"The Two Deaths Of Daniel Hayes" by Marcus Sakey

WOW! The Two Deaths Of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey had me from page 1. Here is the premise: a man wakes up alone on the beach with only a BMW car and his registration, but is it his car and is the name of the registration his? He doesn't know! Then he finds out the cops and a killer are after him but doesn't know why. His wife that he may have killed reveals herself to be alive and well.

This book was almost impossible to put down. The plot is really good! I enjoyed it and the way it ended very much!
(Gerard's review)
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"Crossing lines" by Paul Volponi is Thought Provoking

"Crossing Lines" by Paul Volponi is about accepting people for who they are and taking a stand against your friends if they are hurting someone. Alan, president of the fashion club, wore lipstick and dresses to school. No wonder the other boys teased him! The girls, however, helped dress him up and gave him perfume. Adonis found himself embarrassed that his sister hung around with Alan and even had him come over to his house. Adonis was on the football team and his teammates were his friends. Adonis struggled with who he really was. Should he go along with his friends who teased Alan even though it was wrong or accept Alan for who is is and impress the girl he liked who was in the fashion club with his sister and Alan?

Live and let live is pretty much the message in this book. This is a thought-provoking teen book. I did not like Alan. I liked Adonis and thought he handled things fairly well. I recommend this for teens.  "How do you decide when to stand by and when to take a stand?"

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"Bottom of the 33rd" by Dan Barry

WOW! Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry is so good! It is the true story of a minor league baseball game that went 33 innings, starting on a Saturday and finishing on Easter Sunday morning. It lasted 8 hours and 25 minutes. I enjoyed how the author went into detail on some of the players' lives and careers. It even got into the radio announcers, a bat boy and the few fans who stayed the whole game! To say I enjoyed this would be an understatement—I LOVED IT!

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"The Bond" by Wayne Pacelle

Gerard and Abby

The Bond by Wayne Pacelle is an excellent non-fiction book about our bond with animals. Here are some things I discovered from reading this book that I think are amazing: (1) Indians had dogs as pets; (2) Chimps have better memories than humans; (3) Four dolphins developed their own act with no help from humans. I particularly liked the chapters on Michael Vick and Hurricane Katrina. This is a really good read,pick it up and enjoy!

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Tuesday Teaser: "The Bond"-"Bottom of the 33rd"-"Crossing Lines"

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.   

Gerard's:
A mother gorilla, Binti Jua, with a baby on her back, was the first to reach the boy.  She seemed to have a purpose in mind.

From page 56 of The Bond--our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle

"Give Howie a call down there and we'll count you when you call in.  See how many people we have still with us on this Easter Sunday morning, listening to Rochester Red Wing baseball here on XPXN."

In other words:  Is anyone out there?

From page 154 of  The Bottom of the 33rd:  Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game by Dan Barry


Karen's:

"It's just a personal decision. Accept it and move on." All I could think in my head was, Leave it to a hippie with a ponytail to stick up for a homo wearing lipstick.

From pg. 103 of Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi

Our reviews of these will be posted starting tomorrow. Have you read any of these? What did you think of it?

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