Teaser Tuesday #60 and Top Ten Tuesday #50

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Bloggers choose two

sentences out of our current read to peak others' curiosity.

Teaser: 

Dinner was hopeless. I mean properly hopeless, as in all the hopes we had that it was going to be a lovely evening were dashed almost immediately. 

After Iris by Natasha Farrant 

  

  

        

An unforgettable middle-grade debut that will steal your heart Blue Gadsby’s twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same. Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily; her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed with their pet rats; and both of her parents spend weeks away from home–and each other. Enter Zoran the Bosnian male au pair and Joss the troublemaking boy next door, and life for the Gadsby family takes a turn for the even more chaotic. Blue poignantly captures her family’s trials and tribulations from fragmented to fully dysfunctional to ultimately reunited, in a sequence of film transcripts and diary entries that will make you cry, laugh, and give thanks for the gift of families.

With the charm of The Penderwicks and the poignancy of When You Reach Me, Natasha Farrant's After Iris is a story that will stay with readers long after the last page.

Top Ten is an original feature/weekly meme created here at

The Broke and the Bookish that features a great bookish top ten every week.

Today is Top Ten Beach Reads. Beach reads confuse me but I understand they are short, sweet, and fun.. I like a little fun, mystery, romance, and a few laughs. 


Top Ten Beach Reads for 2013

1. This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J. Cavanaugh

2. The Summer I Became a Nerd by Leah Rae Miller

3. Fairy Godmother's Inc. By Jenniffer Wardell

4.  any of the Dead is Series by Marlene Perez

5. The Best Night of our (Pathetic) Life by Tara Altebrando

6. In Honor by Jessi Kirby

7. any of the Hundred Oaks series by Miranda Kenneally

8. Poison by Bridget Zinn 

9.  Also Known As by Robin Benway 

10.  The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington

Whats is on your list?