Waiting on Wednesday is going on hiatus

I'm thinking about giving up WOW for a while, at least for this week. I find that if I can sit down and pound out a month's worth at a time, then I'm OK, but it's really hard for me to find time to sit down and do WOW one week at a time. 

Plus, I'm finding that I'm waiting for most of what everyone else is waiting for--that is, I'm not coming up with unique titles to bring to your attention. I feel like I'm saying "Yeah, I want to read this too!" Basically I'm not finding it that fun anymore.

But who knows? I'll have some time this weekend so maybe I'll be able to get some more posted!

Does anyone have an opinion?

Enjoy your reading!

Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle.


Summary from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Laurel's world changes instantly when her parents and brother are killed in a terrible car accident. Behind the wheel is the father of her bad-boy neighbor, David Kaufman, whose mother is also killed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laurel navigates a new reality in which she and her best friend grow apart, boys may or may not be approaching her out of pity, overpowering memories lurk everywhere, and Mr. Kaufman is comatose but still very much alive. Through it all, there is David, who swoops in and out of Laurel's life and to whom she finds herself attracted against her better judgment. She will forever be connected to him by their mutual loss, a connection that will change them both in unexpected ways. 

Fans of emotionally true and heartfelt stories, such as Sarah Dessen's THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER and IF I STAY by Gayle Forman, will fall in love with Jennifer Castle’s incandescent debut novel...a heart wrenching, surprisingly witty testament to how drastically life can change in the span of a single moment.

I have actually have already read this book (thank you, NetGalley!), but it has made such an impression on me that I'm keeping it on my WOW for this week. I am waiting for its official release so that I can make sure everyone I know reads it!


The Beginning of After is scheduled to be released on September 6 by HarperTeen. My review will be posted tomorrow, so be sure to stop back!


What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for Every You, Every Me by David Levithan.

Summary from Goodreads:

In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs—some of which feature him. Someone is stalking him . . . messing with him . . . threatening him. Worse, ever since his best friend Ariel has been gone, he's been unable to sleep, spending night after night torturing himself for his role in her absence. And as crazy as it sounds, Evan's starting to believe it's Ariel that's behind all of this, punishing him. But the more Evan starts to unravel the mystery, the more his paranoia and insomnia amplify, and the more he starts to unravel himself. Creatively told with black-and-white photos interspersed between the text so the reader can see the photos that are so unnerving to Evan, Every You, Every Me is a one-of-a-kind departure from a one-of-a-kind author.

Um, can David Levithan do no wrong? Is it any wonder why I take pictures of the back of his head? This just sounds like an awesomely horrific read, and I cannot wait for it. It's expected September 13 from Knopf.


What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight—at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.

Um, chocolate AND coffee are illegal? Out of all the scary books I've read. this theory seems the scariest. :) Seriously, this sounds like a fantastic read and I can't wait for us. It's expected  September 27th 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for You Against Me by Jenny Downham.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother’s accused of a terrible crime but says he didn’t do it, you defend him, don’t you? 

When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is charged with the offence, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide.This is a brave and unflinching novel from the bestselling author of Before I Die. It’s a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all it’s a book about love.

I have been waiting for this book FOREVER. I had it on my to-read list way before it's first release in December 2010, and could not figure out why I couldn't get my hands on it. Turns out it was released in the UK then, and we won't get it until September 13th, 2011, from David Fickling Books. I suppose I could order a UK edition, but that seems like cheating to me. So I will wait patiently. Anyway, I loved Before I Die and think that I'll love this one, too!


What are you waiting for? 
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Midsummer's Eve Giveaway!

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 

This week I'm waiting for The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

She's wrong.

Another 2011 Debut Author, and another incredible cover! Early reviews have been positive, and I cannot wait to get into this story!

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is scheduled to be released on September 27th, 2011, by Simon & Schuster.

What are you waiting for?

Enjoy your reading!

Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for Hooked by Catherine Greenman.

Summary from Goodreads:

Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of herself. With a flighty club-owner mom and a standoffish, recovering-alcoholic dad, Thea has made her own way in her hometown of New York, attending the prestigious and competitive Stuyvesant High School. But one chat with Will, a handsome and witty senior, and she's a goner—completely hooked on him and unable to concentrate on anything else. 

Always worried that she loves Will more than he loves her, Thea is pleasantly surprised when their romance weathers his move to college and Will goes out of his way to involve her in his life. But then, Thea misses a period. And that starts Thea and Will on a wild ride that neither of them could have possibly prepared for. When they decide to keep the baby, their concerned parents chip in what they can to keep Will in school and give both teenagers a comfortable place to raise their child. But when a freak accident leaves Thea shaken and threatens to upend their little family altogether, Thea is forced to turn to the last place she would have chosen for comfort: her stiff, uncompromising father. 

This smart, touching first novel brims with realistic, beautifully drawn characters, and reminds us that love is never as easy or predictable as we might like it to be. 

Yay! Another 2011 Debut Author! I think this sounds like a great first novel and I can't wait to read it. I'm dying to know what the freak accident is! Hooked is scheduled to be released on August 9 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers.


Oh, and a note on the cover: I never, for one second, looked that cute when I was pregnant. I went right from normal-size to "Holy crap look how fat she is!" in, like, four seconds. I didn't have a teenage pregnancy, so I'm sure that's the only reason. :)


What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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This week I'm waiting for And Then Things Fall Apart by Arlaina Tibesnky.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

Keek is not having a good summer. She and her boyfriend have just had their Worst Fight Ever (on the subject of her virginity, nonetheless), she’s been betrayed by a best friend, her parents are splitting up, and her mother is on the other side of the country tending to Keek’s newborn cousin, who may or may not make it home from the hospital. Oh, and Keek’s holed up at her grandmother’s technology-barren house with an abysmal case of the chicken pox. In Keek’s words, “Sofa king annoying.” 

With her world collapsing around her, Keek’s only solace comes from rereading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and typing on an old electric typewriter. Keek—whose snappy narrative voice is darkly humorous and hysterically blunt—must ultimately decide for herself which relationships to salvage, which to set free, and what it means to fall in love.

At first it sounds like this will be a fluffy book about the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. However, the second paragraph leads me to believe this will be quite an insightful novel. I can't wait to read it! And can I just say: “Sofa king annoying.” LOVE. IT.


And Then Things Fall Apart is scheduled to be released on July 26, 2011 by Simon Pulse.


What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for Don't Stop Now by Julie Halpern.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

On the first day of Lillian’s summer-before-college, she gets a message on her cell from her sort-of friend, Penny. Not only has Penny faked her own kidnapping, but Lil is the only one who figures it out. She knows that Penny’s home life has been rough, and that her boyfriend may be abusive. Soon, Penny’s family, the local police, and even the FBI are grilling Lil, and she decides to head out to Oregon, where Penny has mentioned an acquaintance. And who better to road-trip across the country with than Lil’s BFF, Josh. But here’s the thing: Lil loves Josh. And Josh doesn’t want to “ruin” their amazing friendship.

Josh has a car and his dad’s credit card. Lil has her cellphone and a hunch about where Penny is hiding. There’s something else she needs to find: Are she and Josh meant to be together?

I think this sounds like a great premise, and a terrific summer read! I can't wait for it, and fortunately it's scheduled to be released next week--June 7th--by Feiwel & Friends!

What are you waiting for?

Enjoy your reading!

Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases. 


This week I'm waiting for Vicious Little Darlings by Katherine Easer.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

Sarah Weaver wasn't looking forward to starting at an all-girls school. But that was before she met Maddy. Maddy and her best friend, Agnes, are fun and rich and interesting—and for some reason, they seem to really like Sarah. Before long, Maddy and Agnes have moved Sarah into a big house off campus, where they cook together, buy each other presents, and share each other's secrets. So why does Sarah feel like something's bizarrely wrong? As more and more cracks start to show in Maddy's and Agnes's perfect veneers, Sarah notices some strange and disturbing things: Maddy's compulsive lying, Agnes's obsession with Maddy, and the deterioration of their friendship. And just when Sarah begins to question her own sanity, things turns deadly. Fans of Pretty Little Liars will devour this juicy debut novel.

I think this sounds like a great novel--dark but maybe not too dark, you know? And another title to add to my 2011 Debut Author Challenge list! Vicious Little Darlings is scheduled to be released by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books on June 21, 2011.

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.


This week I'm waiting for Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins.

Summary from Goodreads:

In this companion novel to Anna and the French Kiss, two teens discover that true love may be closer than they think.
For budding costume designer Lola Nolan, the more outrageous, the outfit—more sparkly, more fun, more wild—the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins move back into the house next door.

When the family returns and Cricket—a gifted inventor and engineer—steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.

Duh, who ISN'T waiting for this book? Anna and the French Kiss was absolutely amazing, and I expect Lola will be, too! We only have to wait untll September 29th!

What are you waiting for?

Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker.

Summary from Goodreads:

The story of Lacey Anne Byers, a small town girl who is excited to star in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, until a childhood friend reappears and makes her question her faith.

One of the YA Contemp releases, this book just sounds really interesting, and different from anything else I've read recently. Really looking forward to its release on July 19th by Bloomsbury, and I think the cover is intriguing, as well (love the apple!)!

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Brother/Sister by Sean Olin.

Summary from Goodreads:

Will and Asheley have a troubled past. Their father left them when they were little, and their mother has just been carted off to an alcohol treatment center. Now, they have the house to themselves, and an endless California summer stretching out before them. Through alternating perspectives, they tell the story of how and why their lives spun violently out of control—right up to the impossibly shocking conclusion you'll have to read for yourself to believe.

 

Sounds intense, one of those reads that sits with you long after you've finished it. Brother/Sister is scheduled to be released on June 9th by Razorbill, and I'm really looking forward to it!

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Have you entered to win a copy of One Hundred Candles yet?

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Never Have I Ever, book 2 in The Lying Game series by Sara Shepard.

I can't find a description on Goodreads or Barnes & Noble yet, but who cares, right? If you loved The Lying Game, you too will be anxiously awaiting this new book! Never Have I Ever is scheduled for an August 2 release by HarperCollins.

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Tighter by Adele Griffin.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the idyllic New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she is stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple's tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl—and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two ghosts. Why is Jamie's connection to the couple so intense? What really happened last summer at Little Bly? As the secrets of the house wrap tighter and tighter around her, Jamie must navigate the increasingly blurred divide between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Brilliantly plotted, with startling twists, here is a thrilling page-turner from the award-winning Adele Griffin.

Sounds like a great psychological thriller! I actually pre-ordered this for my nook so I can read it as soon as it's released on May 10!

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.


This week I'm waiting for As I Wake by Elizabeth Scott. I found out about it when I was visiting her web page; here's the description they have posted:

What if you woke up and didn't know where you were?
What if you didn't know who you were?
And what if, when your memories started to come back--what if they didn't match the you that you're supposed to be?

There's no cover or even a definite pub date there, but Goodreads has September 15 as release date, and this as the cover:

YAY!

Elizabeth's newest, Between Here and Forever, hasn't even been released yet, but I'm already anxiously waiting for this next one!

What are you waiting for?

Have you entered to win a copy of 7 Kinds of Ordinary Catastrophes yet?

Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Shut Out by Kody Keplinger.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:

A contemporary reimagining of the Greek play, "Lysistrata," in which high school senior Lissa decides it's time to end her school's ridiculous sports rivalry once and for all by starting a hook-up strike.

SHUT OUT is a story about Lissa, a senior in high school, who decides to put an end to a decade old rivalry between her school's football and soccer teams after her quarterback boyfriend ditches her a few too many times on behalf of hazing the other team. Her plan is to start a sex strike - gathering the girlfriends of all the players of both teams and agreeing that none of them will hookup with their boyfriends until the rivalry is over. What follows is an all out battle of the sexes as the girls begin to explore issues of teen sexuality and the boys attempt to seducethe girls into breaking their oath. Lissa is determined to win, but she never expects the sexual tension that rises between she and Cash Sterling, a member of the soccer team and leader of the boys' side.

I much prefer Kody's description, from her blog, when she revealed the cover and the new name (it was previously Luststruck). I loved The DUFF and cannot wait for Shut Out. It's scheduled to be published by Poppy on September 5, 2011.

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma.

Summary from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan have never had the chance to be 'normal' teenagers. Having pulled together for years to take care of their younger siblings while their wayward, drunken mother leaves them to fend alone, they have become much more than brother and sister. And now, they have fallen in love. But this is a love that can never be allowed, a love that will have devastating consequences ...

How can something so wrong feel so right?

I know, incest, ew, right? But something about this leads me to believe (and hope!) that it's going to be a heart-wrenching, psychologically brilliant story. Early reviews are positive, although everyone says they're bawling at the end (and one reviewer on Goodreads states that she needed to take a Xanax afterwards). I tend to like stories like that, and the description even sounds like it might be a contender for a spot on my MAHROAT list...time will tell!

One reviewer states that there's a disclaimer at the beginning of Forbidden indictating that it's not a YA book, but Amazon has it listed as such.

Forbidden will be released by Simon Pulse on June 28, 2011. Which cover do you prefer--US (red), or UK (black)?  I can't decide!

What are you waiting for?

Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.


This week I'm waiting for Carmen by Walter Dean Myers.

Summary from Goodreads:

A retelling of the Bizet opera set in Spanish Harlem in which a teen with a fiery temper wants the one boy she can't have, with deadly consequences.

Doesn't really give you much, huh? And I really don't know that much about Carmen, the opera. BUT, I am a huge fan of Walter Dean Myers, and I think this modern retelling will appeal to many.

Carmen is set to be released on April 26 by EgmontUSA.

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme event created by Breaking the Spine to help showcase upcoming releases.

This week I'm waiting for The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young.

Summary from Goodreads:

Everyone has weird thoughts sometimes. But for seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon, strange thoughts have taken over her life. She loves Alex, the little boy she babysits, more than anything. But one day, she has a vision of murdering him that's so gruesome, she can't get it out of her mind. In fact, Dani's convinced that she really will kill Alex. She confesses the thoughts to keep him safe, setting off a media frenzy that makes "Dani Death" the target of an extremist vigilante group.
Through the help of an uncoventional psychiatrist, Dani begins to heal her broken mind. But will it be too late? The people of her community want justice . . . and Dani's learning that some thoughts are better left unsaid.

I think this sounds like a fascinating psychological story--a girl who's being overcome by these horrible thoughts tries to do the right thing by revealing that she's having problems, but this decision causes her to become a social pariah. Can't wait to read it!

The Babysitter Murders will be published on July 26, 2011 by Atheneum.

What are you waiting for?
Enjoy your reading!
Christi