As my incredibly long to-read list will tell you, this August is a great month for book releases. Here are the ones that I’m looking forward to reading. As always, if you’re interested in one of the books, click on its cover image to be taken to its Goodreads page. August 1 August 6 August 13 August 15...
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WWW Wednesday (July 31)
WWW Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. To participate, answer the following three questions: 1. What are you currently reading? 2. What did you recently finish reading? 3. What do you think you’ll read next? Here are my answers: Currently Reading: I’m currently reading The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) by Patrick...
Waiting on Wednesday (July 31)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week’s release that I’m (not so) patiently awaiting is Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke, which has an expected publication date of August 15. You stop fearing the devil when you’re...
ARC Review: Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper
Leave it to Maryah Woodsen to break the one rule that will screw up eternity: Never erase your memories. Before entering this life, Maryah did the unthinkable—she erased. Now, at seventeen years old, she’s clueless that her new adoptive family has known her for centuries, that they are perpetually reincarnated souls, and that they have supernatural abilities. Oh,...
Teaser Tuesday (July 30)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week’s teaser comes from Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper. Leave it to Maryah Woodsen to break the one rule that will screw up eternity: Never erase...
Top Ten Beginnings/Endings
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme created and hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week she posts an idea for relating to books, and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own “top ten” list. This week’s topic is top ten beginnings/endings in books. Both of these are incredibly important: one is the...
Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale...
Book Review: The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks’s pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true – and how will you survive? I can’t believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew...
FAQs
I’ve received a few messages from readers asking me questions about myself and The In-Between Place. Since a few of the questions were asked on multiple occasions, I decided to answer them all in one post. Why did you start blogging? I love reading. I never travel anywhere without a book, and I’m always looking for recommendations. Unfortunately,...
Saturday Showcase (July 27)
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 A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray. A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique...