Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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!

"As she walked, she touched the trees one by one as if she were marking the path, as if her handprints left glowing traces on the bark.  She felt a little guilty because she had lied to the huntress, and she wondered if the huntress had known, for Ash had not been lost that day."

p. 135 Ash by Malinda Lo

Makers, set sometime in the near future, explores how technology, creativity and business will continue to shape and change our lives.  Suzanne Church, a journalist, has seen it all , the fall of the automobile companies in Detroit;the dot com boom and bust; and most recently the merger of Kodak and Duracell whose products have become obsolete, but their processes and infrastructure are still valuable products to people like Landon Kettlewell.  Kettlewell has a vision to use Kodacell, Kodak and Duracell's merged name, infrastructure to support small start-ups and make it possible for them to thrive.  Enter Perry and Lester who are creative and intelligent with great ideas, but lack the business skills to make a living.  Kodacell supports them and their products while Suzanne reports on the new businesses of Kodacell and others know as the New Work Movement.  As New Work grows, changes and even fails the cast of characters experience a variety of emotions which the reader can't help but feel if they are able to look beyond the tech jargon.

Makers  is not only the story of these young entrepreneurs as they explore their dreams, it is a commentary on the future of corporate America, journalism, technology's effect on society and even the American Dream.

Cory Doctorow, the author, is a tech blogger and has written a young adult novel, Little Brother.  The appeal of Doctorow's two novels is the discussibiltiy and geek factor.  Readers might get bogged down in the tech jargon, but if they get beyond that the ideas presented are thought provoking and interesting.  Makers might appeal to readers of Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent and some of his novels dealing with the development of South Florida.

Rating: 3.5

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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!

"A drop of my sweat from my forehead splashes on the blade and the knife is just a knife again, just a tool, just a piece of metal in my hand.

Just a knife."

p. 341 The Knife of Never Letting Go  by Patrick Ness

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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 don't know.  How can you know?  How can Ben and Cillian have expected me to be prepared for this?  Sure, the idea of a bed and hot food sounds like something worth getting shot for but maybe its a trick and we're being so stupid we serve to get caught."

p. 149 The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog, Distracted Musician (you would insert my blog here), and Storytime with Tonya and Friends
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.



The amp, speakers, and A/V switcher were all missing from her home theater.

p. 56 Makers by Cory Doctorow