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!
It’s all about supply and demand when a high school deals with the sudden exodus of male students. The boy recession has hit Julius P. Heil High, and the remaining boys find that their stock is on the rise: With little competition, even the most unlikely guys have a good chance at making the team and getting the girl. Guitar-strumming, class-skipping Hunter Fahrenbach never wanted to be a hot commodity, but the popular girls can’t help but notice his unconventional good looks. With a little work, he might even by boyfriend material. But for down-to-earth Kelly Robbins, the boy recession is causing all sorts of problems. She has secretly liked her good friend Hunter for a while now, but how can she stand out in a crowd of overzealous Spandexers? As if dating wasn’t hard enough without a four-to-one ratio! (Goodreads summary)
“’Okay, I’m kidnapping her and making her my AP physics experiment,’ Darcy tells me, dunking her green tea bag like she’s trying to drown a sixteenth century witch. We’re waiting for my Frappuccino while Aviva and Bobbi snag a table.
‘I mean, this is incredible. All the variables are the same. This is the same Starbucks we always come to. This is the same time we’re always here. The only thing that’s different is that we brought Bobbi. Does she literally attract boys?’”
~ 56%, The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney
“’Stop messing with it,’ Eugene tells me. ‘It’s supposed to have that part in it. You can’t mess with the part.
‘I hate having my hair parted,’ I tell him. ‘It’s too neat. I look like one of the Hitler Youth. This is a politically incorrect haircut.'”
~ 64% , The Boy Recession by Flynn Meaney
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong.
“In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me.
He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn’t care.
‘There,’ he said as he finished tying the laces on my left shoe. ‘Now you won’t fall.’
Too late.”
~ p. 246 , The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
“‘You told me I smelled – like bacon.’
‘Well,’ he said evenly. ‘That’s awkward.‘”
~ p. 379 , The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
“‘You don’t want me.’
‘You have no idea what you do to me,’ he said as he stood. ‘I could barely keep my hands off you last night, even after seeing what you’d been through this week. Even after know how wrecked you were when you told me. And I’m going to live an eternity in hell for that dream I had about you on your birthday. But if I could call it up again, I’d spend it twice.’
~ p. 429 , The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
What are you reading this week?
Ahhhhhh! I can’t wait to read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer! I feel like I’m the last person to read the book. >.< Need to read it soon!
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Lisa @ Shatterbooks
Nope. Not the last person. I haven’t read it yet either, but Heather insists that I must move it up the TBR list.
I haven’t read Mara Dyer yet, but that bacon quote is priceless!
Great teasers. My teaser comes from Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo.
Aww..Dani, I love your pick. Thanks for sharing because I Hadn’t heard of this author or book before. I am going to add to my TBR pile. I love your button for this meme!!!
My TT: http://bellesbookbag.blogspot.com/2012/07/teaser-tuesday-life-interrupted-by.html
I love bacon. Nothing wrong with smelling like bacon
agreed. =)
I haven’t heard of either of these, but they both sound great. I have to agree with Jessica. There’s nothing wrong with smelling like bacon.
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I’ve been wanting to read Michelle’s book for a while now. The Boy Recession teasers sound really cute too!Thanks for sharing!
Those Unbecoming of Mara Dyer teasers make me want to reread it! Loved them!
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=) LOVED it too!
Oh… I loved Mara Dyer! And The Boy Recession sounds AMAZING!!!
The Boy Recession sounds super awesome!!!! I have Mara Dyer sitting on my desk, I really need to get to it! Thanks for sharing these awesome teasers!
My Teaser Tuesday featuring This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
Yes, you should go read Mara Dyer. FAN-freakin’-TASTIC!
*Sigh* The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer. I’m reading it and now after these teasers i want to hurry up and finish it!
Thanks for sharing and here’s my TT! =D
Sooooo happy that Mara is still making her way around to people that haven’t read it!
Great teasers, you guys! Love The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer!
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The boy recession looks so cute!!!
Here’s my TT
Valerie
StuckInBooks
Ah…Hitler Youth! Definitely not telling my daughter about that one. I’m glad you are enjoying (or enjoyed)The Boy Recession Dani!
And Heather, I love Mara Dyer! The line about bacon always cracks me up!
Great choices ladies!
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Kristin
I haven’t read either of these, but I own Mara dyer and now CANNOT WAIT to read it and now I MUST own the boy recession lol. Thanks for the teasers =D
Great teasers! I have to read The Boy Recession! It sounds like it will be hilarious. I’ve read Mara Dyer. It is definitely different, but I loved it! I can’t wait for her to explain what is going on.
I’m reading some Mary Connealy books and Spellbound (Hex Hall #3), but I can’t seem to really get into them. Next in line is Timepiece by Myra McEntire and I’m hoping that I’ll really like that one.