Teaser Tuesday – The Key on the Quilt

April 1876 Dawson County, Nebraska If it wasn’t for the occasional night when he tried to kill her, Owen wouldn’t be a bad husband. – opening line from Stephanie Grace Whitson’s The Key on the Quilt   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – The Fiddler

Suddenly, she was thrust into a brassy spray of light.  And, blinking her eyes in the stark brilliance, she saw a good-looking young man standing at the door. ~p. 43 of The Fiddler (Home to Hickory Hollow #1) by Beverly Lewis ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – Death by Petticoat by Mary Theobald

  Myth #1 So many colonial American women died from burns when their long petticoats caught fire that it became the second-most common cause of death, after childbirth. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 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 [...]

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Teaser Tuesday

Obsession was the way in which madness lay. -Opening line from Love on the Range by Jessica Nelson   ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 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” [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – The Iron Thorn

There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft.  I’ve visited all of them. -The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge                         ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – March 13th

Professors Antony Tavish and Wanda Brook-Tavish are, at this precise moment, flying back from six months’ sabbatical in Chicago.  I can picture them now, eating honey-roasted peanuts and reading academic papers on their his ‘n’ her kindles.  I honestly don’t know which of them is more intimidating. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – The Humming Room

She can slip through the narrowest gaps like a ferret.  Like all good thieves, she understands space. -The Humming Room by Ellen Potter   LOVED this book! Review to come! A novel inspired by The Secret Garden! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – Feb 14th

Miss Cecily Hurston battered her ivory-tipped parasol against the hulking footman who none too gently thrust her through the doors of Number 13 Bruton Street. -How to Dance with a Duke by Manda Collins LOVED this book! Review to come! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – The Eagle

Now that he could sit up, he could look out into the courtyard, and see the rosebush in its wine-jar, just outside his window.  There was still one crimson rose among the dark leaves, but even as he watched, a petal fell from it like a great slow drop of blood.  Soon the rest would [...]

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Teaser Tuesday – May B.

  After all, I cook some, collect fuel, mend, tote water, hoe, wash, pretty braid or not. Why not Hiram?  I think, but I already know: boys are necessary.         Review to come soon! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play [...]

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