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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature started by Breaking the Spine that puts the spotlight on upcoming releases! This week’s book is: Stay Sweet RELEASING APRIL 24TH, 2018! Synopsis A summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream. Summer in Sand Lake isn’t complete without a trip to Meade Creamery—the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while… Read More
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature started by Breaking the Spine that puts the spotlight on upcoming releases! This week’s book is: Come from Away Releasing April 24th, 2018! Synopsis From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships… Read More
It’s April, so that means it’s time for my March wrap-up! For me, March was a pretty great month. It was my birthday on the 29th, and while I didn’t read quite as many books as I would have hoped, I still read a fairly good amount. My blog did really well in March, too! Altogether, I read five books in the month of March! BOOKS READ – The Choosing by… Read More
Title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote Pages: 162 Genres: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories Published by: Modern Library (Jan. 13th, 1994, originally 1958) Summary It’s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany’s. And nice girls don’t, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker,… Read More
It’s Top Ten Tuesday again! It’s a weekly bookish list hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week’s topic is: Characters I Liked in Books I Didn’t Like This week was a hard one for me, because of that, it’s only going to be a top five today. For one thing, usually if I don’t like the characters, it’s the biggest reason why I don’t like a book. For another thing, honestly, there are… Read More
Title: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia (publication order) #1) by C. S. Lewis Pages: 206 Genres: Children’s, Fantasy, Classic Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (Mar. 5th, 2002, originally Oct. 16th, 1950) Summary They open a door and enter a world NARNIA…the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy…the place where the adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe… Read More
Hey everyone! In honor of Wonder Week, I thought it’d be fun to play a game with you guys on my blog today. I’m calling it Guess That Book: Emoji Edition, and the idea is pretty simple. Each row of emojis describes a different book, and it’s up to you to make your guesses in the comments! Alright, let’s get started! Popular YA Novels 1. 🙎🏽☀️✈️🌧️🙎🏽❤️🧛🏼♂️ ⚾️ ⚡️ 🧛🏼♂️🧛🏼♀️🧛🏾♂️🏃🏽♀️🏃🏼✈️🧛🏼♂️🙎🏽🧛🏼♂️🏥💑💃🏽🕺🏼💑 2. 🙋🏽♀️ 👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫🏟👊🏼🏹🏹🏹⚔️😵😵💀💀💀😵💀🥖😵💀😵💀😭😭😭😭🏆🙍🏽🙍🏽♂️ 3…. Read More
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature started by Breaking the Spine that puts the spotlight on upcoming releases! This week’s book is: Emergency Contact Releasing March 27th, 2018! Synopsis For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how… Read More
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