Teaser Tuesday, 17th Edition

I'm sure at this point it won't surprise anyone that Teaser Tuesday is late yet again. I might as well just give up and call it Teaser Wednesday. This week I actually do have an excuse though. My computer is getting fixed (again) because last time it got fixed, they put in a logic board with some problem or other and I had to take it in again. Anyway, now I'm sharing a computer with my mom (thanks, mom - love you :D) and I haven't brought the Teaser Tuesday books out of my room, where I work when I'm on my own computer. (By the way, those of you who also read my other blog, The Bookbird and the Wordgirl, it also means that I don't have my writing on this computer. So you'll have to be a bit more patient for Chapter Two.) Anyway, here is this week's somewhat belated but very fun Teaser Tuesday. I've been reading some really good books this week.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 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 teasers!

I am doing a slightly different version of Teaser Tuesday. Since I go through books so quickly, I'm going to put a quote from any book I've read in the past week.

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"She wanted to set the knobs to FitzFaeren and go slither into the cupboard downstairs to watch the dancers. She wanted to look for her grandfather." - Dandelion Fire, by N.D. Wilson

"His face was as bleak and yellowish and wrinkled as the moors. 'Listen, Christopher,' he said, ' those folk at Chrestomanci Castle are not going to be pleased to find you've been here doing this.'" - The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne Jones

"'What you need to know may be very different from what you want to know. Didn't your unfortunate accident teach you that?'" - The Throne of Fire, by Rick Riordan

"Whatever the reason, the argument raged. Anxious Antonio talked of going to England and cosulting someone named Chrestomanci about it." - The Magicans of Caprona, by Diana Wynne Jones

"'They ruined you for a normal life, but that's not your fault. There was nothing you could do about it.'" - The False Princess, by Eilis O'Neal

2 Cover Reveals

This week, 2 of my favorite authors revealed covers for upcoming books. I wanted to share them because I'm just so excited.

First is the cover of The Death Cure, third book of the Maze Runner Trilogy, by the wonderful (and hilarious) James Dashner:

The Death Cure will be published on October 11. 

It looks like it's going to be awesome.

The first two books in the series (both fantastic):

And second is Midnight in Austenland, the second Austenland book by the amazing Shannon Hale:

(isn't it beautiful?)

Midnight in Austenland will be published January of 2012.

There are a lot of great books due to come out in the fall. I'll write a post talking about the ones I'm most excited about. These two are at the top of the list (although Midnight in Austenland is not coming out until January - I'm excited anyway)

By the way, I started a new story on my second blog, The Bookbird and the Wordgirl. Click here and check it out.

Giant Group Review Introduction

I have a lot of books in my room (but not an Alot of books - see here). Many of my friends say I have too many books. I almost - but not quite - agree. Anyway, I figured that if I kept going on my present strategy of reviewing maybe 1 book for every 3-5 that I read, I'm never going to get to talk about some of the books that I really love because I won't want to write a whole review about them. So I thought,  What if I did a group review for a ton of books at a time? I was hesitant to give in to this idea, since it would obviously be a ton of work, since I have several hundred books.  But yesterday (or maybe it was the day before), a friend jokingly accused me of keeping how-to-read books in my room, and that changed my mind. I am now embarking on a quest to, if not review, write a few comments about every single book in my room. And I will be doing it by shelves. It will be done in 20 parts, one every few days. I'm going to start with part one on Monday.

I'm probably not going to post tomorrow, Friday or this weekend so I can prep and also because it's going to make me even busier than I already am with March Merriness and schoolwork as well as posts for The Bookbird and the WordGirl every other day. By the way, please go read our recent posts on Bookbird-Wordgirl. The story is getting really fun to write and hopefully really fun to read as well. Also, please vote in the PBM poll. I'm getting tired of asking, and I'm sure you're getting tired of reading it. But if you do vote, I'd be so very happy.

Thanks,

A Project

This is going to be a quick post, but I wanted to say that I started a creative writing blog with my friend The Politick. We're writing a story together, switching off every few paragraphs. Let me say now that I have absolutely no idea where the story is going to go (that's part of the fun). The new blog is called The Bookbird and the Word Girl. We just started writing the story yesterday, so you should scroll down to part 1 (by The Politick) before you read part 2 (by me). New posts will be coming every day, so keep checking back!