Waiting on Wednesday: September 18, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday

Beneath the Ash Trees on Johnson Street just east of campus, Hourglass Vintage stood in a weatherered brick building, wedged between a fair-trade coffee shop and a bike-repair business. Vintage by Susan Gloss  

A sparkling debut novel in the vein of The Friday Night Knitting Club, centered around a Midwestern vintage clothing shop and a group of women who eventually transform the store and each others' lives.

Expected publication: March 25, 2014 by William Morrow & Company

Thanks to Breaking the Spine  for hosting this event every Wednesday allowing bloggers to highlight a book that they are eagerly anticipating hitting the shelves!

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Waiting on Wednesday: September 4, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday

I never believed a book could save your life.  It would make sense that Connor Joyce would be the one who changed my mind about that.  The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer

An enthralling literary mystery that connects some of the world’s most famous authors—from Norman Mailer and Truman Capote to B. Traven and J. D. Salinger—to a sinister collector in Chicago.

Expected publication: September 17, 2013 by Open Road Media E-riginal


Thanks to Breaking the Spine  for hosting this event every Wednesday allowing bloggers to highlight a book that they are eagerly anticipating hitting the shelves!

Does The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer grab your attention?  Is it one you'd be interested in reading?  Let us know here at The Things You Can Read!

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Waiting on Wednesday: August 7, 2013






Waiting on Wednesday

 

"The Salt from the ocean hung thick and heavy in the air." The Storycatcher by Ann Hite

Summary Courtesy of Goodreads:


Shelly Parker never much liked Faith Dobbins, the uppity way that girl bossed her around. But they had more in common than she knew. Shelly tried to ignore the haints that warned her Faith’s tyrannical father, Pastor Dobbins, was a devil in disguise. But when Faith started acting strange, Shelly couldn’t avoid the past—not anymore.

Critically acclaimed, award-winning author Ann Hite beckons readers back to the Depression-era South, from the saltwater marshes of Georgia’s coast to the whispering winds of North Carolina’s mystical Black Mountain, in a mesmerizing gothic tale about the dark family secrets that come back to haunt us.






What can I say, I'm a fan of gothic novels.  I'm also a sucker for a novel set in the depression-era south, which makes this book sound like it is right up my alley.  Publication is set for September 10, 2013.  Is anyone else eager for this one?

Thanks to Breaking the Spine  for hosting this event every Wednesday allowing bloggers to highlight a book that they are eagerly anticipating hitting the shelves!

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Waiting on Wednesday: July 31, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday

Summary Courtesy of Goodreads:

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small, cruel act: killing a bird with his slingshot. Little does he know the unforeseen and terrible consequences of the deed, which is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. By the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, William seems to be a man blessed by fortune—until tragedy strikes and the stranger in black comes. Then he starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, William enters into a rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business.

And Bellman & Black is born.

I loved Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale, and I am so happy that after a seven year hiatus, we will be able to read her second novel,  Bellman & Black .  Publication date for this one is scheduled for November 5, 2013.

Thanks to Breaking the Spine  for hosting this event every Wednesday allowing bloggers to highlight a book that they are eagerly anticipating hitting the shelves!

Does Bellman & Black grab your attention?  Is it one you'd be interested in reading?  Let us know here at The Things You Can Read!

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Waiting on Wednesday: A Day Late

I know it's not Wednesday, but I could not resist highlighting this book:

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Don Tillman, 39, a successful but odd genetics prof, designs a questionnaire for his Wife Project: punctual, non-drinker, non-smoker. Rosie, a spontaneous, outspoken barmaid, smokes, curses, and adjusts his clock when he complains about his schedule. Yet an unlikely partnership blooms when Don agrees to help Rosie find her biological father-Summary Courtesy of Goodreads

Having read and reviewed The Rosie Project, I am eager to see what others think of this one.  It is not going to be released until October 1, 2013, but I could easily see how Hollywood could make this one into a super comedy!

Thanks to Breaking the Spine  for hosting this event every Wednesday allowing bloggers to highlight a book that they are eagerly anticipating hitting the shelves!

Does The Rosie Project grab your attention?  Is it one you'd be interested in reading?  Let us know here at The Things You Can Read!

Happy reading to all! ☮

Happy Reading☮

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