Teaser Tuesday | The Trouble With Flirting, Warm Bodies, and Hopeless
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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Franny’s supposed to be working this summer, not flirting. But you can’t blame her when guys like Alex and Harry are around. . . . Franny Pearson never dreamed she’d be attending the prestigious Mansfield Summer Theater Program. And she’s not, exactly. She’s working for her aunt, the resident costume designer. But sewing her fingers to the bone does give her an opportunity to spend time with her crush, Alex Braverman. If only he were as taken with the girl hemming his trousers as he is with his new leading lady. When Harry Cartwright, a notorious flirt, shows more than a friendly interest in Franny, she figures it can’t hurt to have a little fun. But as their breezy romance grows more complicated, can Franny keep pretending that Harry is just a carefree fling? And why is Alex suddenly giving her those deep, meaningful looks? In this charming tale of mixed messages and romantic near-misses, one thing is clear: Flirting might be more trouble than Franny ever expected.
He gathers the bag handles in his fists and curls and lowers his arm a few times. “Look at that? See that? See my guns? Aren’t you impressed?”
“Stop or I’ll faint.”
“Yeah, I have that effect on all the women.” As we move away from the Starbucks… he switches hands and insists I now check out that arm’s bicep muscle. “I’m not a one-arm wonder, Franny. Both sides are equally magnificent. This is what you call fearful symmetry.”
“Why do you ever wear a shirt?” I say.
“For the mystery of it, Franny. For the mystery.”
~p. 158, The Trouble With Flirting by Claire LeZebnik
Oh my word, I love this book so much and had such a hard time deciding on a teaser…so you ended up with several. =)
A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel.
R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.
Not just another zombie novel, Warm Bodies is funny, scary, and deeply moving.
“We grunt and groan, we shrug and nod, and sometimes a few words slip out. It’s not that different from before.
But it does make me sad that we’ve forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn everyone else’s, because I’d like to love them, but I don’t know who they are.”
~p. 4, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
“There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can’t cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.”
~p. 8, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
“This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses. So far my personal record is four rolling syllables before some…thing…jams. And I may be the most loquacious zombie in this airport.”
~p. 10, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
“How long has it been since you…died or whatever?”
I tap a finger against my temple and shake my head.
She looks me over. ”Well, it can’t have been very long. You look pretty good for a corpse.”
I wince again at her language, but I realize she can’t possibly know the sensitive cultural connotations of the word “corpse.”
~p. 43, Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…
That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.
Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.
The word comes to me like it’s always been there, tucked away between ‘like’ and ‘love’ in the dictionary, right where it belongs. “Living,” I say.
The desperation in his eyes eases slightly, and he lets out a short, confused laugh. “What?” He shakes his head, trying to understand my response.
“Live. If you mix the letters up in the words ‘like’ and ‘love,’ you get ‘live.’ You can use that word.”
He laughs again, but this time it’s a laugh of relief. He wraps his arms around me and he kisses me with nothing but a hell of a lot of relief. “I live you, Sky,” he says against my lips. “I live you so much.”
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fun picks today. How did you do that “add to goodreads” thing? that’s cool. kelley—the road goes ever ever on
Thanks, Kelley! =) Just create an “add to goodreads” graphic and insert it where you want it in your post. Then click on the graphic and go into the place where you can edit it’s size and alignment and such. Replace the link to the image with the link to the goodreads page. =) And voila, Add to Goodreads button! Email us if you have trouble. =)
All good teasers. New Follower. Love your blog!
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Yay! Welcome to the blog! Coming over to check yours out now! =)
All of those teasers are forcing me to put those books on my TBR. Thanks for sharing and stopping by The Coffee Pot! =)
=) Yay! Happy to provide TBR additions for you! Thanks for returning the visit!
All great teasers! I’m going to have to check out The Trouble with Flirting, and Warm Bodies (at least before the movie comes out). Thanks for stopping by my blog
Awesome! =) Thanks for stopping by ours as well!