4 Varied Tuesday Teasers--Funny, Scary, Creepy

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 (well, we cheat and choose specific ones)
• 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.   

Karen's:

"I guess we have a visitor again. If it's okay with you, we'll just go on. Chasing a cat around the platform isn't on my order of service today."

From page 149 of The Cat That God Sent by Jim Kraus--Humorous Christian fiction. (My review will be up tomorrow for this one.)

I have two from The Blood of Lambs--A Former Terrorist's Memoir of Death and Redemption by Kamal Saleem with Lynn Vincent--Nonfiction. (It was hard choosing a teaser, there are so many interesting and shocking things and I barely started this one.):

Nearly thirty years before, empowered by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), I had come to America.  From the Koranic teaching of my youth, I knew that by infiltrating the American education system, overrunning its universities and jails, and swarming its poor neighborhoods, my jihadist brothers and I could usher in Umma--one world under Islam.  It would be, as Americans like to say, "a piece of cake."

 From page 7.

In 1993, in a challenge to convert his Christian wife to Islam,Walid studied the Hebrew Scriptures.  Within six months, he decided that everything he had been taught about the Jews was a lie.  

From page 24. 


Gerard's:

Hearing him say her son's name was worse than having Manx's hand on her wrist or blood on her feet.  (Clean blood, she told herself, clean.)  Hearing this man, convicted murderer and child molester, speak of her son made her dizzy, genuinely dizzy, as if she were in a glass elevator rushing quickly into the sky, the world dropping away beneath her.

From page 7 of NOS4A2 by Joe Hill--super natural suspense.


Happy Reading!

"True Legend" by Mike Lupica is more than Basketball

True Legend by Mike Lupica is about a young man who finds that all of life's lessons are not found on a basketball court. The writing is really good and the characters in this book are believable and realistic. Even if you do not like sports books, give this teen one a chance because it is more about life lessons than basketball. I enjoyed it!
(Gerard's review 5++ stars)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!

A Very Good Short Read: "Black Helicopters" by Blythe Woolston

Black Helicopters by Blythe Woolston is a young adult book I enjoyed. When both of Valkyrie's parents pass on, it's time for her to do what she has been trained to do by her dad. The tension builds as it goes back in time and then to real time. This book sucked me in from page one and ends with a great twist. I wanted more pages! It's a real good short read.
(Gerard's review, 5+ stars)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!

Our Favorite Reads For May: Grab Some of These!

Ones We both Liked Very Much:

Dinner With The Smileys by Sarah Smiley (Non-fiction)

Touch and Go by Lisa Garener (thriller/suspense)

Gerard's Best Reads for May:

Frozen in Time by Mitchel Zuckoff (Non-fiction)

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber (Non-fiction)

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (science fiction/YA)

Karen's Best Reads for May:

Anything You Ask by Lynn Kellan (Humorous Romance)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!

A Very Scary Read: "The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder" by Charles Graeber

The Good Nurse—A True Story of Medicine, Madness, Murder by Charles Graeber is a great book! I would class it as a thriller, but it’s non-fiction! Charles Cullen is a male nurse at a hospital where strange events happen on his shift. As you read this book, remember that this is not a novel, but a true story! That’s what makes it so scary! This kept my interest all the way through and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough! I’ll never think of hospitals the same way again—very scary!
(Gerard's review, 5++ stars)

Have you read this one? What did you think of it? If you reviewed this too, feel free to share your link to your review in the comments. Happy Reading!