Top Ten Titles Up Next on my Summer TBR
Aaaand we're back! I really meant to do the last two weeks of TTT, but I could never quite stay on the computer long enough to do them justice so I gave up half finished. Meanwhile I've had a wonderful June of being outside and also reading All The Books and watching All The Movies, and now for at least the next 3 weeks, I'm back to work. On a much more straightforward project, one I'm not even a supervisor on this time, so a) I'm actually having fun, and b) hopefully unlike April and May, I'll be able to consistently finish more than one book a week. Here are a few I'm looking forward to.
(+main/linkup post at That Artsy Reader Girl for others')
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1. Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes - Alexa Martin
I haven't seen a lot of books that center around two best friends becoming roommates, and definitely not when they're in their late 20s and one is a single parent.
2. The Summer List - Amy Mason Doan
Speaking of best friends...what about a pair of them reuniting for the first time in 17 years, to complete a seasonal scavenger hunt and confront some buried secrets/truths??
3. The Stepping Off Place - Cameron Kelly Rosenbloom
Back to YA -- what about best friends, except one of them commits suicide and the other has to pick herself up?
4. The Middle of Somewhere - Sonja Yoerg
Gotta get a hiking book in, preferably asap. Even if my only option is in large print, which will be fine to read but hard to adjust back for the next book.
5. All That Really Matters - Nicole Deese
After reading Before I Called You Mine and loving it (JOSHUA! *swoon*), I was DELIGHTED to discover this book among the author's others -- a book I recognized as one that had sounded good on at least a couple of TTT posts at the beginning of the year, but whose title I of COURSE forgot to write down, and that was when I was visiting everyone so I had no idea where to look. And now it's serendipitiously come back to me!
6. A Patron Saint for Junior Bridesmaids - Shelly Tougas
I don't expect this middle grade novel to be anything but cute and fun, but I bought it for a buck because of that, so I'd like to have my fun and send it back out the door.
7. And The Trees Crept In - Dawn Kurtagich
It's not the right time of year at all for a horror novel, and yet...sometimes on stormy nights it is, so after seeing this title on Reddit, I'm intrigued and delighted my library has it.
8. Listen To Me - Tess Gerritsen
I was just idly looking at the Rizzoli & Isles series to revisit my reviews, when I saw HOLY CRAP NEW INSTALLMENT AFTER FIVE YEARS?? (releasing in exactly a week) Of course, I haven't hopped on the request list fast enough to get it before autumn, but it looks like my library is reserving a couple copies as rental books -- I'd read it in a day anyway, so being able to pay 25 cents to skip the line will be sweet.
9. The Evolution of Claire - Tess Sharpe
Speaking of things I just learned about, because I've seen the new Jurassic movie twice already and am in full blown fangirl mode, there's a YA novel about a 19-year-old Claire interning at Jurassic World????? GIVE IT 2 ME IMMEDIATELY. What do you mean it sold horribly so any further installments in this series were canceled, it's already out of print, and secondhand copies now cost as much or more than it did new. Thankfully I can get it from interlibrary loan...
10. Maisie Lockwood Adventures #1: Off the Grid - Tess Sharpe
But on the bright side, this was released 2 weeks ago and though my libraries do not have it, Libby has an audiobook and I'm 2nd on the waitlist right now ...continually being pushed down the list (now 5th) because MELSA is 1 library system in Libby but 7 IRL, and since my county didn't buy it, the citizens of the larger county that DID get priority on the request list.
Anyway! Literally the second I walked out of this movie I started googling for middle grade novels that would resemble this dynamic, only to find IT ALREADY EXISTS IN PERFECT FORM. Apparently this story covers the 4 years in Maisie's life between Fallen Kingdom and Dominion (also a popular fanfic topic, it turns out, so now I'm spoiled for choice), and I don't know how much of this is a spoiler/was in trailers or otherwise released ahead of time if you haven't seen it, but...[spoiler: click to open]
CLAIRE + OWEN + MAISIE OFF-THE-GRID FAMILY UNIT FTW!!
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+Bonus: I made & queued this post on Friday but then on Saturday I found a new one to shoot straight to the top that I have to include --
11. There You'll Find Me - Jenny B. Jones
I finally watched "Finding You" and now really wish I'd followed through on my interest in seeing it in the theater last year (I didn't, because covid fears), because it BLEW ME AWAY; I fell in love with both the story and every single character and idly wished it had been based on a book so I could read even deeper into the characters' thoughts, only to find out 5 minutes later that it WAS! The library even still has a copy, which frankly stuns me.
(after scanning Goodreads reviews, I kind of suspect I'll end up liking the movie better, but still interested)
P.S. Speaking of 5-star movies I didn't know were based on novels before I saw them, I watched both "Those Who Wish Me Dead" and "The Weekend Away" earlier this month, and they were AMAZING. I really think I would have enjoyed the books too, but thrillers are tricky in that they're a genre of book I don't enjoy as much if I see the movie first, so I can't go double dip, at least not right away. But you're interested, that's your cue to rectify my mistake!
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Comment Process: okay, here's the best it apparently gets...despite checking every privacy option possible to allow it, LJ seems not to be letting people post anonymous comments here, possibly because I refuse to switch the hideous mobile-friendly "up-to-date" version of the layout. So your options are creating a free LJ account, or trying to comment anonymously and then, after it says it wasn't posted, you get an option to log in with an OpenID, Twitter, Facebook or Google account and post it. Very much a hassle. Luckily I write these mostly for myself and for the joy of sharing books; comments are fun but never expected.
(+main/linkup post at That Artsy Reader Girl for others')
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1. Mom Jeans and Other Mistakes - Alexa Martin
I haven't seen a lot of books that center around two best friends becoming roommates, and definitely not when they're in their late 20s and one is a single parent.
2. The Summer List - Amy Mason Doan
Speaking of best friends...what about a pair of them reuniting for the first time in 17 years, to complete a seasonal scavenger hunt and confront some buried secrets/truths??
3. The Stepping Off Place - Cameron Kelly Rosenbloom
Back to YA -- what about best friends, except one of them commits suicide and the other has to pick herself up?
4. The Middle of Somewhere - Sonja Yoerg
Gotta get a hiking book in, preferably asap. Even if my only option is in large print, which will be fine to read but hard to adjust back for the next book.
5. All That Really Matters - Nicole Deese
After reading Before I Called You Mine and loving it (JOSHUA! *swoon*), I was DELIGHTED to discover this book among the author's others -- a book I recognized as one that had sounded good on at least a couple of TTT posts at the beginning of the year, but whose title I of COURSE forgot to write down, and that was when I was visiting everyone so I had no idea where to look. And now it's serendipitiously come back to me!
6. A Patron Saint for Junior Bridesmaids - Shelly Tougas
I don't expect this middle grade novel to be anything but cute and fun, but I bought it for a buck because of that, so I'd like to have my fun and send it back out the door.
7. And The Trees Crept In - Dawn Kurtagich
It's not the right time of year at all for a horror novel, and yet...sometimes on stormy nights it is, so after seeing this title on Reddit, I'm intrigued and delighted my library has it.
8. Listen To Me - Tess Gerritsen
I was just idly looking at the Rizzoli & Isles series to revisit my reviews, when I saw HOLY CRAP NEW INSTALLMENT AFTER FIVE YEARS?? (releasing in exactly a week) Of course, I haven't hopped on the request list fast enough to get it before autumn, but it looks like my library is reserving a couple copies as rental books -- I'd read it in a day anyway, so being able to pay 25 cents to skip the line will be sweet.
9. The Evolution of Claire - Tess Sharpe
Speaking of things I just learned about, because I've seen the new Jurassic movie twice already and am in full blown fangirl mode, there's a YA novel about a 19-year-old Claire interning at Jurassic World????? GIVE IT 2 ME IMMEDIATELY. What do you mean it sold horribly so any further installments in this series were canceled, it's already out of print, and secondhand copies now cost as much or more than it did new. Thankfully I can get it from interlibrary loan...
10. Maisie Lockwood Adventures #1: Off the Grid - Tess Sharpe
But on the bright side, this was released 2 weeks ago and though my libraries do not have it, Libby has an audiobook and I'm 2nd on the waitlist right now ...continually being pushed down the list (now 5th) because MELSA is 1 library system in Libby but 7 IRL, and since my county didn't buy it, the citizens of the larger county that DID get priority on the request list.
Anyway! Literally the second I walked out of this movie I started googling for middle grade novels that would resemble this dynamic, only to find IT ALREADY EXISTS IN PERFECT FORM. Apparently this story covers the 4 years in Maisie's life between Fallen Kingdom and Dominion (also a popular fanfic topic, it turns out, so now I'm spoiled for choice), and I don't know how much of this is a spoiler/was in trailers or otherwise released ahead of time if you haven't seen it, but...[spoiler: click to open]
CLAIRE + OWEN + MAISIE OFF-THE-GRID FAMILY UNIT FTW!!
---------------------
+Bonus: I made & queued this post on Friday but then on Saturday I found a new one to shoot straight to the top that I have to include --
11. There You'll Find Me - Jenny B. Jones
I finally watched "Finding You" and now really wish I'd followed through on my interest in seeing it in the theater last year (I didn't, because covid fears), because it BLEW ME AWAY; I fell in love with both the story and every single character and idly wished it had been based on a book so I could read even deeper into the characters' thoughts, only to find out 5 minutes later that it WAS! The library even still has a copy, which frankly stuns me.
(after scanning Goodreads reviews, I kind of suspect I'll end up liking the movie better, but still interested)
P.S. Speaking of 5-star movies I didn't know were based on novels before I saw them, I watched both "Those Who Wish Me Dead" and "The Weekend Away" earlier this month, and they were AMAZING. I really think I would have enjoyed the books too, but thrillers are tricky in that they're a genre of book I don't enjoy as much if I see the movie first, so I can't go double dip, at least not right away. But you're interested, that's your cue to rectify my mistake!
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Comment Process: okay, here's the best it apparently gets...despite checking every privacy option possible to allow it, LJ seems not to be letting people post anonymous comments here, possibly because I refuse to switch the hideous mobile-friendly "up-to-date" version of the layout. So your options are creating a free LJ account, or trying to comment anonymously and then, after it says it wasn't posted, you get an option to log in with an OpenID, Twitter, Facebook or Google account and post it. Very much a hassle. Luckily I write these mostly for myself and for the joy of sharing books; comments are fun but never expected.