Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Here are the rules if you want to play along:

• 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!

This week’s teaser comes from When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips.

For years, I tried not to think about Highfield Manor. The pompous rise of its granite walls, the secrets hidden in its stone-cold shadows. The dark veil of cedars shrouding the school from the outside world. But still the memories fester in me, real as a disease.

This is another book for a GoodReads challenge. Just starting it today!

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is:

Ten (or Eight) Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make

This is such a fun topic! So creative! I had a good time coming up with these and wish that they were all actual candles I could buy.

1. The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern: This book has so many smells in it. For this candle, I will have it smell like a bonfire or campfire, with hits of cinnamon and caramel, just to catch that carnival feel. I would also make it either black or a very dark red.
2. The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst: The main character in this book makes a lot of jam, so this candle would be a mixture of berries, maybe blackberry, raspberry and strawberry. The color would be a lighter reddish-purple.
3. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon: This book takes place in a rural, wooded area during a very cold winter. I would want to have it smell very fresh, with some nice pine and fir scents, along with that crisp, clean scent used when they make those water-themed candles (I don’t know what it’s called, but I love those). The color would be a very light blue with dark green embeds in it, maybe even pieces of pine in the candle itself.
4. The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith: This one is a no brainer, since this book takes place mostly in a vineyard. This candle would smell like a a deep merlot and have a color to match.
5. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow: I actually have a candle from a local shop that is called “Local Library” and I think that scent would work for the atmosphere of this book, at least in the beginning when January lives with Mr. Locke. It has notes of leather, cedar and sandalwood and would be a light brown or tan color.
6. Heartless by Marissa Meyer: I had to find a book to do something bakery themed, and since Catherine’s dream is to open a bakery, this would be perfect. One of her specialities is a pumpkin cake, so this candle would be pumpkin spice with vanilla buttercream. Definitely an orange candle, maybe with swirls of cream.
7. Beauty by Robin McKinley: Since this is a “Beauty and the Beast” retelling, it would of course smell like roses. Maybe with just a hint of musk behind it, to make things interesting. This candle will, of course, be red.
8. The Change by Kirsten Miller: One of the ladies in this book has a beautiful, wild garden (and a strange magic power to make things grow). This candle would smell like a mixture of wildflowers and some herbs, like rosemary. It would be a vibrant green.

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Please leave your teasers and top tens in comments!

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