Teaser Tuesday: "Breaking Night" and "You Killed Wesley Payne"

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just do the following:          

• 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can  add the book to their TBR  Lists  if they  like your teaser. 

We have a non-fiction and a YA fiction teaser for you today, check out our giveaway for Gerard's:
Karen's: 

Every night was like this.  While Ma and Daddy injected themselves with cocaine and ran in and out, like a tag team, I stayed close by and shared the night with them.  While Lisa slept in her bed, I had them all to myself; I helped keep them safe.

Taken from p. 55 of Breaking Night--A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey From Homeless To Harvard by Liz Murray

Gerard's: 

Dalton needed to check out the crime scene.  First stop, football field.  The kid followed, plump and sweaty, huffing to catch up.  He held out his knuckles for a bump.  "My name's Mole."

Taken from p. 3 of You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin.  We are giving this one away.  Here is the link to our giveaway where you can find out more about this book.

If you would like to enter a Feb. 5 giveaway for the book I wrote, My Funny Dad, Harry visit Red Pine Mountain and leave a comment on my guest post.

Giveaway: "You Killed Wesley Payne" by Sean Beaudoin

We received an advanced copy of "You Killed Wesley Payne" by Sean Beaudoin and will pass it along to one of our readers who would like to have it.  Here is the summary from the back cover and the book trailer:

You Killed Wesley Payne is a truly original and darkly hilarious update of classic pulp noir, in which hard-boiled seventeen-year-old Dalton Rev transfers to the mean hallways of Salt River High to take on the toughest casde of his life. The question isn't whether Dalton's going to get paid. He always gets paid. Or whether he's gonna get the girl. He always sometimes gets the girl. The real question is whether Dalton Rev can outwit crooked cops and power-hungry cliques in time to solve the mystery of "The Body" before it solves him.

If you would like this teen fiction book, please leave a comment with an email address so we can contact you should you be the winner.  We will pick the winner of this giveaway on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011.

"Up From The Blue" by Susan Henderson

I find it hard to believe that Up From The Blue is Susan Henderson’s first book.  I really liked it!  Up From The Blue is about a Colonel’s daughter who one day finds that her mom is missing.  When she finds her mother, that is when the book really picks up steam.  All the characters are portrayed very well:  the dad, the brother and the mother and daughter.  Up From The Blue is a real page turner!  I’ll be looking for Ms. Henderson’s next work for sure!  I give this 10 stars and definitely recommend it!
(Gerard's review)

Karen read this one too after Gerard finished it and didn't like it near as much as Gerard:
Up From The Blue by Susan Henderson is just a very sad book about a family who is really unconnected with each other.  The girl is 8, the boy is 12 and neither really feels loved.  The dad is a military man who is at his wits end when it comes to helping his wife.  She is depressed all the time and he just hides it from everyone, telling the kids not to talk about her.  It‘s a story of putting on an act and hiding true feelings.  I felt bad for each one in the family.  It reminded me of The Glass Castle except that was non-fiction.  Told from the little girl’s point of view, the reader doesn’t get the full story until the girl does.  Although it is an interesting read, I didn’t care for it because it was just so depressing--no one in the family felt good enough. 
(Karen's review)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it?

Love My Bookplates From Susan Faye!

My Book Stickers That I Won!

I happened to see a giveaway for some cute "This Book Belong To" stickers when visiting 365 Cat Ladies and Friends so decided to enter and won!  I just got these a couple days ago and today chose which books to put them into.  I picked books that I felt I may lend out sometime or that I am sure I will keep and not sell or give away.  Here are the books I put them into:

You can visit Susan Faye's Etsy shop and get some for your books too for just $5.00 or a number of other cool things too!

"Crystal Clear Triumph" by Eric LeMarque

Crystal Clear Triumph by Eric LeMarque is the true story of Eric who dreamed to become a hockey player.  He was also hooked on Meth.  When his dream to be a hockey player died, he turned to snowboarding.  He got stuck on a mountain for six days!  How he survived is an extraordinary tale.  He lost both of his feet.  What he did with the rest of his life is the story of this book.  I won't give it all away, but it is inspirational!  A good quick read.
(Gerard 5/26/09)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it?