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Tuesday Teaser - tempt us with your current read!
My teaser is from
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell:It’s no wonder Danes are so happy. They have an obscenely good quality of life. Yes, it’s expensive here. But it’s Denmark – it’s worth it. I don’t mind paying more for a coffee here because I know that it means the person serving me doesn’t a) hate me or b) have a crappy life. Everyone is paid a decent wage, everyone is looked after, and everyone pays their taxes, just as I pay mine. And if we all have marginally less money to buy more stuff that we don’t really need anyway as a result, well I’m starting to think it’s a deal worth making.
I am really enjoying my bookie time in Denmark - this is non-fiction - a memoir.
Today my teaser comes from: 
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe main character, Nina, has just lost her job as a librarian; she has the germ of an idea that is bringing her back to life, giving her hope. The first step has resulted her being on a bus heading to Scotland.
“One moment she would look up from her book to see a gentle brown heath, the golden light playing through the heather; the next she looked up in time to see an osprey dive across the road toward a lock, which made her start; then, as the crested the next mountain, a ray of sunshine came out and she put her book down altogether”
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A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari GentillSet in Sydney around 1932...
Just started
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride. This teaser is from the opening scene where the police have just taken down a would be rapist using PC Jackie Watson as bait:PC Jackie Watson forced the man over onto his face, cuffing his hands behind his back. He groaned and whimpered. Jackie smiled. "Serves you right, you dirty little bastard..." She glanced up at Rennie. "Anyone looking?" He said no, so she kicked him in the ribs. "That's for Christine, Laura, Gail, Sarah, Jennifer, Joanne and Sandra."
"Jesus Jackie!" Rennie grabbed her before she could do it again.
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Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.”
― Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn
Brenda wrote: "Go Jackie!!"I just love Jackie!
Phrynne wrote: "“No. Haven’t you been listening?” Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothin..."
Hehe! We've probably all asked that of our hapless males at some stage. I love to see the look of wild panic in their eyes while they search for an answer!
Is Tuesday again so time for a tease.My teaser is from
The Last Train by Sue Lawrence. I only grabbed it as I left the house this morning - so my teaser is the opening paragraph:...The storm raged on. In the pitch black, the thunder cracked as a roaring gale whipped through the narrow wynds and filthy closes of Dundee’s tenements...
(A wynd is a narrow alley – Scottish term)
I just bought this book last week Sally so I'll be interested to see what you think of it. My family come from the area around Dundee and I was born in a small town on the mouth of the Tay. We later moved to England but I spent most of my childhood summers at my grandmas's house overlooking the Tay and heard stories about the disaster.
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A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simenon
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Dead Lions by Mick Herron
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"There is a certain immaturity in taking pleasure at seeing the terror in the eyes of a Mercedes driver. But parts of us are forever immature. I can name my bits."Black Tide by Peter Temple
Phrynne wrote: "Yes. Couldn't stop at one and none of these are in my challenges for February so I have to squeeze them in:)"Is it a terrible burden, Phrynne? ;)
"TERMS & CONDITIONS OF TRAGEDYIf some strange and terrible thing happens to you - that's tragedy
If some strange and terrible thing happens to someone else - that's just entertainment"
from Terms & Conditions by Robert Glancy
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Is it a terrible burden, Phrynne? ;)"
Just give me a few more days and I would read all five books straight through!!!
Phrynne wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "Yes. Couldn't stop at one and none of these are in my challenges for February so I have to squeeze them in:)"Is it a terrible burden, Phrynne? ;)"
Just give me a..."
Sounds like a good plan Phrynne!!
From The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa:We cats get all limp and squishy when we have catnip; for humans wine seems to do the trick.
Carolyn wrote: "From The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa:We cats get all limp and squishy when we have catnip; for humans wine seems to do the trick."
LOL This is such a fantastic book, Carolyn!
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We cats get all limp and squishy when we have catnip; for humans wine seems to do the trick."
In Sally Berneathy's Death by Chocolate series, the MC has a cat who goes all limp and squishy over catnip too! I'd never heard of it until that series :)
Brenda wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "From The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa:We cats get all limp and squishy when we have catnip; for humans wine seems to do the trick."
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Really Brenda? You've never heard of catnip?
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Ah, that make sense that you wouldn't as dogs are not usually catnip connoisseurs! Supposedly only 60% of cats like catnip. In my house 100% (seven of seven ) of mine go nuts over it then "get all limp and squishy!"
My teaser is from
Storm Clouds by Bronwyn Parry - the second book in the Goodabri mystery series:...he'd never been at risk of falling for her. Just as well, since Nick had come on the scene and he'd have made formidable competition, for all that he seemed civilised and gentlemanly in his tuxedo. Never underestimate Nick:that was the lesson Simon had learned the first time they trained together on the dojo mats as the Strathnairn Police Youth Club, when Nick had him floored in seconds despite a leg injury...
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The Secret Vineyard by Loretta HillOnly just started :)
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Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Just started Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser, so this is from Chapt 1, where a family of three is on holiday in Miami.Baffled, she walked into the combined living and sleeping area, and it was the same. Her things were just as she'd left them. But all traces of her husband and son were gone. As if they'd never been there at all. As if they'd been figments of her imagination all along.
But then, Lily was not entirely what she seemed. Beneath the good manners and ladylike presence was a person of strength, a person who knew her own mind and was prepared to fight for what she believed in. She did not understand, then, how monstrous a fight it would prove to bePage 177 of Tower of Thorns by Juliet Marillier AA, as it turns out.
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After Sundown by Suzanne Brandyn
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From
The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend – YA Fantasy…They weren’t chasing us, they were chasing you. And they weren’t chasing you. They were hunting you. They hunt all the cursed children. That’s how cursed children die…
Also from
by Jessica Townsend (what a fun book!)...she felt something warm, wet, and sandpapery lick the entire right side of her face. She sniffled again, and Fen’s big gray head rubbed her shoulder affectionately.
“Thanks, Fen,” Morrigan said quietly. She heard Fenestra padding softly to the door. “Fen?”
“Mmm?” “Your saliva smells like sardines.”
“Yeah, well. I’m a cat.”
“Now my face smells like sardines.”
“I don’t care. I’m a cat."
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A Place to Remember by Jenn J. McLeod
I thought our chances of going unnoticed were slim. I was with a two-hundred-pound black woman wearing a size two knock-your-eyes-out tube of red spandex that barely covered her ass. Her hair was blond. Her cleavage was comparable to the Grand Canyon. Her nipples were practically punching holes in the spandex fabric.Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich
Brenda wrote: "LOL!! One book I'm destined to re-read I think! Brings back great memories reading your teasers Sally and Carolyn :)"Still reading, and loving it, apparently 8 publishing houses fought over the rights - she is contracted for 3 but has 6 planned - also one of the studios in Hollywood has bought the movie rights
Marianne wrote: "I thought our chances of going unnoticed were slim. I was with a two-hundred-pound black woman wearing a size two knock-your-eyes-out tube of red spandex that barely covered her ass. Her hair was b..."LOL - love Lou Lou! I have the next book in my hot little hand and earmarked to read later this year when we go on holidays (date still to be set)
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Still reading, and loving it, apparently 8 publishing houses fo..."
I saw that before I'd even read it - she's had a brilliant start!
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