Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on Girl on a Wire by Gwenda Bond, which has an expected release date of October 1, 2014. A ballerina, twirling on a wire high above the crowd. Horses, prancing like salsa dancers....
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now. Maybe that was always besides the point. Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas,...
Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about). This week’s featured book is How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True by Sarah Strohmeyer. From Sarah Strohmeyer, author of Smart Girls Get What They Want, comes this romantic comedy...
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. As always,...
The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots...
Happy Canada Day! I can’t believe it’s July already! I tend to associate this month with trips to the beach, so I’m looking forward to relaxing in the sand with some of these new releases. As always, if you’re interested in one of the books, click on its cover image to be taken to its Goodreads page. July...
Before I started book blogging, I wasn’t really exposed to that much hype surrounding new releases. Sure, there were books like The Hunger Games that seemed to reinvent YA fiction, but if it wasn’t a New York Times bestseller that my library ordered in, I wasn’t likely to know that it existed. Now, however, my wishlist is overflowing...
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit...
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. As always,...
For as long as she can remember, Wren Gray’s goal has been to please her parents. But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now… not so much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn’t even know what they...