I'm Back!!!!!

I know I've been away for a bit but May & June is my busy time at the day job. I'm usually exhausted by the time I get home. I'm happy to say that now that it is behind me, I will get back to reading & blogging. I'm on vacation this week, so expect reviews again starting in July!

Waiting on Wednesday {16}: Origin

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Today I'm featuring Origin by Jessica Khoury.

 

 

 

 

Synopsis from Goodreads:  Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home—and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.

Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost. This is a supremely compelling debut novel that blends the awakening romance of Matched with the mystery and jungle conspiracy of Lost.

 

Goodreads / B&N

Origin will be released by Razorbill on 9/4/2012.

 

 

Okay, so that's mine. What's your WOW pick this week? Also, if you want to participate, head on over to Breaking the Spine and link up!!

Waiting on Wednesday: Blind Spot

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Today I'm featuring Blind Spot by Laura Ellen.

 

 

 

Synopsis from Goodreads: There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer.

 

This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally blind teen who just wants to be like everyone else.

 

Goodreads / B&N

Blind Spot will be released by Harcourt Children's Books on 10/23/2012.

 

 

Okay, so that's mine. What's your WOW pick this week? Also, if you want to participate, head on over to Breaking the Spine and link up!!

Stacking the Shelves {3}

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and is a way to showcase the books we've received for review or purchased, borrowed, etc. If you'd like to participate please check out Tynga's website for more information.

It's been a while since I've blogged so the books below reflect all the books that I received/purchased in May.

Purchased:

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy #1), N.K. Jemisin

Release Date: 2/25/10, Orbit

Goodreads / Amazon 

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

Release Date: 2/1/99, MTV Books

Goodreads / Amazon

For Review:

Amelia Anne is Dead & Gone, Kat Rosenfield

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 7/5/12, Dutton Juvenile

Goodreads / Amazon

City of Women, David R. Gillham

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 8/7/12, Amy Einhorn Books (Putnam)

Goodreads / Amazon

I read this one already (I couldn't resist the pretty cover). It was great!

The Kissing List, Stephanie Reents

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 5/22/12, Hogarth

Goodreads / Amazon

The Watch, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 6/5/12, Hogarth

Goodreads / Amazon

The Dead Do Not Improve, Jay Caspian Kang

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 8/7/12, Hogarth

Goodreads / Amazon

I Am Forbidden, Anouk Markovits

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 5/8/12, Hogarth

Goodreads / Amazon

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 7/24/12, Random House

Goodreads / Amazon

Niceville: A Novel, Carsten Stroud

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 6/12/12, Knopf Doubleday

Goodreads / Amazon

A Hundred Flowers, Gail Tsukiyama

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date:

Goodreads / Amazon

The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 7/17/12, Knopf Doubleday

Goodreads / Amazon

A Once Crowded Sky, Tom King

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 7/10/12, Touchstone

Goodreads / Amazon

The Pleasures of Men, Kate Williams

Source: ARC from publisher

Release Date: 8/7/12, Voice

Goodreads / Amazon

A HUGE thank you to all the publishers and Netgalley. That's it for me this week. Leave me a link to your mailbox post and I'll be sure to check it out!!

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Waiting on Wednesday {14}: Smashed

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Today I'm featuring Smashed by Lisa Luedeke.

Synopsis from Goodreads: A field hockey star grapples with addiction in this riveting debut that will appeal to fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.

Stay out of trouble for one more year, and Katie Martin can leave her small town loneliness behind forever. She is a field hockey star on the fast track to a college scholarship, but her relationship with alcohol has always been a little questionable. Then trouble finds her. Alec is the most popular guy in school, and also the biggest bully—with his sights set firmly on Katie. When Alec turns on the charm, Katie thinks she must have been wrong about him.

Except that she wasn’t. On a rain-soaked, alcohol-drenched night, one impulsive decision leaves Katie indebted to Alec in the worst possible way. This debut novel is a fast-paced and compelling story of addiction, heartbreak, and redemption.

Goodreads / B&N

Smashed will be released by Margaret K. McElderry Books on 8/21/2012.

Okay, so that's mine. What's your WOW pick this week? Also, if you want to participate, head on over to Breaking the Spine and link up!!