Stacking the Shelves #227 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. For Review:  The Weekly Wrap-Up! Sunday 06/11/2017: Stacking the Shelves #226 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!  Monday 06/12/17:  Review- Want by Cindy Pon Tuesday 06/13/17: Top Ten Best/Worst Dads in YA!  Wednesday 06/14/17: Waiting on Wednesday: The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta Thursday 06/15/2017:  Review:…

Book to Movie: The Girl on the Train

R, 112 minutes Release Date: October 7, 2016 A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. Director: Tate Taylor Writers: Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay), Paula Hawkins (based on the novel by) Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson. (From IMDB) *MY THOUGHTS*       To…

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

ARC, 3391 pages Release Date: May 9, 2017 Published by: Balzer + Bray Read from: June 1- 4, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, LGBTQ- Bisexual, Own Voices, YA      Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever.     Since then, it’s been Ramona and her family…

Want by Cindy Pon

ARC, 323 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: Simon Pulse Read from: June 4-11 , 2017 Want, #1 Source: TxLA  For fans of: Sci-Fi, YA      From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city. …

Stacking the Shelves #226 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. For Review:  Dramatically Ever After by Isabel Bandeira Lost Boy by Christina Henry The Weekly Wrap-Up! Sunday 06/04/2017: Stacking the Shelves #225 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!  Monday 06/05/17:  Review- Once and For All by Sarah Dessen Tuesday 06/06/17: Top Ten…

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

e-ARC, 384 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: St. Martin’s Griffin Stand-alone Source: Publisher For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Adult, Take Me Away After Dark      When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly…

Listen Up: Bang by Barry Lyga

I don’t normally talk about the audio books I listen to because most of them are backlist, but I really want to start! So, I’m starting Listen Up to write short reviews on the books that I listen to!  Audio, 6 parts Release Date: April 18, 2017 Published by: Little Brown Books for Young Readers / Blackstone…

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