Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page From
*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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
  He couldn’t shake the feeling of oppression, the frosted death of this place.  Had Reed even made it this far that night?

Alexandra, Gone by Anna McPartlin
Published by Downtown Press (Division of Simon & Schuster)
ISBN 978-1-4391-2333-1
At the request of Gallery & Pocket Books, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis (from back of book): Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sister’s art career, and looking after their volatile mother-all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her.
  Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandra’s husband, who has some shocking news, Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevator’s other passengers-Janes’s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer who’s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes Tom isn’t the only one among them who’s looking for something…or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense.
  My Thoughts and Opinion: Most books I read, I can’t wait to finish it to find out the ending.  I was totally ambivalent with this one. I hated to see it end, but then I also wanted to see how it did end.  I don’t know about you, but, I become part of the story in which I am reading.  That is why I didn’t want to turn the last page because I became friends with the characters of this book.  In Alexandra, Gone, the author writes a story of the lives of many loveable, but at times, troubled characters.  I found myself laughing out loud on one page, eyes filling with tears on another, and frustrated with them on yet another.  Ms. McPartlin tells a tender, funny, poignant and moving story of friendship, loss, disappointment, pain, denial and love on so many levels.  This book is the type of book that you get so engrossed while reading that you are unaware of what is going on around you, at least that is what happened to me.  I highly recommend reading Alexandra, Gone and becoming friends with Jane, Elle, Leslie and all the other characters.

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Today’s question:
Where is your most often used (favorite) reading spot? Do you have more than one? What makes your favorite spot just that
My Answer:
I have a few depending on what room I am in and what season it is.  Now that its summer I like reading by and in the pool. In the winter, especially if it is snowing, my living room recliner so I can also see the snow coming down.  And then there is the family room recliner and of course, in bed. 

Hosted by Sheila at One Persons Journey Through A World Of Books http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/

This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week:
Finished:
  Unfortunately didn’t finish any.
Currently reading:
  Alexandra, Gone by Anna McPartlin (wonderful book) and will be finished within the next couple of days.
Then on to:
  The University by Jeffrey Leever
  The Journey Home by Michael Baron

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Alexandra, Gone by Anna McPartlin
Published by Downtown Press (Division of Simon & Schuster)
ISBN 978-1-4391-2333-1
At the request of Gallery & Pocket Books, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis (from back of book): Once, Jane Moore and Alexandra Walsh were inseparable, sharing secrets and stolen candy, plotting their futures together. But when Jane became pregnant at seventeen, they drifted slowly apart. Jane has spent the years since raising her son, now seventeen himself, on her own, running a gallery, managing her sister’s art career, and looking after their volatile mother-all the while trying not to resent the limited choices life has given her.
  Then a quirk of fate and a faulty elevator bring Jane into contact with Tom, Alexandra’s husband, who has some shocking news, Alexandra disappeared from a south Dublin suburb months ago and Tom has been searching fruitlessly for her. Jane offers to help, as do the elevator’s other passengers-Janes’s brilliant but self-absorbed sister, Elle and Leslie Sheehan, a reclusive web designer who’s ready to step back into the world again. And as Jane quickly realizes Tom isn’t the only one among them who’s looking for something…or traveling toward unexpected revelations about love, life, and what it means to let go, in every sense.
  My Thoughts and Opinion: Most books I read, I can’t wait to finish it to find out the ending.  I was totally ambivalent with this one. I hated to see it end, but then I also wanted to see how it did end.  I don’t know about you, but, I become part of the story in which I am reading.  That is why I didn’t want to turn the last page because I became friends with the characters of this book.  In Alexandra, Gone, the author writes a story of the lives of many loveable, but at times, troubled characters.  I found myself laughing out loud on one page, eyes filling with tears on another, and frustrated with them on yet another.  Ms. McPartlin tells a tender, funny, poignant and moving story of friendship, loss, disappointment, pain, denial and love on so many levels.  This book is the type of book that you get so engrossed while reading that you are unaware of what is going on around you, at least that is what happened to me.  I highly recommend reading Alexandra, Gone and becoming friends with Jane, Elle, Leslie and all the other characters.

Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com
Today’s question:
Where is your most often used (favorite) reading spot? Do you have more than one? What makes your favorite spot just that
My Answer:
I have a few depending on what room I am in and what season it is.  Now that its summer I like reading by and in the pool. In the winter, especially if it is snowing, my living room recliner so I can also see the snow coming down.  And then there is the family room recliner and of course, in bed. 

Hosted by Sheila at One Persons Journey Through A World Of Books http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/

This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week:
Finished:
  Unfortunately didn’t finish any.
Currently reading:
  Alexandra, Gone by Anna McPartlin (wonderful book) and will be finished within the next couple of days.
Then on to:
  The University by Jeffrey Leever
  The Journey Home by Michael Baron