Teaser Tuesday & Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag This Summer or Ten Books I Think Make Great Beach Reads

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. 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!

Tiara’s Teaser

Page 1: "For my shield this day I call: Heaven’s might, Sun’s brightness, Moon’s whiteness, Fire’s glory, Lightning’s swiftness, Wind’s wildness, Ocean’s depth, Earth’s solidity, Rock’s immobility."

Mary Weber, Storm Siren

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. They created the meme because they love lists. Who doesn’t love lists? They wanted to share these list with fellow book lovers and ask that we share in return to connect with our fellow book lovers. To learn more about participating in the challenge, stop by their page dedicated to it and dive in!

This week’s topic: Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag This Summer or Ten Books I Think Make Great Beach Reads

Tiara’s Picks

The Prophecy Con by Patrick Weekes

I started this, and then, put it on the backburner for a bit as I tried to get through other audiobooks (and books in general) that I needed to finish first. This is the sequel to The Palace Job, which you know I’m a big fan of that book. However, I have some trips and things coming up for the summer with the family. This is exactly the kind of read that I’d take on the beach or listen to during a drive.

Meredith Against the Wind by Amanda Gale

A few of my friends have read this series and liked it, so I decided to give it a try.  I read the first book Meredith Out of the Darkness a couple of months back. The story revolves around a teacher (and daughter to two emotionally distant, overachieving parents and sister to a brother who’s “disappointed” their parents by becoming a drifting painter rather than continuing the longstanding family tradition of being a teacher) named Meredith as she tries to piece her life back together after the death of her fiance. I really, really need to find out if a certain part of this story ever comes together because I’ll die if it just ends on that note.

Willful Child by Steven Erikson

And I quote: “These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life life-forms, to boldly blow the…” How could I not read this? Humorous space opera? Always here for it.

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

I recently bought this during Audible’s Deal of the Day. One of the narrators is Jesse Bernstein who I’m a fan of due to his readings of the Percy Jackson series, and the premise sounded interesting:

A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah’s story to tell. The later years are Jude’s. What the twins don’t realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world

When Mystical Creatures Attack by Kathleen Founds

Do you see that cover? Do you? Tentacles and unicorns. It seems like it is probably relevant to my interests. Also this blurb:

In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman’s high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, “a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would be interesting were it not so ill-informed,” and Cody Splunk, an aspiring writer working on a time machine. Following a nervous breakdown, Ms. Freedman corresponds with Janice and Cody from an insane asylum run on the capitalist model of cognitive-behavioral therapy, where inmates practice water aerobics to rebuild their Psychiatric Credit Scores.

Seven Years by Dannika Dark

I was actually gifted this book as an audiobook and Kindle book by a friend who loves to feed that part of me that enjoys this kind of stuff (light paranormal romance). I’ll definitely be more in the mood for this kind of read now that it’s summer.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Buddy read with my friends Monica and Sparkle. I’ve had this book for years and years and years. Still haven’t read it. I was thinking about watching the series soon, so I decided that I’d better started on reading this, too. My friend Monica will be reading this for the first time, as well. My friend Sparkle will be rereading and offering moral support (which means she’ll patiently let us flail at her).

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

I know some people have recommended that I read these books in order, but I already had this book when some people started imploring that I read these as they were published. Part of the Rincewind series of these books. I’m buddy reading this series with my friend, Nick. This will be the third book that I’ve read by Pratchett. If I find myself confused or put off, I’ll definitely switch gears and read these in order.

The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

Another buddy reading with my friend, Monica. We’ve watched the extended versions of the Swedish version of these movies on Netflix (Loved them!). We’ve watched the remade version with Daniel Craig. And, of course, we’ve read the first book together. Now, it’s time for us to read the second and third books together, especially in light of there now being a fourth book written by  David Lagercrantz, which we haven’t decided if we’re going to read or not yet since Larsson’s partner has criticized the project and says that she has an unfinished manuscript for the next book in her possession.

Spotless by Camilla Monk

They had me at “A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn’t there to kill her…yet.” Sounds like a total fluffy, mysterious, summer read.