Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Waiting On Wednesday #47!!


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine  that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

What book I'm excited to get my hands on this week? Landline by Rainbow Rowell!



Goodreads Summary:

"Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now.

Maybe that was always besides the point.

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her.

When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.

That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts . . .

Is that what she’s supposed to do?

Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?"


Why am I eagerly awaiting Landline? Well, Rainbow Rowell is one of my auto-buy list after reading and loving both Fangirl and Eleanor & Park! Though given my emotional state & situation right now, I'm not so sure this will be the right book for me right now!

What are you all (im)patiently awaiting this week?

Monday, December 9, 2013

Mark This Book Monday: Mini Review for The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett!

This week I'm starting Mark This Book Monday with a mini review for a small book in size but big in content and enjoyment!


The Uncommon ReaderThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book really is a little gem. The bf found it during one of our bookstore expeditions and I claimed it to read first.

It is a short book, so it is a quick read but it is not a book you read flying through the pages. It is more of a slow read, smiling here and there and enjoying the critiques and satire here and there even if it falls to some stereotypes on occasion with the choices of books and what defines them as good or bad or even mored readable or not. That could also be part of the intention of the book, but was the one cliche that I wasn't too happy about.

Recommended for everyone, but more in particular to all those bookworms out there that get odd looks for keeping their noses in a book.



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