Tuesday, December 29

Teaser Tuesdays/First Chapter First Paragraph - Odd Thomas

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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!

Pale, puffy, his watery gray gaze floating over store windows, looking almost as bemused as an Alzheimer's patient who has wandered out of his care facility into a world he no longer recognizes, Fungus Man carried stuffed shopping bags from two department stores.
"What's that yellow thing on his head?" Stormy asked.
"Hair."
 ~Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel by Dean Koontz, 17% on my Kindle



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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.

    My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist.     I am not a celebrity. I am not the child of a celebrity. I have never been married to, never been abused by, and never provided a kidney for transplantation into any celebrity. Furthermore, I have no desire to be a celebrity.     In fact I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion.
Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel by Dean Koontz



Here's the blurb:

"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz's dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.

Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it's different. A stranger comes to Pico Mundo, accompanied by a horde of hyena-like shades who herald an imminent catastrophe. Aided by his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Odd will race against time to thwart the gathering of evil. His account of these shattering hours, in which past and present, fate and destiny, converge, is a testament by which to live -- an unforgettable fable for our time destined to rank among Dean Koontz's most enduring works.

What do you think? Would you continue reading?


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What I'm Reading - December 28, 2015

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This weekly reading list meme is hosted at Book Date. Join in to see what others are reading and maybe get some ideas of what to read next!

I recently finished reading...

Star of Wonder: A Novella (The Incense Road Book 1) by Tracy L Higley (Read my review HERE.)

Star of Wonder (The Incense Road #1)


Holiday Buzz (A Coffeehouse Mystery) by Cleo Coyle (Read my review HERE.)



Toward the Sunrise: An Until the Dawn Novella by Elizabeth Camden - (Read my review HERE.)



I'm currently reading...

The Fatal Tree (Bright Empires) by Stephen R Lawhead - I'm only a couple chapters from the end, so expect this review before the week is over!

The Fatal Tree (Bright Empires, #5)

Worship Changes Everything: Experiencing God's Presence in Every Moment of Life by Darlene Zschech

     

Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story) by Dean Koontz and Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel by Dean Koontz - since it was just a short story, not even a novella, I got started on the first full Odd Thomas novel and will review them together too.

  

 A Taste of Traditional Regency Romances: Extended excerpts of Regency novels (Bluestocking League Book 1) by Gail Eastwood, Camille Elliot, April Kihlstrom, Vanessa Riley, Regina Scott



A Royal Pain: A Royal Spyness Mystery by Rhys Bowen (audiobook)




 Next on the stack...

  David and Bathsheba by Roberta Kells Dorr
Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Beauty So Rare (A Belmont Mansion Novel) by Tamera Alexander

    

  

On my blogs in the last week or two . . .

Here on Just A Second:

Scripture and a Snapshot - O Holy Night
Recent Reads - Toward the Sunrise
Recent Reads - Holiday Buzz
Recent Reads - Star of Wonder
Wordless Wednesday - Almost Christmas
Scripture and a Snapshot - Away in a Manger
Teaser Tuesdays/First Chapter First Paragraph - Holiday Buzz

And on my homeschool blog, Homeschool Coffee Break:

Homeschool Weekly - Boxing Day Edition
Virtual Refrigerator - Christmas Art: Last Christmas Eve
The Gift of Traditions
Happy Holidays - High School Blog Roll
From the High School Lesson Book - Homeschooling High School Blog Roll
Virtual Refrigerator - Christmas Art: Nativity Wall-hanging
Graduation Thoughts


What are you reading?

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Saturday, December 26

Scripture and a Snapshot - O Holy Night

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When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."
So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.
When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this hild, and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
~Luke 2:15-20~


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