Taste Testing Tuesdays

Good morning (or whatever time it is where you are), everyone!

Welcome to another installment of Taste Testing Tuesdays here at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers! Taste Testing Tuesdays was inspired by 'Teaser Tuesdays', a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

On the menu this week...a book that I'm both enjoying AND on the fence about.  The final verdict?  That remains to be seen....BUT there are many laughable moments and smile worthy scenes which of course warrant a share on this day of teasers!
Ready...set...GO!

The Very First Bite
by
Cynthia Langston

Instead of the wonder-pancakes, I decide to eat the rest of the tub of cottage cheese for breakfast.  There's a leftover chicken breast, which I can have for lunch with some salad, and maybe some lasagna for dinner - with zucchini strips instead of pasta.  This all sounds very healthy and delicious on the surface, but I'm telling you right now, I'd sell my left book on the black market for a blueberry muffin and a bowl of Cocoa Puffs.
-- pg 142-143

LOL!
Now, to set the scene straight here....she's cycling through diets and has landed on the Atkins "all meat, no/low carb" plan that many have both had success AND failure with.  She's trying to stay on the bandwagon but needless to say, the carbs are calling.  Will she prevail or will she fall victim to their flour filled cries?  We shall see...just passed the halfway point in the book, so final verdict should be coming soon.  Stay tuned...

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So...what book are you lost in this week?

Oh come on...just a little tease?

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

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Until next time...happy reading!

Unicorn Thinks He's Great by Bob Shea

Hi guys!

Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers...the place that neither sun, nor rain, nor the ever fun summer cold can stop me from sharing the bookish love with you!  

Yes, that's right.  I have a summer cold.  Let me tell you, if you've never had one...you are SO lucky because in a word, they SUCK.  No really.  It's hot as you-know-where outside and you're all freezing to death and then hot and then sneezing and coughing and just...blech.  Can't say I'd recommend it and I'll be most pleased when it is gone.  *humpf*  Now, enough about my nasal drainage, it's time to explore the pages of something magically delicious!

Today's selection comes to us right off the truck...no really, I was sorting the shipment of new arrivals to the store, saw this one, and had to take a few moments at lunch to explore it's rainbow-esque cover.  If the title doesn't get your attention, the cover art certainly will and the story...well, I'll let you decide.  Ready to read all about it?  Today's book of choice is...

Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great

by

Bob Shea

I'm not kidding.
Allow yourself time to chuckle.  Go Ahead.  I'll wait.
Better?  Yeah, that's what YOU think.

The yucks and gaffaws are a mile a minute as we learn what Goat sees as the pros and cons of having this new rainbows and glitter guy in the neighborhood.  Simple but magical pictures help tell the HI-larious story all about what happens when you give others a chance to show their true colors and not simply judge them by their cover.  In this case, it'd be easy to see why Goat is jealous of Unicorn initially, but things aren't always as they seem.  It's another grass is greener on the other side tale with a twist...because as illustrated here, it's always greener to the OTHER person, until you pop your head above the fence and discuss things with your neighbor.

I can't say there was a downside to this one at all as I enjoyed every written line and was delighted visually with every turn of the page, but one of my FAVORITE scenes is when they team up for some "clovin' justice" with an end result of someone having been "unicorned".  Trust me.  It's funny.  Little ones will get into the two sided affair and be rooting for them both by book's end.  Older readers will delight in the message as well as the illustrations because really, how can you go wrong with unicorns?

This title is set to be released by Disney Hyperion next week so get yourself a pre-order of it or be on the look out for it on a bookstore shelf near you!  You won't regret it.

Until next time...happy reading!

Happy Father's Day...now, READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Hi guys!

Welcome back to the place that aims to please the reader in you from age I-just-learned-what-a-book-is to what-a-second-I-remember-those....Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today is FATHER'S DAY...in case you were unaware; consider this your reminder to run out and pick up something (or send an eGift card) STAT if you haven't already for the father figure in your life.  We began speaking of father figures last week in a great interview with author Toni Buzzeo; if you missed out, be sure to click on over for a heart warming moment or two AND get entered to win a SIGNED copy of her latest release, Just Like My Papa!  We continue the reminiscing today with a fiction novel based on the life of a great mind known the world over.  Whether a student of philosophy or of the school of life, this little gem may work its magic on you and given the title/focus, I felt today an appropriate day to shine a little light on this recent release.  Without further adieu, today's book spotlight shines for....

Plato:  Letters to My Son

by

Neel Burton

About the book...

An eagle’s old age is better than the youth of a sparrow. —Greek proverb 

My doctor tells me that, at last, I am dying. The time has come for me to write, or, rather, dictate these letters to you. I pray that I might remain lucid for long enough to finish the task and ask that you forgive any lapses in my memory or reason. I propose not so much to counsel you as to furnish you with an account of my life and thought; not the impersonal and incomplete fabrication that you or anyone might piece together from my books, but the real account–in so far as there could ever be such a thing. For all the man and the god that I have found in you, I do not, and cannot, expect your tender years to tease out my every accent and every nuance, and I am writing as much to account myself to you as to account myself to myself. 

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About the author...

Neel Burton was born in 1978 in Curepipe, Mauritius to a Mauritian father and a Zanzibari mother, and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.  From 1996 to 2002, he studied medicine and neuroscience in London.  He then moved to Paris, where he worked as a strategy consultant and, later, as an English teacher. In 2003, he returned to medicine and the UK, and, in 2004, went up to Oxford to specialize in psychiatry, whilst simultaneously reading for a Master’s in philosophy in the University of London.

He currently lives and teaches in Oxford.

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One can only imagine what lies between these pages...unless of course you pick up a copy and then, well...you can totally share your experience with all of us!  ^_^  

Special thanks to Matthew at Electric Reads for the chance to participate in this promotion.  (THANKS!)  For more information on this title as well as those tours upcoming, be sure to visit them online, like them on Facebook, or follow along on Twitter.

Until next time...happy reading!