Teaser Tuesdays - January 13, 2015

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. To play along, just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

I finally got started on two books that have been on my TBR list for quite awhile. First up is Ticker by Lisa Mantchev. It had me from the opening sentence:

A girl with a clockwork heart shouldn't be running late, but I was.

But here are the teasers:

Somewhere deep inside him still dwelled the caring surgeon and gentle man I'd known, but the blood of more than twenty people stained his hands, people he'd kidnapped off the streets of Bazalgate and experimented upon, testing different clockwork ventriculators...
All to save me.
~Ticker by Lisa Mantchev, 5% on my Kindle



Alec was glad to have a way to support his family that didn't involve dirty manual labor -- that relief was genuine enough. Yet he had his reservations about working for the woman who had single-handedly laid waste his career and plans for the future.
At least for the present.
~The Dancing Master by Julie Klassen, page 70

   

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Scripture and a Snapshot - January 10, 2015

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"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock." 

~Matthew 7:24-25~

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Teaser Tuesdays - January 6, 2015

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. To play along, just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

The men on deck rushed to the rails to get a look, but they were subdued now, their task emptied of some of its fun by the earnestness of the young man they had sent deep into the murky waters below them. Several of them hoped aloud he'd make it. The sailors walked the lines backward, hand-over-hand past the ratlines and rigging, over the cannon and cannonballs, toward the stern of the ship, where they would fish Packer, or his body, from the brine.

~The Legend of the Firefish by George Bryan Polivka, page 58

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Scripture and a Snapshot - January 3, 2015

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 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

~James 1:17~

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Scripture and a Snapshot - December 27, 2014

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"He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end."

~Luke 1:32-33~

This drawing was done live by my daughter during our Christmas Eve service.

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Recent Reads - Star of the East

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 Star of the East: A Lady Emily Christmas Story by Tasha Alexander - I read this Lady Emily novella shortly before Christmas. Lady Emily and her husband Colin have agreed to spend Christmas at her parents' home, even though her mother tries Emily's patience quite sorely. The other house guests include a family from British India. Emily befriends the daughter, who is petulantly demanding that her parents find her a husband even though she is still rather young for marriage. This odd behavior sets the stage for the drama, because the 'Star of the East' is a valuable family jewel that is traditionally worn by a bride, but has a curse attached to it. When the jewel disappears after ----- wears it to a dinner party, Colin and Emily set to work to find out what happened. After all, the list of suspects is not very long, since it must have been someone in the house.

By the same author: The Counterfeit Heiress, Behind the Shattered Glass, Death in the Floating City, A Crimson Warning, Dangerous to Know, Tears of Pearl, A Fatal Waltz, A Poisoned Season, And Only to Deceive

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Scripture and a Snapshot - December 21, 2014

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The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of god, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

~John 1:9-14~

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