Teaser Tuesday: blending in with the crowd

TEASER TUESDAYSis hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading and asks you to:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! Here goes:

The fact was that Edward did not love his school, but no one bothered him there. At Eastbrook Junior High School, Edward Meopian was not a wallflower but more like a hearty, imperceptible weed.

This great teaser is from Christopher Meeks’ novel The Brightest Moon of the Century. It’s on only the second page of the first chapter/story in the novel. Edward’s widowed father is threatening to send his son to the McCory School, a private boys’ school; Edward is opposed to the idea, since he likes the way he blends in with the crowd at Eastbrook.

The novel has an on-sale date of March 7, but I happen to know that you can order it now. If you were intrigued by my review of Months and Seasons, or read all the positive press about The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea, get yourself to a bookstore and order The Brightest Moon of the Century. Now.

Tell me, did you stand out from the masses in school, or were you more content to blend in? I was definitely a “no waves on the surface” kind of student – good grades, decent outward conduct … but, like an iceberg, you never knew what lay beneath the waters!

Melissa

February 24th, 2009 at 9:41 am

That is a great teaser! I’m going to have to check that book out.

avisannschild

February 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

I love this teaser too! I was also a blending-in type in school.

zibilee

February 24th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

I absolutely loved this book! By the end, I had quite a crush on Edward. Great character creation and development in this one.

MizB

February 25th, 2009 at 7:00 am

I was definitely more of a “blend in” kind of gal in school… I was always sucking up to the teachers, got decent grades (not great, but not awful, either), and didn’t get into too much trouble.
Was never part of the “in” crowd, either. And, while that bothered me, then, I now think that it’s probably a good thing that I was such a wallflower.