Teaser Tuesdays - Dear Mr. Potter

Teaser Tuesdays is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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!

It's been a while since I've done this!  This quote is from Dear Mr. Potter.  It's a book filled with letters that Harry Potter fans wrote to Harry.  It was compiled and edited by Lily Zalon.

"I was only doing what millions of other eleven year olds were doing--waiting for my Hogwarts letter.  I still can't believe it never came." - Sabrina F., page 127

Teaser Tuesdays - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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!

I'm trying to get a ton of books read right now, but I decided to share a teaser from one of the summer reading books I'm reading for school.  Brave New World really creeps me out, but I'm finding it really interesting, even if the future it's set in is a little (or a lot) scary.  Here it is:

"Outside, in the garden, it was playtime.  Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs." - Page 43 of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Teaser Tuesdays - April 26th, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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!

"Space exploration can be seen as a continuation of humanity's need to explore, to push the limits of the frontier.  With future population pressures and the speedy consumption of natural resources, space exploration and colonization may one day become a necessity." page 18 of Space Exploration for Dummies by Cynthia Phillips, PhD and Shana Priwer

I know it may not sound like an interesting book to some people, but I've always loved learning about space.

Teaser Tuesdays - The Sacred Oath by D.C. Grace

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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!

"I could hear Dasan and Jake, rushing now to my aid, but suddenly the world got larger, and I seemed to be falling away, shrinking down into blackness.  The world was devoid of sound, and everything grew hazy." - page 36 of The Sacred Oath by D.C. Grace

Teaser Tuesdays - The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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.

"There were plenty of observers in the meetinghouse who heard him defend my honor.  He who defends a witch..." - page 204 of The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner

Teaser Tuesdays - Nerve by Taylor Clark

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's what you do:

•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!

I'm still reading Nerve (so little free time), so here's another teaser from it:



"In the numbers and logic round, though, Ogas was in rare form. When the announcer asked 'What does x equal in this equation: 3x + 10 = 2x + 50,' Ogas shot out the correct answer (forty) almost instantly, while Rutter, a self-admitted math weakling, struggled horribly." - page 161 of Nerve by Taylor Clark

Teaser Tuesdays - March 15th, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  This is what you have to do:

•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!

My teaser is:

"The military calls it a resistance-training laboratory, which is essentially a euphemism for 'torture center.'  For those three long weeks, trainees endure the psychological and physical abuse they might recieve as prisoners of war, complete with interrogations, forced isolation, malicious guards, even 'advanced techniques' like waterboarding." - Nerve:  Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool by Taylor Clark

Teaser Tuesdays - March 8th, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  Here's how it works:

•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!

"Eighty years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt told a nervous nation, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,' but it turns out that this isn't quite right.  Our problem is almost never 'fear itself' but the way we relate to that fear - by avoiding, withdrawing, seeking control, worrying, or falling victim to the mistaken belief that things will only be okay after we've annihilated all anxiety." - pg. 15 of Nerve by Taylor Clark

(I hope the formatting and everything turns out okay in this post.  It's set to publish at a certain time since I'll be at work when you're reading this, but I wanted it up sooner.)

Teaser Tuesday - March 1st/2nd, 2011

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.  (Again, sorry it's a day late.)

You pick up the book you're currently reading, open to a random page, and post two random sentences.  (No spoilers!)

I'm currently reading Bogus to Bubbly: A Complete Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.  It's a guide to the world Westerfeld created in the Uglies books.

"That's right.  In many beautiful people, phi can be found in the ratio between the width and the height of the head." - pg. 84