Monday, May 31, 2021

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros/Teaser Tuesdays - June 1st



It's Tuesday!  It's time to share your excerpts and teasers from books we are currently reading, have read or are planning to read.  So, feel free to join us by sharing the first paragraph or (a few) of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon.  This meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR :)



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I, also, participate and link up to Teaser Tuesdays.  Here's info about that meme:

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, now being hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. 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 TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



I'm halfway through this one and loving it. I don't even know how to knit and I'm enjoying it.  It is being released tomorrow.  The excerpts are from the E-ARC.



First Chapter... 

"So it's more than 'yarn'?" the young woman staring at my shop sign asked.  "The letters... stand for something?"  She didn't stare at the single word.  Instead, I could tell she was wondering about the periods after each letter.

My big wooden shop sign is one of the things I love most about Y.A.R.N.  


Teaser...

I gave her a moment to take it all in.  "Welcome to Y.A.R.N., Caroline.  I'm Libby Beckett."  I gestured around the shop.  Every wall is covered with stacked square cubbies holding all kinds of yarn.
 
Synopsis from Goodreads:

For Libby Beckett, opening her charming yarn shop, and introducing customers to the joys of knitting and crochet, is the work she was meant to do. Until the yarn she loves is used for murder....

Libby has come home to Collinstown, Maryland to live her dream and open her own yarn shop, aptly named Y.A.R.N., along the Chester River. To Libby, Y.A.R.N. stands for You're Absolutely Ready Now. But the acronym changes whenever inspiration strikes, and customers add to the list of suggestions that fill the blackboard wall in a shop stuffed with color, fiber, and comfort.

Libby is thrilled when she lands famous Norwegian knitting celebrity Perle Langager for a series of events at Y.A.R.N. Libby's English bulldog, Hank, has been modeling one of Perle's doggie sweaters, and customers just can't wait to see Perle in action. The mayor of Collinstown even decrees a Collinstown Yarn Day to celebrate. But once Perle arrives in town, she seems distracted and on edge. And when she's found strangled with a skein of red yarn, Libby knows she has to solve a knotty mystery before her new life unravels.

What do you think? Would you keep reading?




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