Teaser Tuesday 5/5/15: “The Line (Witching Savannah #1)”

So I did ultimately end up binning the book from last week’s Teaser Tuesday, and a couple of subsequent books as well that were pretty ho-hum from the start, but we finally have a winner: The Line (Witching Savannah #1), by J.D. Horn.

Not a Stargate.
Not a Stargate (or is it?)

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Teaser Tuesday 4/28/15: “All Saints’ Secrets”

So at the moment I’m sort of between books — I’ve started and tossed three or four free books I got from BookBub that I didn’t care for. I just started one now called All Saints’ Secrets, by Nichole Loughan. I’m still not far enough into it to know if I’m going to continue reading (my Kindle says 4%, which is not very many pages in on a 145-page book), and I got it so long ago that I don’t even remember what it’s about, but I do know I like the cover:

Don't blink.
Don’t blink.

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27 8×10 Color Glossy Pictures With Circles And Arrows And A Paragraph On The Back Of Each One

Or at least, one 6×9 glossy book cover and one 6×9 matte book cover, neither with circles or arrows.

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Matte CreateSpace cover on the left, glossy Lulu cover on the right

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Teaser Tuesday 12/30/2014: “Fer-de-Lance”

So this week I’m reading–or rather, re-reading–a book, Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, that’s printed on actual paper. Aged, yellowing paper, even!  This is the 50th anniversary edition, published in 1984, which means that if it were published now it would be the 80th anniversary edition.  Does anybody else feel old?

"If I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key."
“If I kill all the golfers, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.”

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Teaser Tuesday 12/16/2014: “Gone Girl

So this week, having finished A Tale of Two Cities:

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.*

I have now moved on to Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, thereby reducing the “twenty-one people who haven’t read it” to twenty.

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Exit, stage right.

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Teaser Tuesday 11/25/2014: “A Tale of Two Cities”

It was the best of times … it was the worst of times … it was time to read A Tale of Two Cities, that Dickensian classic, which I somehow never picked up until it appeared for free on the BookBub mailing list.

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”

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Teaser Tuesday 11/4/2014: “Lore of The Witch World”

So this week, having ditched two other free books — one just for being poorly written, another for having a Too Dumb To Live protagonist (seriously, after the second or third time you ignore explicit instructions to stay on the path and not to talk to the monsters, you deserve whatever you get) — I’ve picked up Lore of the Witch World, an anthology of stories plus a novelette by Andre Norton.

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Despite her fur-lined boots and gloves, Babette still felt cold. She couldn’t quite figure out why.

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Teaser Tuesday 10/28/2014: “The Sekhmet Bed”

So at the moment I’m reading The Sekhmet Bed, by Lavender Ironside, which may or may not be a pseudonym, but is an Awesome McCoolname nevertheless.

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Confined to a wheelchair after being paralyzed by a Death-Eater attack, Lavender Brown Ironside continues to fight for Hogwarts, for justice, and to get Ron Weasley to pay attention to her

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Teaser (And Review!) Tuesday 10/7/2014

Well, one review anyway, at flayrah.com, from April 2014, of Dragon Stones:

Dragon Stones Review

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Teaser Tuesday 9/30/2014: “The Coldest Girl In Coldtown”

So this week I was reading The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black, in which vampirism has spiraled into a sort of pandemic due to one vampire’s decision to start infecting (but not killing) people right and left. Needless to say this quickly results in the near-breakdown of society, until the government herds both the vampires and infected humans into walled cities, known as Coldtowns, that are sort of like leper colonies, only with fangs. Oh, and YouTube feeds.

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