Waiting on Wednesday (3)

First of all, HAPPY 1st of DECEMBER!! It was definitely a great first day here in OH as we've seen snow all day! :-) Not enough to really accumulate but it's enough to get me excited about winter. Although, I'm sure I'll be singing a different tune once we're still having snowfalls in April. Ha! Now, onto today's post!!

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

This sounds soooo good to me! I don't normally like sci-fi-ish stuff but I feel like it's something that I'll probably enjoy. I'm also a sucker for a good romance so hopefully Amy and Elder's love story rocks. And of course, it's a gorgeous cover! I know, I know - it's so tacky, etc. to judge a book by it's cover but whatever you know you do it, too! ;-)

Across The Universe will be available in book stores everywhere on January 11, 2011.

I feel like WoW are the only posts I've done (ha) but I promise that that will be changing soon! I've got a couple reviews I'm getting ready to post in the next few days, so that's something to look forward to. Also, I'm putting together a giveaway/contest to help get my blog "out there" and to gain more followers. So stay tuned for that as well! ;-)


EDIT: Also, I can't figure out how to format the stupid huge space out of my post - I've tried everything I can think of... Sorry :-(

Waiting on Wednesday (2)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. WOW spotlights forthcoming titles that we absolutely can't wait to read.

Vixen by Jillian Larkin
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.

Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are over before they’ve even begun ... or are they?
 
Clara Knowles, Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the high-society wedding comes off without a hitch—but Clara isn’t as lily-white as she appears. Seems she has some dirty little secrets of her own that she’ll do anything to keep hidden.... 
 
Lorraine Dyer, Gloria’s social-climbing best friend, is tired of living in Gloria’s shadow. When Lorraine’s envy spills over into desperate spite, no one is safe. And someone’s going to be very sorry.... 
 
From debut author Jillian Larkin, VIXEN is the first novel in the sexy, dangerous, and ridiculously romantic new series set in the Roaring Twenties ... when anything goes.

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I just found out about this novel by searching for upcoming titles on B&N.com in hopes of finding one to blog about today. I've always been fascinated by the 20's; the flappers, prohibition, Al Capone, the suffrage movement... So many incredible (whether good or bad) things happened during that time. I'm looking forward to seeing - er, reading - about this author's take on that time period and how she'll navigate it. 

Vixen hits shelves near you on December 14 of this year!

Waiting On Wednesday (1)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. WOW spotlights forthcoming titles that we absolutely can't wait to read.

TWO KISSES FOR MADDY A Memoir of Loss & Love by Matthew Logelin

Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. The pair settled together in Los Angeles and they had it all: the perfect marriage, a beautiful new home, and a baby girl on the way. But just twenty-seven hours after they welcomed Madeline into the world, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and instantly died, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited.

Faced with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt coped by returning to the small blog he had created to keep friends and family updated on Liz's pregnancy, which today has become a place for him to share with over a million curious readers the day to day of two lives bound by loss and love. But there is more to his story than just raising a daughter alone: Matt Logelin is an extraordinary human being. Having been sustained through tragedy by the kindness and generosity of strangers, he is now dedicated to helping others in difficult situations by reaching out and inspiring those facing loss or adversity.

A heartwarming and heartbreaking story punctuated by beautifully recollected-- and often humorous-- memories and anecdotes, TWO KISSES FOR MADDYunquestionably has something to offer any reader who has experienced grief, and has sought the courage to live again.

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I've followed Matt's blog (and subsequently his and Maddy's lives) for almost two years now and I can't wait to finally read this book. Don't get me wrong, the blog is wonderful, I'm just looking forward to having a hard copy of their journey (filled with even more details!) in my hands. Look for this book to hit shelves in April of 2011!