Teaser Tuesday: Lion's Honey by David Grossman

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
1. Grab your current read.
2. Open to a random page.
3. Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.
4. 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!).
5. 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 Teaser:

          And maybe this is what motivates Samson, and not only in this instance. He goes through life like a walking enigma, marveling over his secret, his riddle. He enjoys approaching the dangerous brink of being found out by others. Yet, on second thoughts, this word 'enjoys' is inaccurate: more likely he is driven to this: compelled to confront this feeling, this bitter-tasting knowledge that he is impenetrable, that he cannot be released from his strangeness, nor from the mystery within. - pg. 69, Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

What are you reading this week?

2012 Reading Challenge: Dystopia

I found a unique challenge that I could not pass up for the new year. The Dystopia Challenge is being hosted by Bookish Ardour. The blog suggested a list of 15 titles for the challenge, but I realized that I have read more dystopia than I previously thought. The list does not include any YA books, though. Since I know of several YA titles that I would like to read that would fit this category, I decided to join the challenge at the level of Asocial with 5 books.

This is a list of books that I will pull from to complete this challenge:

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
4. Divergent by Veronica Roth
5. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
6. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
7. Matched by Ally Condie
8. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
9. Fever by Lauren DeStefano
10. Enclave by Ann Aquirre
11. Crossed by Ally Condie
12. Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky
13. Bumped by Megan McCafferty
14. XVI by Julie Karr
15. Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Books I have read for this challenge:
1. The Elephant Mountains by Scott Ely
2. Across the Universe by Beth Revis
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
5. Divergent by Veronica Roth
6. Wither by Lauren DeStefano
7. Fever by Lauren DeStefano
8. A Million Suns by Beth Revis
9. Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
10. Enclave by Ann Aguirre

2012 Reading Challenge: Read Your Own Books

My second challenge for the new year is Read Your Own Books Challenge, hosted by Tales From the Crypt. This challenge is for those of us who have books that we’ve purchased and just haven’t gotten to. The books that qualify are any that I have personally purchased, been gifted, or swapped, BEFORE January 1, 2012 and just have not gotten the chance to read yet. I count books that I have won in this description, too. This also means that I can not include any books that I have been asked to review.
I am terrible about bringing home books and forgetting to read them simply because I had no "due date," like library books, or a required review. This challenge will force me to acknowledge the books that I frivolously acquire!
I am picking Level 2 for this challenge at 6 - 10 books, which I will list here as I read them.

1. Rugged and Relentless by Kelly Eileen Hake
2. The Elephant Mountains by Scott Ely
3. Haunting Jasmine by Anjali Banerjee
4. The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven by Kevin & Alex Malarkey
5. Veiled Rose by Anne Elisabeth Stengl
6. Autumn Winds by Charlotte Hubbard
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