Teaser Tuesday: Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis and The Lonely Hearts Crime Club by Tanya Bullock

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Books and a Beat. Bloggers choose two 

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

Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
 

With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.

Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.

Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.

From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son's request that she buy a necklace to "be like the other moms," Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.

Teaser: 

I am not glamorous, I am 1,000 percent one of the nerdiest people you're likely to meet. If I've somehow managed to convince you others because I run a lifestyle website with pretty picture or because my hair looks extra shiny on instagra sometimes, well, sister, let me set you straight. I am not a perfect wife, not a perfect mother, not a perfect friend or boss, and most definitely not a perfect Christian. Not. Even. Close. I'm not perfect at anything I do- well, except for making and eating dishes that are primarily cheese-based- but the other stuff, the life stuff? Oh girl, I am struggling.

Jenn's:

The Lonely Hearts Crime Club by Tanya Bullock
 

An elderly resident of an inner-city tower block is brutally attacked and left for dead. Her neighbours, a pregnant alcoholic, a vulnerable youth, a failed actress and a cameraman with a dark secret, are thrown together in their search for answers. Misfits and loners, they are forced to confront uncomfortable realities about themselves and each other, as their investigation leads them towards the shocking finale.

Teaser: 
In some remote sense, she was aware of the changes to her physical surroundings; the walls closing in, the blurring and dimming of the television, the shrinking of her living room. She saw her hands dancing clumsily in the air, glimpsed the plate of biscuits falling inexplicably slowly from her lap to the floor, heard the distorted, high-pitched barking of a dog... her dog?