Teaser Tuesday: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.  This week my teaser is from the short story Z. Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers included in the collection titled St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell:

"Emma and I are curled together in the basket of the Thomas Edison Insomnia Balloon, our breath coming in soft quick bursts.  I am stroking Emma's cheek.  I am spooning amber gobs of soporific dough into Emma's open mouth, cadged from Zorba's medicinal larder in anticipation of just such an occassion." ---pg. 49 

Teaser Tuesday: The Last Werewolf

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.  This week my teaser is from The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan:

"Mailer famously labelled writing the spooky art.  He was right.  There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo!  Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other place will do." 
--pgs. 47-48

Teaser Tuesday: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

This week my teaser is from The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente:

"She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life.  She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch.  Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up.  September never spoke to the dog again--on principle." -- pg. 6

Teaser Tuesday: Doc

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

This week, my teaser is from Doc by Mary Doria Russell:
 
"'Blow to the head,' he said. 'Ante-mortem, in my judgment.'  Morg was going to ask Doc what he meant by that part about his auntie, but Sheriff Masterson wasn't willing to look ignorant." -- pg. 43

Teaser Tuesday: Queen of Kings

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

This week, my teaser is from the dark and sinister Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley:

 "She looked down at the knife in her hand, at her blood already staining the blade.  She felt the power in the room crackling in the air.  She had not yet finished the spell, but it was begun.  There was no turning back." -- pg. 21

Teaser Tuesday: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

This week, my teaser is from Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan:

"When I was little, my dad used to tell me 'Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.'  This seemed like a reasonably astute observation to me when I was eight, but it turns out to be incorrect on a few levels." -- pg. 3

I just had to share the opening bit because it's so much fun (although the book thus far has also been exceedingly fun).  Don't you want to find out why this maxim doesn't hold true for the narrator? You hope it has nothing to do with nose-picking - and thankfully, it does not.    

Happy reading folks!

Teaser Tuesday: Heads You Lose

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

My teaser from Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward is from the email correspondence sandwiched in between each of the chapters.  While essentially this is a whodunit murder mystery (albeit an unconventional one), a lot of the most interesting and amusing moments come from the banter between the co-authors (who happen to be ex-lovers):

"Thank you for your generous offer of help.  But keep in mind that it's still early.  Try to be patient.  I'm reminded of all the weak lukewarm tea you've served me because you couldn't wait for the water to boil." pg. 44

Teaser Tuesday: Caleb's Crossing

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

My teaser from Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks:

"Who are we, really?  Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath?  Do we make ourselves, by the choices we ourselves make?  Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?" -- page 57.

Teaser Tuesday: The Sisters Brothers

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you share a random snippet of your latest book.

My teaser from The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt:

"I awoke at dawn with a nagging pain in my head, not so much brandy-sickness as general fatigue, though the drinking had not helped the situation.  I dunked my face in the water basin and brushed my teeth, standing beside an open window to feel the breeze against my skull.  It was cool out but the air was enveloped in warmth; here was the first taste of spring, which brought me a satisfaction, a sense of rightness and organization.  I crossed the room to check on Charlie's progress against the day, which I found to be poorer than my own." --- page 54