Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Teaser Tuesday ~ 3/11/14

This is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.


To participate you:
* 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!




Heart attacks happen to other people #thingsIthoughtweretrue

When Morgan's mom gets sick, it's hard not to panic. Without her mother, she would have no one—until she finds out the dad who walked out on her as a baby isn't as far away as she thought...

Adam is a stuck-up, uptight jerk #thingsIthoughtweretrue

Now that they have a summer job together, Morgan's getting to know the real Adam, and he's actually pretty sweet...in a nerdy-hot kind of way. He even offers to go with her to find her dad. Road trip, anyone?

5000 Twitter followers are all the friends I need #thingsIthoughtweretrue

With Adam in the back seat, a hyper chatterbox named Amy behind the wheel, and plenty of Cheetos to fuel their trip, Morgan feels ready for anything. She's not expecting a flat tire, a missed ferry, a fake girlfriend...and that these two people she barely knew before the summer started will become the people she can't imagine living without.


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17586459-16-things-i-thought-were-true

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402277970http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/16-things-i-thought-were-true-janet-gurtler/1116827934



Have a teaser for me?  Leave me a comment.

Road Trips


Guest Post by Janet Gurtler

One of the only “girls only” road trips I took was when I was 21. I lived in a Canadian city, Winnipeg, and our closest border “town” was Grand Forks. Not very big, not terribly glamorous, but it was the US of A baby. Something you might not know about Canada, we have lower drinking ages than the States.  But when everyone turned 21, it was kind of coming of age thing to pile people into the car, cross the border and shop and party in the States.

Something else I should mention. I was 21 a long time ago. I was on my own and I was BROKE. Things were different. The US had way more interesting restaurants and shops than Canada back then. Target was a big hairy deal for us Canadians. Even tiny places like Grand Forks seemed kind of fabulous.  We have pretty much the same stores on both sides of the border now. For the most part. But back then, it seemed so different than us.

The other thing the US had. Cheap booze. Cheap cigarettes.  And this was in the day when people smoked everywhere. Gross. In shopping malls, in the office, in restaurants and the bars. And yes. Back then, I was a smoker. So it was a big thrill to head across the border and pick up cartons of “cheap smokes.” Gross again.

 I shudder to remember. Anyhow. There we were. 21 year olds. It was the late 80’s.  We had neon clothes. Big hair.  Achy Breaky Heart was our theme song.  Four of us.  Windows open, feet outside. Music blasting. Blowing smoke rings.  Eating sunflower seeds and diet coke.
We thought we were hot stuff.  And we did the kind of crazy things, only the young can get away with. We crashed a couple of Frat House parties. We drank too much, flirted too much, stayed out too late and ate greasy hang over food for breakfast.  Decadence personified.
The good old days. I don’t miss some parts of them. ;)




8 comments:

  1. A road trip... yeah, that does sound kind of fun.

    My TT @ Marilyn's Mystery Blog

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  2. What a funny teaser! Sounds like a light read.

    My Teaser

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  3. HA! That was a great tease! Kinda reminds me of my thoughts as a teen lol.

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  4. This book sounds really great. I love the teaser!!

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  5. Interesting Teaser! It sound like her parents are very lenient, and are hippies! This book sounds like a fun read!

    Lindy@ A Bookish Escape

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  6. Fun teaser! I'm up for a road trip any time. I'm going to have to check this out. Sounds like a fun summer read. Mine is from Another Faust - http://fuonlyknew.com/2014/03/11/teaser-tuesdays-61-another-faust/

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  7. Nice teaser! They are the exact opposite of my parents!

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