Shut Up & Read

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly Meme hosted by  The Purple Booker   where you share two “teaser” sentences from your current read. Find out how you can participate  Here! "I define me. No event or person does this. I define me. I decide who I am and how I’m going to behave, and I choose to be better. To look more carefully, to trudge deeper. To think about other people’s pasts and not judge someone for doing or handling something differently than I would. To understand my limitations, my shortcomings—that is my growth edge." Title:  Life Will Be the Death of Me:...and you too! Author:  Chelsea Handler Genre: Nonfiction/Autobiography/Memoir In a haze of vape smoke on a rare windy night in L.A. in the fall of 2016, Chelsea Handler daydreams about what life will be like with a woman in the White House. And then Donald Trump happens. In a torpor of despair, she decides that she’s had enough of the privileged bubble she’s lived in—a bubble w...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly Meme hosted by   A Daily Rhythm   where you share two “teaser” sentences from your current read. Find out how you can participate Here! "You know it's not going to be a fun party when a serial killer answers the door.  Of course, I'd been assuming that anyway.  Crashing a vampire ball to which you've been specifically uninvited pretty much ensures that the evening will suck" Paperback, pg 341 Title:  Hunt the Moon (Cassandra Palmer #5) Author:  Karen Chance Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you’d think would buy a girl a little time off. But it doesn’t work that way when your new job description is Pythia—the world’s chief clairvoyant. Cassie is busier than ever, trying to learn about her power, preparing for her upcoming coronation, and figuring out her relationship with the enigmatic sexy master vampire, Mircea. But someone doesn’t want...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly Meme hosted by   A Daily Rhythm   where you share two “teaser” sentences from your current read. Find out how you can participate Here! "It was the first time I'd heard the roar of a Wall Street boardroom, which sounded like the roar of a mob.  It was a sound I'd never forget, a sound that would change my life forever.  It was the sound of young men engulfed by greed and ambition, pitching their hearts and souls out to wealthy business owners across America." Kindle, location 2% Title:  The Wolf of Wall Street Author:  Jordan Belfort Genre:  Nonfiction, Biography By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him kin...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly Meme hosted by   Should Be Reading!   where you share two “teaser” sentences from your current read. Find out how you can participate Here! “I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.” Title:   Guilty Pleasures Series:   Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1 Author:   Laurell K. Hamilton Genre: Urban Fantasy   Paperback , 355 pages   Published August 3rd 2004 by Berkley Trade Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law—as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires and Anita agrees—with a bit of vampiric arm-twisting—to help figure out who and why. Trust is a luxury Anita can't afford when he...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly Meme hosted by   Should Be Reading!   where you share two “teaser” sentences from your current read. Find out how you can participate Here! The man in black smiled. "Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?" "I thought we had been." But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. "Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!” Title:   The Gunslinger Series:  The Dark Tower #1 Author:   Stephen King Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be hi...