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 “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 teaser.
This week's teaser comes from page 173 of Burned by Ellen Hopkins.
“”Will you miss me, Dad?”
Now,
you have to remember
That
my dad and I hardly shared
Fifty words in any
given day
I’d just used up one tenth of my
allotment.
Miss you? I don’t even
Know
you, Pattyn.
His admission
stung. Enough
to stick a big ol’ lump
in my throat.
Enough to give me the
courage
To ask, around the lump,
“Whose fault is that?”
His
hands tensed on the wheel
and I could see the
little veins
at his temples swell
and plump faster.
Too much to think
about?
Enough blame to go
around I guess.
He wanted me to let it
drop.I wasn’t about to give
him his way.
He could blame me for
many things.
But not for the
closeness we’d lost."
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