Teaser Tuesdays (66): Starry Nights

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 and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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MY TEASER

My cells have become anticipation as I return to her gallery, where I can hear the rustle of a dress. There she is, stepping out of her frame; so natural, so effortless, as if she does this every single night. Her long cream dress skims the floor, and she shakes out her blond curls, a Botticelli beauty emerging from a half shell. (eARC, 24%)

Starry Nights

by Daisy Whitney

9/3/13

Bloomsbury

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Seventeen-year-old Julien is a romantic—he loves spending his free time at the museum poring over the great works of the Impressionists. But one night, a peach falls out of a Cezanne, Degas ballerinas dance across the floor, and Julien is not hallucinating.

The art is reacting to a curse that trapped a beautiful girl, Clio, in a painting forever. Julien has a chance to free Clio and he can't help but fall in love with her. But love is a curse in its own right. And soon paintings begin to bleed and disappear. Together Julien and Clio must save the world's greatest art . . . at the expense of the greatest love they've ever known.

Like a master painter herself, Daisy Whitney brings inordinate talent and ingenuity to this romantic, suspenseful, and sophisticated new novel.A beautifully decorated package makes it a must-own in print.

Matilda 25th Anniversary Blog Tour {Giveaway}

I'm so excited to be participating in the Matilda 25th Anniversary Blog Tour! Can you believe this magical book is 25 years old?! Below you can learn more about this book and the new musical based on it, and enter to win an awesome prize pack...

Matilda is turning 25 this year! Kind of unbelievable, right? How can it already be 25 years since this wonderfully witty, intelligent five-year-old sprang onto the literary scene, inspiring all of us to read more and fight the man with our powers of telekinesis (Er, or just wish we had powers of telekinesis)? We’re celebrating this milestone with an epic 25-stop blog tour! Follow along to find out how your favorite bloggers feel about Matilda, and for a chance to win a Matilda prize pack at each and every stop!

Matilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance.
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.

Everyone who’s read Matilda knows how much she loves books. In Matilda, Dahl writes, “The walk [to the library] took only ten minutes and this allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cosy corner devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children’s book in the place, she started wandering round in search of something else.” Every Monday, bloggers on the Matilda 25th Anniversary tour will write about how they fell in love with books, just like Matilda! 

Books have always been an important part of my life. My parents tell stories about how I would sit completely enraptured as a child, even as young as a baby, as I had book after book read to me. Some of my earliest memories are of me reading. I remember being about five years old and lining up all my Berenstain Bears books (I had a ton!) on the floor, then spending hours reading each one of them. I wasn't a very adventurous or particularly outgoing child, but in books I could have grand adventure after grand adventure. As a child, I fell in love with what books gave me: magic, new worlds, the chance to be a heroine, characters who felt like best friends. In the third grade one of my friends gave me a copy of Matilda for my birthday and I instantly became such a fan of this magical, clever girl. Matilda was the first character that showed young me that being a booknerd wasn't something to be ashamed of, and to this day it's a title I wear proudly!

Did you know Matilda is now a Tony Award-nominated Broadway Musical? The show opened in April and has already been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical! Since not everyone can go to New York City to see the show in person, Penguin Teen is bringing the show to you with a Matilda the Musical prize pack giveaway! Enter to win a copy of the Matilda the Musical soundtrack, a Matilda the Musical poster, and a paperback copy of Matilda by Roald Dahl! You can buy tickets, see pictures, and listen to music from Matilda the Musical on their website: http://us.matildathemusical.com/

Be sure to visit the Official Matilda Facebook page to keep up with all things Matilda!

To find out more about Matilda the Musical on Broadway, visit their Facebook page!

About Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. His parents were Norwegian, so holidays were spent in Norway. As he explains in Boy, he turned down the idea of university in favor of a job that would take him to "a wonderful faraway place.” In 1933 he joined the Shell Company, which sent him to Mombasa in East Africa. When World War II began in 1939 he became a fighter pilot and in 1942 was made assistant air attaché in Washington, where he started to write short stories. His first major success as a writer for children was in 1964. Thereafter his children's books brought him increasing popularity, and when he died children mourned the world over. Matilda was published just two years before he died. Quentin Blake, the first Children's Laureate of the United Kingdom, has illustrated most of Roald Dahl's children's books.

Win a Matilda Prize Pack!

You can win a prize pack that includes: a paperback copy of Matilda, one copy of the Matilda the Musical soundtrack, and a Matilda the Broadway Musical poster!

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For the next stop on the Matilda 25th Anniversary blog tour, head to Ticket to Anywhere

Goodie Basket (48): Weekly Book Haul and Blog Recap

Goodie Basket...is a weekly feature hosted here at Word Spelunking that showcases all the goodies (books, bookish things, reviews, interviews/giveaways/guest posts, blog tours, etc) that popped up in the Goodie Basket that is Word Spelunking each week.

(This meme is inspired by other book haul memes such as In My Mailbox hosted by  The Mod Podge Bookshelf, Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews, Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits & Tea and Sunday Post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer )

What I received this week in my mailbox...

From Harper Collins and Harper Teen

Transparent by Natalie Whipple 

Faking It by Cora Carmack

September Girls by Bennett Madison

From Penguin Teen

Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

Not sure why I received two ARCs, but I've already found a loving home for one of them ;)

EBOOKS

From Netgalley

(all from Bloomsbury)

Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller

Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas

Hostage Three by Nick Lake 

Starry Nights by Daisy Whitney

From Edelweiss

The Troop by Nick Cutter

(Simon and Schuster)

From the Author

Candy and the Cankersaur by Jason Sandberg

Big THANK YOUs to Harper Collins/Teen, Penguin Teen, Bloosmbury, Simon & Schuster, and Jason Sandberg for all the bookish awesomeness this week!

Weekly Blog Recap

I took a bit of a blogging break this week, but did have two posts:

• The Warner Grimoire Blog Tour stopped by with my interview with author Clay Held and a ebook bundle prize pack.

• I spotlighted Traffic Jam by Melissa Groeling and am giving away a hard copy.

What did you get this week?!