Teaser Tuesday on Thursday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.  Anyone can playing 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

   

 "Eventually, perhaps.  But 'free association' is selective in China.  When disapproved of, it is punished.  There are secret places, deep and dark, places most people think do not exist, or pretend they don't.  After Six Four it was hard to pretend."
          p.93-94 Safely Home by Randy Alcorn

I forgot this week's Teaser Tuesday!  I didn't want to go two weeks without putting one up so I put it up today.  Hopefully, I get things right next week!  This week's teaser is longer than two sentences.  It's to, uh, make up for not having one last week. ;)

Teaser Tuesday

There is no Teaser Tuesday today.  It will be back next week.

Book Review: Comeback by Rick McDaniel

G, 3 stars

A short guide on turning setbacks into comebacks.  It was simple and easy to read.  I liked the final chapter with the stories on the best comebacks.  It's inspiring.  These people had major setbacks, but they didn't let that effect them.  They were able to conquer the setbacks.  It's possible for us to do that, too.

I did think the book was very repetitive.  It constantly was saying that if you have a setback don't let it ruin you.  You can have a comeback.  It just used different words to say that.  It's not always a bad thing.  It helps to reinforce the concept that one can make a comeback from a setback.  In a book like this, that's important.  One needs the reassurance.

I've never reviewed a self-help book before.  In fact, I don't really read them.  This was a challenge for me, not to read, but to critique it.  It's not the same as a story or a book of fact.  It's written differently.  I enjoyed reading the book.  It made me want to start a comeback of my own.

Check out the book's website for more information!

I read this as a review request as PDF on my laptop.  All opinions expressed are my own.  I was not paid for this review.

 

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.  Anyone can playing 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

    The worst day of my life began as the best day of my life.
p.1 By Faith, Not By Sight by Scott MacIntyre

I know we are asked to put two sentences, but the next sentence is the start of a new paragraph and this one stands well on its own.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.  Anyone can playing 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

    She'd been too hard on him.  "Just remember I'm here for you Brandon.  That won't change."
p.29 The Mercy (The Rose Trilogy #3) by Beverly Lewis

Book Review: Xor: The Shape of Darkness by Moshe Sipper

PG, 3 stars

Lewis awoke on his twelfth birthday to find he was a bug.  No, wait, he was still just a boy.  No, wait, he's a dinosaur!  Phew, still just a boy.

He was not imagining himself as a bug and a dinosaur.  He was coming into his shaping abilities.  Lewis was a shaper from the planet Xor.

He didn't know he was a shaper.  He didn't know he was from the planet Xor.  He had been adopted as a baby by a nice Earth couple or as people on the planet Xor called Earth: Backwater.

Lewis's mission after gaining his abilities was to save Xor from the Realm Pirates.  They were slowly turning the planet black and when the entire planet becomes black it's gone, all gone, everything and everyone inside it, including Lewis's real parents: Lord and Lady Shipper.

I don't read much fantasy, but I do enjoy it from time to time.  Moshe Sipper created a fun world involving Shapers and other crazy characters.  Lewis's mission takes him on a journey through himself.  The moral of the story is one worth reading.  The story did seem simplistic, but for a middle school age reader that might be a good thing.

What is Xor?  What is a shaper?  Who are the Realm Pirates?  Does Lewis save the world?  Find out in this exciting fantasy story.

I read this as a review request on the Kindle App on my laptop.  All opinions expressed are my own and I was not compensated in any way.

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.  Anyone can playing 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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

    The Detective backed his rental out of the driveway like a grandmother, in fits and starts, and didn't waste any gas crawling up the incline, through the tree-starved neighborhood, toward Highway 74.  Looking back on it later, Grant would wonder why he threw the cop's calling card away.
p.131 A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar by Daniel Pyne