Friday56: The Secret Cave

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* 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) in the comments section of Storytime with Tonya and Friends' blog.
* Post a link along with your post back to Tonya and Friends.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


Closest Book: The Secret Cave: Discovering Lascaux
Author: by Emily Arnold McCully
Page 56, sentence 5: (since the closest book has only around 40 pages - here is the last sentence.)
The cave had changed their lives forever.

WWW Wednesdays (October 27)

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?

The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner #2) by James Dashner

What did you recently finish reading?

Brain Jack by Brian Falkner

What do you think you’ll read next?

Glimmerglass by Jenna Black

"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Serpent's Coil

"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:

Prophecy of Days Book #2: The Serpent's Coil
by Christy Raedeke
Published: July, 2011

Summary of PROPHECY OF DAYS, BOOK ONE:


THE DAYKEEPER’S GRIMOIRE is the story of Caity Mac Fireland, a girl from San Francisco whose parents drag her to an isle off the coast of Scotland to manage some family property. Caity finds that a Mayan relic is concealed there, intentionally left centuries ago by Mayan Daykeepers in an attempt to keep their profound knowledge about the year 2012 alive into the current era.

As she delves into this world of secret knowledge, Caity is helped along by a visiting family friend and Feng Shui master, Uncle Li; a Mayan elder named Bolon; and Mr. Papers, her pet monkey that communicates through origami. A handsome Scottish lad gets pulled into the intrigue, as do several other people with questionable motives and loyalties. Caity must weave together a tapestry of information in order to make her radical discovery, a mystery protected by an elite coterie of power-brokers who influence world events. Caity’s twenty-first century mind is put to the test as she tries to uncover the answer to an ancient riddle while trying to outwit this powerful group that will stop at nothing to control the secret, and her.

La Femme Readers: Random Magic Halloween Tour Prizes

In celebration of Sasha Soren's, Random Magic Halloween Tour and Blog Hop, she is kindly giving away not one, but two prizes!
Enter HERE to win:

First Random Magic Halloween Tour Prize
*Gift-wrapped first edition, Random Magic
*Autographed copy
*First edition print
*Pretty and personalized gift-wrapping
(if you win this prize, please let La Femme Readers know your favorite color!)
*Random Magic postcards (2)
*Bookmark and other goodies
*Thank you note from Sasha

Contest Details:
-One person will win prizes stated above.
-This contest is INTERNATIONAL.
-Deadline will be on November 2, 2010 at midnight EST time.

Second Random Magic Halloween Tour Prize:
Madame Alexander Doll

Contest Details:
-One person will win doll pictured above.
-This contest is for US residents only.
-Deadline will be on November 2, 2010 at midnight EST time.

Teaser Tuesdays: Brain Jack

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!

Brain Jack by Brian Falkner


Right now, as you read this prologue, I am sifting through the contents of your computer. Yes, your computer. You. The one holding the book.


~* Page 1

Friday56: Mackenzie's Mountain

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* 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) in the comments section of Storytime with Tonya and Friends' blog.
* Post a link along with your post back to Tonya and Friends.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.


Closest Book: Mackenzie's Mountain
Author: Linda Howard
Page 56, sentence 5:
Wolf made a sound that was almost a growl, but Mary stared at him until he jerked the money from his wallet and threw it on the counter.

"Waiting On" Wednesday: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

"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:
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
Published: October 26th 2010

From Amazon:
Dash and Lily, 16, find themselves on their own in Manhattan at Christmas. Dash is alone by choice–he's told each of his divorced parents that he's spending the holiday with the other, leaving them both to take vacations out of town. Lily's parents are taking the honeymoon they couldn't afford when they got married. They think that Lily is in the capable hands of her older brother, but he's less interested in her than in his new boyfriend, and then he gets sick and spends most of the holiday in bed. He does, however, start in motion the activity that is central to the story. It involves a red Moleskine notebook with a list of literary clues that Lily leaves in the stacks at the Strand bookstore. Bookish and erudite Dash finds it and is intrigued enough to follow Lily's lead and leave some clues of his own. The dares in the book's title refer to innocent things such as going to various crowded places like Macy's and FAO Schwartz to pick up messages. As the dares go on, the teens reveal more and more about themselves in the pages of the notebook, until they finally meet under the worst possible circumstances.