Teaser Tuesday: These Broken Stars by Amy Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one. 

Me and Ebony from Paperbacks & Protagonists are currently doing a readalong with These Broken Stars by Amy Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. We're a bit over 200 pages in, and I'm really enjoying it!

Publisher/Year: Disney Hyperion / December 10, 2013

Genres: YA Sci-fi

Format: Hardcover

Source: Birthday gift

Summary: It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. 

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. 

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

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Teaser Tuesday: Gears of Wonderland by Jason G. Anderson

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading a steampunk retelling of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is called Gears of Wonderland by Jason G. Anderson- and I'm really enjoying it!

Publisher/Year: CreateSpace / October 27, 2011

Genres: YA Sci-fi / Fantasy

Format: Ebook

Source: Author through bookblogging 

Summary: James Riggs lives a normal life with a mind-numbing job, an overbearing boss, and a demanding fiancee. Then he witnesses the murder of his best friend. Saved from the murderer by a strange man in a white suit, James is cast down a hole and into a world he always believed was a kid's story. Wonderland. But things have changed since Alice's visit. The Knave of Hearts has seized the Heart throne, conquered all of Wonderland with his steam-powered technological marvels, and rules the land with an iron fist. Aided by the Mad Hatter's daughter, James journeys to discover why he has been brought to Wonderland and how the tattoo on his arm could be the key to Wonderland's salvation-or its destruction.

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Teaser Tuesday: This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one. This time though, I will only share 1 teaser, but it's going to be a longer one. 

I am currently reading This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl (and John Green, her parents and some other people) I am halfway through and really enjoying it. I am taking my time with it and reading it slowly since I am gonna cry if I read too much at a time. 

Publisher/Year: Dutton Juvenile / January 28, 2014

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography / Autobiography

Format: Hardcover

Source: Book Depository

Summary: A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

When I read this poem by Esther, I immediatly marked the page (with a post it of course) I think it's beautiful and just shows how amazing Esther is with words!

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Teaser Tuesday: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, I am not that far in, about 130 pages. I think the POV is interesting and definitely different from what I'm used to. 

Publisher/Year: Alfred A. Knopf / 2005

Genres: YA Historical Fiction

Format: Paperback

Source: Bought from the Book Depository

Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

If you want you can read a sample for free on amazon!

I think the first teaser is beautiful! I love this quote and I think I will keep it in mind! The second teaser shows one of my favorite relationships in the book so far, I love the connection between Hans and Liesel - he is the perfect foster father for her and I think he is the sweetest man and he really loves Liesel!

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Teaser Tuesday: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am just finished The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith, but since I am only reading Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu and The Medea Complex by Rachel Roberts (which I shared teasers of last Tuesday) I thought I would take the easy way out and share teasers from this one. I absolutely loved it! and the review is going up tomorrow!

Publisher/Year: Poppy / January 2, 2012

Genres: YA Contemporary

Format: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Summary: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.

A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?

Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it. 

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Teaser Tuesday: The Medea Complex by Rachel Roberts

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading The Medea Complex which I received from the author recently, I am about a third of the way through, and so far I like it. I have some problems with it, but I like the setting a whole lot! And it is very intriguing! By the way; isn't that cover gorgeous? 

Publisher/Year: Createspace / October 31, 2013

Genres: Historical Fiction, Thriller

Format: Ebook

Source: Received from author

Summary: ****BASED ON A TRUE STORY***

1885. Anne Stanbury - Committed to a lunatic asylum, having been deemed insane and therefore unfit to stand trial for the crime of which she is indicted. But is all as it seems?
Edgar Stanbury - the grieving husband and father who is torn between helping his confined wife recover her sanity, and seeking revenge on the woman who ruined his life.
Dr George Savage - the well respected psychiatrist, and chief medical officer of Bethlem Royal Hospital. Ultimately, he holds Anne's future wholly in his hands. 
The Medea Complex tells the story of a misunderstood woman suffering from insanity in an era when mental illnesses' were all too often misdiagnosed and mistreated. A deep and riveting psychological thriller set within an historical context, packed full of twists and turns, The Medea Complex explores the nature of the human psyche: what possesses us, drives us, and how love, passion, and hope for the future can drive us to insanity.

If you want, you can read an excerpt on Goodreads, on the authors website or on Amazon.  

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Teaser Tuesday: Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, I know this is not the ideal book to use, because it is the last in a series, but since I am not currently reading anything else, I wanted to use Mockingjay. I have about 50 pages left and I love it as much as I did the first time around!

Publisher/Year: Scholastic / 

Genres: YA Dystopia

Format: Paperback

Source: Gifted

Summary: This time there won't be a summary, since this book is the last in a trilogy, so it contains massive spoilers. 

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Teaser Tuesday: Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio and I am about 100 pages in. I like it so far, but it is also quite sad...

Publisher/Year: Randon House / March 1, 2012 (first published January 1, 2012)

Genres: Middle Grade, Contemporary

Format: Hardcover

Source: Library

Summary: WONDER is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, Auggie is being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. The thing is, Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

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Teaser Tuesday: White Space (Dark Passages #1) by Ilsa J. Bick

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading White Space (Dark Passages #1) by Ilsa J. Bick. I am about 40% in and so far I am enjoying it.. But it is not as good as I thought - but that may change!

Publisher/Year: Egmont USA / February 11, 2014

Genres: YA Fantasy

Format: e-Arc 

Source: Edelweiss

Summary: Ilsa Bick’s WHITE SPACE, pitched as The Matrix meets Inkheart, about a seventeen-year-old girl who jumps between the lines of books and into the white space where realities are created and destroyed – but who may herself be nothing more than a character written into being from an alternative universe, to Greg Ferguson at Egmont, in a two-book deal, by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (NA).

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Top Ten Tuesday + Teaser Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is as usual hosted by the girls at The Broke and the Bookish. The theme this Tuesday is the top ten 2014 debuts we are excited for, but since I am only excited for 1, I decided to change it! So my top ten will be the books I am looking forward to reading this year! 

1. The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) by Kelley Armstrong

2. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

3. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin 

4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

5. Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Taherah Mafi

6. Emma by Jane Austen

7. Deception Point by Dan Brown

8. Shattered (Slated #3) by Teri Terry

9. Splintered by A.G. Howard

10. Unbound (The Legion#2) by Kami Garcia (review of Unbreakable (The Legion#1) here)

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently reading Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott, which is a very short read, but still deep, emotional and thoughtprovoking. This book is about a girl that was kidnapped 5 years ago, and now she has to find a new little girl for her kidnapper.

"I look wrong. I look dead. I'm not though. I'm only partway there, a living dead girl. I have been for five years."

"Get up. Those were the first words I ever heard. Open my eyes, see a girl, black and blue all over, dried blood along her thighs"

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Top Ten Tuesday + Teaser Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is as usual hosted by the girls at The Broke and the Bookish. This Tuesday it is all about our resolutions for 2014 - I have chosen to only do bookish, since I have quite a few of them. 

The first one is to read 50 books - whether it will be ebooks or physical copies don't matter, as long as they are books. Graphic novels, short stories, novellas and such do not count towards this one. 

I do not read that many classics, so I want to read a few this year - at least one of them will probably be by 

Austen...

I want to read some of the books I already own, since I got nearly 20 books for Christmas, I have a lot unread books on my shelves and there is some packages in the mail for me as well. 

There is an exception for this one, if the book is in a series, then I will not review it until I have finished the series, and then I will do a series review instead. 

Since I have a great local library I figured it was time to use it a bit more - and also spend a little less on books, since I want to buy some new stuff for my room and maybe some new clothes. And this way it will not do any harm, since I still get to read all the books I want - it is just free instead. 

Since I always tend to read YA contemporary or horror books, I want to read something else. I really like reading fantasy - I just don't do it very often.. But I will chance that! I just got the first 3 books in the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, and that is fantasy! 

I really like read-a-thons, whether it is weeklong, 3 days or 24 hours - it is just a ton of fun. And since I know there is a read-a-thon in January, April, May & August - I have a great selection, and I already know I will participating in the one in January. 

When I discovered Netgalley, I went a little crazy. I have 7 left, so it will not be that big a challenge - but I will complete it!

I want to make a "favorite book tubers" series, maybe a post each month for 3 months or a "favorite book bloggers" series. I have a few ideas. 

I love reading and I love to write, so a dream of mine has always been to write a book. I will not set that as a resolution though. I just want to write a story, whether it be 5 or 50 pages - as long as I write something I am proud of. - I could actually also turn that into a mini-series!, that would be interesting... Let me know if you think turning my story into a mini-series so you all can read it, is a good idea!

The last one is, that I want to re-read some books, sometime this week or the next there will be a post with the bunch of books I want to re-read, stay tuned for that!

Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Want to join? All you have to do is grab your current read, flip open to a random page and share a non-spoiler teaser. Easy, right? Then just write it in the comments or make your own post and put the link in the comments. - But I like to share 2 teasers instead of one.

I am currently re-reading Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley, I read this during October and November with my sister, but I never really paid much attention to the stories or made a review - but that will change now!

These teasers will be a bit different because of the way the book is written. Every page is a new story, so instead of 2 teasers you get 2 actual stories from the book. How about that?

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