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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn at A Daily Rhythm. 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!
Margaret watched the old man's shoulders sag and thought for the first time that he really did look old. She couldn't believe he was planning to marry someone who was losing her mind. She felt rude asking, but couldn't help herself.
~Until the Harvest
by Sarah Loudin Thomas, page 49
~Until the Harvest
by Sarah Loudin Thomas, page 49~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
First Chapter/First Paragraph/Tuesday Intros is a weekly link-up hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea. To participate, share the first paragraph (or two) of a book you're reading, or thinking about reading soon.
Just yesterday, I received this book to review, and I'm excited about it! I read the first novel and the novella by Sarah Loudin Thomas, and loved both - and that's despite the fact that the setting is much more modern than I generally prefer. The novels stand alone, but I already 'know' many of the characters. Here's how it opens:
Wise, West VirginiaNew Year's Eve 1975 Henry Phillips sliced into the venison steak on his plate and savored the rich meatiness of it. Mom always cooked his favorites when he came home from college, and this Christmas break was no different. He'd been enjoying being home so much he almost decided against broaching the subject of his music for fear Mom and Dad would launch into their usual speech about his education coming first, but he was itching to share the latest news.
"Mort Jeffries asked me to come play at the Screen Door down on High Street. Guess I must've sounded pretty good."
His father raised one reddish eyebrow shot through with gray and chewed a bit of potato. "Oh?"
Here's the blurb:
When a family tragedy derails Henry Phillips's college studies, he's left unmoored and feeling abandoned. Although Henry tries to find escape in bad company, the only things that can tamp down his anger and grief are the family farm, his fiddle, and sweet but unusual pre-teen Mayfair Hoffman.
Unfortunately, Mayfair's older sister, Margaret, with the freckles and cute, turned-up nose, has the opposite effect. Worse, she's his grandmother's housekeeper and helper, so she's always around and ready to push his buttons. At first he thinks she doesn't care about his loss, before beginning to understand she's facing her own struggles. Mayfair's health and unique gift sit at the heart of those worries, and Henry and Margaret soon find themselves relying on each other as both Henry's future and Mayfair's life are put at risk.
What do you think? Would you continue reading?
by Heidi St. John - I am reviewing this book for the Schoolhouse Review Crew, so I will post my full review on my Homeschool Coffee Break blog next week, and then a brief review here. 
by Elizabeth Chadwick - I've spent most of my limited reading time on this one over the past week or two.
by Anna Elliott
by Jill Eileen Smith
by Michelle Griep that caught my attention, so I picked it up on a library run, and it's now on my stack waiting for me to get started. Here's how it opens:
