Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

Here are the rules:
1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"Back home her dad has disappeared into what he deemed the study, no doubt arranging his over-the-top collection of books (he had over a thousand of them and hadn't been willing to toss even one, much to her mom's despair) in alphabetical order on the sagging, built-in shelves. An obsession with their books was one of the things Maggie and her dad had in common." Kindle location 6%*

*Quote comes from my ARC copy, therefore it and its location are not final.

TITLE: The Vanishing Season
AUTHOR: Jodi Lynn Anderson
PUBLISHER: HarperTeen
GENRE: Mystery YA
RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list  that one of our bloggers here at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

This week's topic is: Top Ten "Gateway" Books/Authors In My Reading Journey

(so your list could be a mix of a books that got you into reading, an author that got you into reading a genre you never thought you'd read, a book that brought you BACK into read)

*in no particular order

 1. Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes--my first vampire book, but certainly not the last!

2. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead--the book that brought me back to YA after a dry spell, this was around the time Paranormal YA was in its beginning stages and right before book 4 published

3. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder--my first fantasy-esque book and oh how I LOVED it!

4. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling--my first book with a boy as the main character

5. Intertwined by Gena Showalter--another first with a male protagonist, this time in the paranormal genre!

6. Stray by Rachel Vincent--one of the first books I bought from the romance section at Borders and learned that they just shelve random UF books there!

7. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa--among the first books I won! Those first wins included books 1 & 2 of Julie's series and books 1 & 2 of Gena Showalter's Intertwined series!

8. Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin--first ARC received from a blogging pal! Still upset that the sequel always got pushed back and still doesn't seem to be available

9. Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder--first ARC received from the author!

10. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison--one of my first adult paranormal reads! (although technically I started reading book 2, got a couple of pages in before realizing I was missing a whole book's worth of info!)

Once again, I'll remind you to check out my contest to win one of Maria V. Snyder's books SIGNED!! Click here to enter.