Monday, October 31, 2011

Teaser Tuesdays (67)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Anyone can play 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!



My teasers this week:

"When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign." p. 1

"For the first twenty-six years she'd been alive, her hands had been a honey-toned pink, deepening to golden brown in the summertime. Now, they were the color of newly shed blood." p.1

"During her teens she was always getting into trouble over one thing or another: trying on lip gloss, doing forbidden searches on her port, reading books her parents considered corrupting. Most often though, it was for voicing the questions that cropped up so insistently in her mind; 'Why is it immodest for girls not to wear shirts but not for boys?' 'Why does God let innocent people suffer?' 'If Jesus turned water into wine, why is it wrong for people to drink it?' These questions exasperated her parents, especially her mother, who would make her sit in silence for hours and reflect on her presumption." p.14


When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

Description from the book:

Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family. But after she's convicted of murder, she awakens in a new body to a nightmarish new life. She finds herself lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home, for whom observing new Chromes--criminals whose skin color has been genetically altered to match the class of their crime--is a sinister form of entertainment. Hannah is a Red for the crime of murder. The victim, says the State of Texas, was her unborn child, and Hannah is determined to protect the identity of the father, a public figure with whom she shared a fierce and forbidden love.

A powerful reimagining of The Scarlet LetterWhen She Woke is a timely fable about a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of the not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated, and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed and released back into the population to survive as best they can. In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith and love.


10 comments:

  1. Whoa. So the cover literally pertains to the story. Interesting.

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  2. Kind of scary! Here is my teaser for this week.

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  3. Interesting teasers--my husband is reading this one now.

    Here's ours, 3 this week, all from different genres: http://ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesday-difficult-boy-and-small.html

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  4. That sounds like a very different world. Here is my teaser:

    http://mixedbookbag.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesday-november-1-2011.html

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  5. Oh, I can't wait to read this one! It's on my list for this week.

    It seems reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale...or The Scarlet Letter.

    Thanks for teasing me today!

    Here's MY TT POST and
    MY WEBSITE

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  6. Interesting, I haven't seen this book will have to check it out. Could you imagine being red. Here's my Teaser.

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  7. This book looks awesome. Your other current read looks good as well.
    My Teaser

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  8. Sounds intriguing!

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2011/11/teaser-tuesday.html

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  9. I have this one on my shelf, but haven't gotten to it yet. Sounds powerful! Thanks for sharing. If you get a chance, my teaser is here.

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  10. Intense teaser....I've been hearing more and more about this book lately, so I will keep my eye out for your review!

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