Teaser and Top Ten Tuesday (#30) (10/15/13)

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
• 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! 

Teardrop (Teardrop #1) by Lauren Kate

From pg. 45 of my ARC*

Her eyes bored into her daughter's.  She said in the gravest tone Eureka had ever heard: "Never, ever cry again."

*This is and ARC copy.  Page number and quotes may not be the same in the finished copy.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

 

Top Ten Six Books I Was Forced to Read (either by teachers, friends, other bloggers, reviews)

I'm so sad.  This may be the first time I haven't been able to come up with 10 books for my list.  The problem is that I haven't been forced to read a book in a long time.  My reading is done completely on my own whims.  The other issue is that rarely have I enjoyed books that were forced on my by teachers or that I had to read for school.  Here is what I came up with:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

One of the few books that I read in school that I enjoyed.  I really disliked so many books that were required reading, because they were beat to death.  I liked this one. 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter #1) by J.K. Rowling

Nobody in my life reads like I do.  They also don't read what I read.  So many of the books that are recommended aren't my style,  this was the one book/series that was the exception.  My BFF, bugged me until I read it.  I loved it.

Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry #1) by Simone Elkeles

I belong to a Goodreads group where we assign a book for one another each month.  This was the best of the books that I was assigned.  I was so happy to get it off of my TBR pile. 

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

I took a class on children's literature, and there were some great books I read for that, the ages covered were 0-14.  So most of the books didn't cover YA.  This was one of the few that did.  This book rocked my world.  I loved it.  It remains one of the best books I've ever read.

Monster (Monster #1) by Walter Dean Myers

I read this for the same class as Speak, and it was amazing.  I don't know if it gets the same kind of love as Speak, but it's a really, really good book. 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 This is the only other book that I liked that was required reading while I was in school.  I did get annoyed by the end of the unit, but I am still left with some really fond memories of the book.