Title: The Wedding PeopleAuthor: Alison Espach Genre: Literary FictionPublished On: July 30, 2024Publisher: Henry HoltSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 384 Synopsis: A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help us start anew. It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe …
ARC Book Review | Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Title: Slow DanceAuthor: Rainbow Rowell Genre: Adult FictionPublished On: July 30, 2024Publisher: William MorrowSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 496 Synopsis: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting …
June AND July 2024 Monthly Wrap-Up & Book Haul
Hello Readers! Did you think I’d disappeared??!! I’m here, just not reading or blogging as much right now. Which is why I’ve combined my June and July Wrap-Up posts. I finished reading absolutely nothing in June. I was VERY close, but didn’t make it. My youngest graduated high school, and June was full of all …
ARC Book Review | Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North
Title: Rules for Second ChancesAuthor: Maggie North Genre: Contemporary RomancePublished On: June 25, 2024Publisher: St. Martin’s GriffinSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 346 Synopsis: Liz Lewis has tried everything to be what people want, but sheβs alwaysbeen labeled different in the boisterous world of wilderness expeditions.Her marriage to popular adventure guide Tobin Renner-Lewis isa sinkhole of toxic positivity where …
My Summer 2024 Book HookUp Unboxing
After visiting New York, my husband gifted me a subscription to The Strand’s The Book HookUp. We’d visited New York City for the first time at Christmas in 2018, stopping in at The Strand bookstore, of course, so it was the perfect gift. What I love about this subscription is that it’s quarterly, so not …
ARC Book Review | The Calculation of You and Me by Serena Kaylor
Title: The Calculation of You and MeAuthor: Serena Kaylor Genre: Young Adult RomancePublished On: June 18, 2024Publisher: Wednesday BooksSource: digitalPages: 297 Synopsis: A calculus nerd enlists her surly classmateβs help to win back her ex-boyfriend, but when sparks start to fly, she realizes thereβs no algorithm for falling in love. Marlowe Meadows understands a lot of …
ARC Book Review | Right Where We Left Us by Jen Devon
Title: Right Where We Left UsAuthor: Jen DevonGenre: RomancePublished On: June 18, 2024Publisher: St. Martin’s GriffinSource: digitalPages: 359 Synopsis: Temperance Jean Madigan and Duncan Brady have never gotten it right. After one radiant, secret summer together when they were eighteen, theyβve been on-again off-again ever since. Now, despite red-hot chemistry and TJβs closeness with Duncanβs …
Paperback Release Blog Tour | Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie
Title: NightbloomAuthor: Peace Adzo Medie Genre: FictionPublished On: June 13, 2023Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: digitalPages: 353 Synopsis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 ‘Remarkable’ Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters’ Street Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reeseβs Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel about the unbreakable power of female …
ARC Book Review | Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
Title: Devil Is FineAuthor: John VercherGenre: Literary Fiction Published On: June 18, 2024Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: digitalPages: 288 Synopsis: From acclaimed novelist John Vercher, a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past Reeling from the sudden death of his …
Top Ten Tuesday: My (Hopeful) Summer 2024 TBR
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books on My Summer 2024 To-Read List! Hello Readers! Welllll, I didn’t get time to make a June TBR, so when I saw this was …