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"Great. We can drink sake and talk math." "You meant talk math and murder." (pg. 126, The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, ARC ) Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. Pre-order The Devotion of Suspect X at Amazon, an Indie bookstore, or The Book Depository. I received  my copy from the publisher and the above is my honest opinion....

Stolen or not, however, his satisfaction was always fleeting: the more books a collector gets, the more he wants. In this respect, Gilkey is like any other collector. As collectors have often remarked, collecting is like a hunger, and having one more book doesn't quench the longing for another. (pg. 102, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett) I just started this book last night so haven't had much time to get into it yet. Collecting sounds like an addiction, though, doesn't it? Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. Purchase The Man Who Loved Books Too Much at Amazon, an Indie bookstore, or The...

We each exercise our charm and wile to convince our customers to pay us or vote for us, for we're in competition with others who can provide the same services. And we'll both do just about anything, as long as the price is right. Frankly, I think it's a damned slur against the tarts to consign them to the social rubbish heap just for earning a living while praising the politicos as selfless public servants. At least bints aren't hypocritical: you'll never hear one of them blathering on sanctimoniously that they do what they do for the benefit of the British public. (pg. 3, India Black by Carol K. Carr) So far, I have to say that I like India Black. She's independent, intelligent, charming and resourceful. And the fact that she owns a brothel makes her stand out from the ordinary heroine. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules...

Her eyes were narrowed and she was staring at my hand. "Let me go," she said, her voice low and threatening. The rules of the game had changed, and she didn't like it. (pg. 137, Escapade by Walter Satterthwait) Yes, I'm still slogging through this book. I can't put my finger on what's missing. It's got some great character, a murder in a locked room, witty dialogues, but I'm just bored, trying to finish. I don't hate it enough to just put it down, but I just can't seem to care enough to pick it up rather than doing something else. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. Purchase at...

"That" was a man in the same Santa suit I'd seen him wearing upstairs. His eyes, how they twinkled as they continued not to blink. His cheeks were like roses (or rather the blood drying upon his cheeks was) and his nose was like a cherry . . .  a large, crushed black cherry. A twist of his head — more specifically the odd angle at which it lay against his shoulders — soon gave me to know St. nick had nothing to dread. Not this Christmas Eve, not the next. He was as dead as the toy department of Macy's on Christmas morning. (pg. 181, "The Long Winter's Nap" by Rupert Holmes in Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler) I'm really enjoying this collection so far. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your ...