted and controlled in very different ways by these main characters and, from the very first chapters, readers can see that lies and deceit are strong forces on the characters.

WWW Wednesdays: November 17

Hosted by Should Be Reading
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

What are you currently reading?

Pegasus by Robin McKinley

What did you recently finish reading?

Manifest (Mystyx #1) by Artist Arthur

What do you think you’ll read next?

Behemoth by Scott Westerfel

Friday56: The Auctioneer

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find any sentence that grabs you.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or if you do not have your own blog you can post on Freda's comment section.
* Post a link along with your post back to Freda's Voice


Closest Book: The Auctioneer

Author: Joan Samson

Page 56: "Mean he is," she agreed. "Chased his own flesh and blood off the place every one by the time they was fifteen and told them not to come back."

Goodreads:
Published to wide acclaim in 1976, but almost neglected since then, The Auctioneer is a bona fide classic of American literature. The story of John Moore, his wife Mim, and his mother, it is a gripping tale of greed in a small town being quietly overrun by auctioneer Perly Dunsmore. Acclaimed by writers including Stephen King, and an influence on King's Needful Things, The Auctioneer is here reprinted for the first time in thirty years.

Friday56: Outlander

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find any sentence that grabs you.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or if you do not have your own blog you can post on Freda's comment section.
* Post a link along with your post back to Freda's Voice


Closest Book: Outlander
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Page 56 (paperback): "The skin of a lady, I'll swear," he murmured to himself. He leaned forward and sniffed. "And a French scent in your hair."

Teaser Tuesdays: Into the Mist

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!


Into the Mist (Falcon Mercenary Group #1) by Maya Banks

In an automatic gesture, she felt for her knives. Then she reached for her jacket. Though tattered and sporting a torn sleeve, it offered protection and hid the other knife. And she cleaned most of the blood off.

~* Page 164

Pick of the Month - October

After looking over the list of the books I read in October - my top pick is: The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

I love changeling type stories; The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue could almost be the companion piece to this one.
(My favorite is Stolen by Vivian Vande Velde)
The interesting thing about The Replacement is the family and Mackie know he is a replacement and the story relates to how they adjust and what it means to be human.



Summary by Goodreads:
Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.

Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

The Dystopian Reading Challenge is hosted by Bart's Bookshelf
October 1, 2010 through December 19th 2010.

This is book 5/5 in the reading Dystopian challenge:
The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner


Summary from Goodreads:
The Maze was only the beginning...

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more Variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.
In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety... until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.
Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, much of the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated--and with it, order--and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim... and meal.
The Gladers are far from done running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Thomas can only wonder--does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?

I loved The Maze Runner so I was surprised to find I like this one more.

The Scorch Trials starts where The Maze Runner ended and just when Thomas and the Gladers start to think they are safe, more creepy things start happening in a fast-paced and thrilling way.

The new setting brings it own challenges/variables and new characters are introduced that pushed the story further and faster instead of dragging it along.

Books read - October

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman
The Compound by S. A. Godeen
The New World (Chaos Walking prequel novella) by Patrick Ness
The Blending Time by Michael Kinch
The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner
A Crack in the Sky (Greenhouse Chronicles) by Mark Peter Hughes
Cloaked in Red by Vivian Vande Velde
13 to Life (13 to Life, #1) by Shannon Delany
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Crave by Melinda Metz & Laura J. Burns
The Lucifer Code by Charles Brokaw
The Left Hand of God (Thomas Cale #1) by Paul Hoffman
Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
Torment (Fallen, #2) by Lauren Kate
The Valcourt Heiress by Catherine Coulter
Styx's Storm by Lora Leigh
Sphinx's Queen by Esther M. Friesner
Dust by Joan Frances Turner
Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford
Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux by Emily Arnold McCully
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Banished by Sophie Littlefield