WAITING ON WEDNESDAY

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's WoW selection is...

Genre: Contemporary Young Adult

Publisher: Viking Juvenile

Publication Date: 6/4/13

 

 

 

Emaline works at her family's vacation rental company the summer before she leaves for college. She must confront her values, goals and choices as her relationship with city-boy Theo evolves and she's forced to say goodbye to the beach town where she grew up.
 

 

 

Why I'm Waiting ~ Sarah Dessen. Is there any other reason? I love her books, and I love this cover. I love the transformative journey her heroines always experience. AND...this releases on my BIRTHDAY. Wahoo!


You can preorder The Moon and More at:
Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble 

What are you waiting on this week?

       

In My Mailbox, #24

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren. It is a great way to put a spotlight on books received during the past week.

For Review:

Social Suicide (Deadly Cool, #2) by Gemma Halliday (Thanks to Harper Pub)

Because of Low, by Abbi Glines (Thanks to Abbi Glines)

Received in Trade:

Lock and Key, by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You, by Sarah Dessen

Purchased:

Overprotected, by Jennifer Laurens

Fallen in Love (Fallen, #3.5) by Lauren Kate

Thanks for stopping by! 

Teaser Tuesday

aser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as following:

·Grab your current read
·Open to a random page
·Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
·Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others.

Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles.

This week's Teaser is from

Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong. Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help,maybe Annabel can face what happened
the night she and Sophie stopped being friends. ~From GoodReads

 My Teaser ~

"Instead, from where I was crouched on the ground, the green of the grass filling my vision, the first thing I made out were the hands, a flat silver ring on the middle finger of each. One was clutching my notes. The other was reaching out for me." (pg. 88)

Hardcover, 383 pages

Published April 6th 2006 by Viking Juvenile

You can purchase Just Listen at:

Amazon  |  Book Depository  |  Barnes & Noble 

A Letter Review ~ The Truth About Forever, by Sarah Dessen

Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She's stuck with a dull-as-dishwater job at the library. And she'll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father's recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother's open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes—artistic, insightful, and understanding Wes—who gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it.
~From GoodReads

Dear Sarah Dessen,

Where have you been my whole life??!!

Seriously, this is one of those "it's not you, it was me" situations. I've spent the last several years reading almost only young adult/adult paranormal books. I thought a Contemporary Young Adult book couldn't possibly hold my attention. I needed the fang, the venom, the curses and spells and, well, you know what I mean, right?

But after years of looking at your books and thinking "Looks good, too bad it's not my type", I took what thousands have been saying about your books to heart, and I took a chance. I am so happy I finally wised up. I loved each and every character in this book: Bert, and Kristy, and Delia and Monica (Donneven), Macy and Wes. The Truth About Forever was beautiful, wistful, poignant, life-affirming... I could keep going, but you've heard all of this before. You're Sarah-freaking-Dessen!

If your other books are half as brilliant as The Truth About Forever, consider me a fan for life. I'm buying all of your books ASAP. Thank you. Thank you for writing books about endearing, slightly broken, charming, wonderful characters.  Books that I will be so happy to share with my daughter one day (b/c really, I am not letting her read the Night Huntress books, uh-uh).

I guess what I'm trying to say, in my own rambling way, is The Truth About Forever was amazing.

Thank you,
Andrea, a passionate reader

Favorite Quote:

"We sat there, looking at each other. It was warm out, the fireflies sparkling around us, and he was
  close to me, his knee and mine only inches apart. I had a flash of how his hand had felt earlier, his
  fingers closing over mine, and for one crazy second I thought everything could change, right now, if
  only I could let it. If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him.
 Nothing would have stopped me." ~pg. 246

You can purchase The Truth About Forever at:
Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Amazon

Teaser Tuesday #30

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as following:

·Grab your current read

       ·Open to a random page
      ·Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
      ·Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others.

Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles.

This week's Teaser is from

Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She's stuck with a dull-as-dishwater job at the library. And she'll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father's recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother's open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes—artistic, insightful, and understanding Wes—who gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it.
~From GoodReads

My Teaser:

"This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And
  with Wes right there, holding the door open for me, as I walked out into the light." pg 276


I have spent so many years reading soley paranormal books. I feel so silly that this is the first of Sarah Dessen's books I've read. It, for sure, will not be the last.

You can purchase The Truth About Forever at:
Barnes & Noble  |  Book Depository  |  Amazon