Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Waiting On Wednesday #9

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme where we get to let everyone know about what books we are eagerly anticipating the release of. WoW is hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine. Want to participate? Grab the logo on her page, post your own WoW entry on your blog, and leave your link on her blog!


Here's what I'm waiting on...


And Then Things Fall Apart by Arlaina Tibensky

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.
~from Goodreads


What are you waiting for?

~Jessica

6 comments:

  1. I've never heard of this book before but it looks really good! I'm also following your blog now too. Here's my WoW: http://tiny.cc/r3y9u :)

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  2. Sounds interesting! I don't know if it is one that really is for me, but I will have to wait and see what you think of it.

    My WOW: http://easternsunset-reads.blogspot.com/2011/06/waiting-on-wednesday_29.html

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  3. Ooooo... haven't heard of this one before, but it sounds endearing and quirky! Love! Great pick.

    If you’d like, you can check out my WoW here.

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  4. I wonder if you have to read The Bell Jar to really appreciate this??? Either way it sounds good.

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  5. Wow, that's a great cover. And I really liked and identified with The Bell Jar when I first read it, so it sounds like this book might be one for me, too.

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  6. Thanks everyone! I'm thinking I should read The Bell Jar first, it's been on my TBR list longer anyway. :)

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Thank you for commenting and happy reading!