Can't-Wait Wednesday

 

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Tessa at Wishful Endings which spotlights and discusses forthcoming books that bloggers are looking forward to reading. Generally it's about books that haven't been released yet. This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday, formerly hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  

There are so many exciting new books on the horizon, so without further ado, this week's Can't Wait For book is . . .

 

Publisher:  Gallery/Scout Press

Publication Date:  May 29, 2018

From Goodreads:  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.

On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person—but also that the cold-reading skills she’s honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money.

Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased…where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it.

Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, this is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.

My thoughts:  I was totally consumed by the author's first two novels, In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10.  Ware is a captivating storyteller, and my plan is to read The Lying Game before this latest novel is published and then dive into the new release.

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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph

It's Tuesday . . . time for . . .

                                                      

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

Today I'm featuring an upcoming read, No One Knows by J.T. Ellison, which I borrowed from the library.

 

Goodreads Page

CHAPTER 1

Aubrey

Nashville

Today

One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five days after Joshua Hamilton went missing, the State of Tennessee declared him legally dead.

Aubrey, his wife--or former wife, or ex-wife, or widow, she had no idea how to refer to herself anymore--received the certified letter on a Friday.  It came to the Montessori school where she taught, the very one she and Josh had attended as children.  Came to her door in the middle of reading time, borne on the hands of Linda Pierce, the school's long-standing principal, who looked as if someone had died.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?   

J.T. Ellison has been on my list of authors to try for a while now, so this book and this month seem like a good place to start.





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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #119

It's Tuesday . . . time for . . .

                                                      

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

Today I'm featuring my current read, The Blue by Lucy Clarke, which I borrowed from the library . . .

  

Goodreads Page 

PROLOGUE

A body floats, unseeing eyes fixed on the brooding sky.  A pair of cotton shorts has darkened, pockets gulping with water.  A shirt billows, then clings to the unmoving chest.  The streak of blood across the right temple has washed away now, leaving the skin clear and graying.

 

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?

This book first caught my eye when I saw it on Greg's Book Haven.  As summer comes to an end, reading this mystery set at sea is my attempt to hang on to the season. 

 

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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #79

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts book excerpts with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

Today I'm featuring:

 

Beginning:  The stranger didn't shatter Adam's world all at once.

 

That was what Adam Price would tell himself later, but that was a lie.  Adam somehow knew right away, right from the very first sentence, that the life he had known as a content suburban married father of two was forever gone.  It was a simple sentence on the face of it, but there was something in the tone, something knowing and even caring, that let Adam know that nothing would ever be the same.                                                                                                                                                             

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Page 56:  "Adam felt like saying that they had bigger problems, but maybe for now, this distraction would be helpful."

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From Goodreads:  The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world.

Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life.

Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne’s deception, and realizes that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he’s stumbled into will not only ruin lives—it will end them.

 

 

Which book are you reading now or about to start?

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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #73

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from one of my current reads with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

Today I'm featuring:

 

  

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

I loved this author's previous novel, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, which was a twisty thriller that I couldn't put down.  The Kind Worth Killing is just as good so far.

Beginning:  Part 1

The Rules of Airport Bars

Chapter 1

Ted

 

"Hello, there," she said.

 

I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge at Heathrow Airport, then up into the stranger's face.

 

"Do I know you?" I asked.  She didn't look particularly familiar, but her American accent, her crisp white shirt, her sculpted jeans tucked into knee-high boots, all made her look like one of my wife's awful friends.

 

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Page 57 (page 56 is blank):  "I told him that I had found something in the meadow on the other side of the woods and needed his help."

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Which book are you reading now or about to start?

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Waiting on Wednesday: Descent

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.  Today I'm featuring the new thriller coming early next year from Tim Johnston. 

   

Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Publication Date:  January 6, 2015

From barnesandnoble.com:  The stunning vistas of the Rocky Mountains reveal a dark and deadly side in this brilliantly conceived thriller about family ties and the fight for survival.

Descent, the story of a family undone by the disappearance of a daughter who went out for a morning run and didn’t come back, is stunning in its emotional impact--a compulsively readable page-turner with a strong literary sensibility.

The girl’s vanishing--on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning--all the more devastating for its mystery, is the beginning of the family’s harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?

Johnston captures every emotion, every terrifying thought, every moment of loneliness, from the perspectives of everyone in the family—as each in his or her own way assumes responsibility for their collective loss. And in the father we see the last flicker of hope as he pursues every angle and refuses to give up in his belief that his daughter is still alive. Ultimately he finds an answer, in a climax that is stunning in both its execution and its resolution.

This combination of a great story and beautiful writing brings to mind the works of Tim Gautreaux, Dennis Lehane, and Russell Banks.

 

Which book are you waiting for?

. . . Will you add this to your list of must-reads? 

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Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #55

It's Friday . . . time to share excerpts from a current or upcoming read with:

• Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.  
• The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.

Today I'm featuring my current read:

  

 

Beginning -- Prologue, Sixteen Years Ago

The world was on fire.

 

Or maybe she wasn't in the world any more.  Maybe this was Hell.  The heat, the taste of sulphur on her tongue, the sickness, the torment.  Screams rang through the air, relentless, monotonous, a one-pitch yell of despair.  She opened her eyes and saw a figure stooping over her; a hovering devil, with flaming red hair.  She tried to shout but all that came out was a rasping noise, and the devil's face was close, the brimstone smell of its breath in her nostrils.

 

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Chapter 1  -- Present Day

 

The woman lying on the bunk appeared to be dead, until she sneezed; the violent motion making her skinny body spasm.  She opened bloodshot eyes and lifted an arm, trying to pull a tissue from the box on the bedside cabinet.  But as she reached out, her body spasmed again and she knocked the box to the floor.  Too weak to pick it up, she lay still, until a further series of sneezes rocked her body like gunshots.

 

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Page 56 (from the ebook):  "He just had one of those faces which made her want to smile: a lovely curved mouth, great big brown eyes, and the sort of floppy hair which she had adored in Robbie Williams in her teenage years."

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My thoughts -- The descriptive scenes in the prologue and first chapter drew me in immediately, and there's enough mystery in the opening chapters to keep me turning the pages.

Which book are you reading now or about to start?
 

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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #67 and Teaser Tuesdays

 
It's Tuesday . . . time to share book excerpts with: 

• First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

• Teaser Tuesdays hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading, where bloggers post two (2) random “teaser” sentences--no spoilers allowed--from their current reads to try to entice others to seek out these books.

Today I'm featuring the opening paragraphs and a teaser from Missing You  by Harlan Coben.

 

Chapter 1

Kat Donovan spun off her father's old stool, readying to leave O'Malley's Pub, when Stacy said, "You're not going to like what I did."

The tone made Kat stop mid-stride.  "What?"

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Teaser: "'Ever see the movie Chinatown?' he asked.

'Sure.'"  ~ p. 124

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?  

The opening lines make me curious and have me wanting to know more.  I'll definitely be reading on.  I'm new to Harlen Coben's books, having listened to the audio version of Gone For Good, which I enjoyed earlier this year. 

What are you reading now or planning to read soon?

 

 

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First Chapter ~ First Paragraph #59

 

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea. It's an opportunity to share the first paragraph(s) of a book I am currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

Today I'm featuring the opening from I've Got You Under My Skin by Mary Higgins Clark, which I borrowed from the library.

   

Prologue

Dr. Greg Moran was pushing three-year-old Timmy on the swing in the playground on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan, not far from the apartment.

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Laurie Moran looked out the window of her office on the twenty-fifth floor of 15 Rockefeller Center.  Her view was of the skating rink in the middle of that famous Manhattan complex.  It was a sunny but cold March day, and from her vantage point she could see beginners there, wobbling unsteadily on their skates, and in sharp contrast others who moved across the ice with the grace of ballet dancers.

Timmy, her eight-year-old son, loved ice hockey and planned to be good enough to play with the New York Rangers by the time he was twenty-one.  Laurie smiled as her mind filled with the image of Timmy's face, his expressive brown eyes sparkling with delight as he imagined himself in the position of goalie in future Rangers games.  He'll be the image of Greg by then, Laurie thought, but quickly gave herself a mental shake and turned her attention to the file on her desk.

What do you think?  Would you continue reading?

What are you reading now or planning to read soon?

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Sunday's Weekly Book Recap #21--BEA 2013 Edition

Welcome to my BEA 2013 edition of Sunday's Weekly Book Recap, which I am sharing on the following blogs:
    hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer
   hosted by the team at Tynga's Reviews
   hosted by Vicky at  Books, Biscuits, and Tea  

   BOOKS and ARCs I acquired at BEA 2013
 

From Random House (Imprints: Random House, Crown Publishing, Knopf Doubleday)

                               
                 

Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld, The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan,A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry; Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas, The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay

 

From HarperCollins (Imprints: Harper, HarperCollins, Avon Books, William Morrow)

              

                                                         
                                               

Row 1: We are Water by Wally Lamb, 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross, As You Wish by Eloisa James, Row 2: Shadowkiller by Wendy Corsi Staub, The Whole Golden World by Kristina Riggle, The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman, Row 3: And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman

From Simon & Schuster (Imprints: Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, Gallery Books, Scribner, Simon Pulse)

    
Seduction by M.J. Rose, The Chalice by Nancy Bilyeau, Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen, A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett, Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson, My Notorious Life by Kate Manning, Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young
 

From Penguin Group (Imprints: Viking Press,Pamela Dorman, Penguin, Gotham, Riverhead, Sentinel, Dutton, Plume, Berkley, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Blue Rider, Razor Bill)
      

          
         

Row 1: W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton, Morning Glory and The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio, Blowback by Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett, Row 2: Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston, All the Truth That's In Me by Julie Berry, Never Come Back by David Bell, The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert, Row 3: Covet by Tracey Garvis Graves, Traveling Sprinkler by Nicholson Baker, Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman, Sylo by D.J. MacHale, Row 4: The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
 

From Hachette Book Group (Imprint: Grand Central Publishing; Little, Brown) 
     

     
               
                 
Row 1: That Part Was True by Deborah McKinlay; Last Chance Book Club by Hope Ramsay, Somerset by Leila Meacham, Identical by Scott Turow, Row 2: The Apartment by Greg Baxter, You Should Have Known (no image available) by Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of Admission, Beautiful Day by Elin Hilderbrand, Haven Creek by Rochelle Alers, Row 3: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, Unbreakable by Kami Garcia, Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by Lisa Verge Higgins, Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
 

From Harlequin (Imprints: Harlequin, Mira)

 

 

 

                           
Row 1: Ink by Amanda Sun, The Returned by Jason Mott, Currant Creek Valley by RaeAnne Thayne, The Eternity Cure by Julie Kagawa, Row 2: A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson, Beauty's Beast by Jenna Kernan, The Look of Love by Bella Andre, The Best Man by Kristan Higgins, Row 3: Just One Kiss by Susan Mallery, Teatime for the Firefly by Shona Patel, The Wanderer by Robyn Carr, Waking Up To You/Overexposed by Leslie Kelly, Row 4: I'll Be Seeing You by Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan, Tear You Apart by Megan Hart 
 

From Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

              
                                      

The View from Penthouse B and I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman, Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone, Want Not (image not available) by Jonathan Miles, author of Dear American Airlines

From Hyperion
  Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

From Algonquin/Workman
        
Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman, The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein, You're Only Human: A Survival Guide for Modern Civilization by The Gecko 

From Bloomsbury USA
                          

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward; The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson

From Candlewick Press
            

The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo, The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas by David Almond

From Clarkson Potter
   Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr
 

From Grove/Atlantic

    Just What Kind of Mother Are You? by Paula Daly

                   

From Picador

   Havisham by Ronald Frame 
 

From St. Martin's Press

               

Accused by Lisa Scottoline, How to be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman, Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
 

From Scholastic 

                         
Awaken by Meg Cabot; The Last Present by Wendy Mass

From Soho Crime/Soho Press

         

Death of a Nightingale by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, A Blind Goddess by James R. Benn, A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam, What We Lost in the Dark by Jacquelyn Mitchard
 

From Spiegel & Grau

  The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk
 

From Tor/Forge

                           

The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan; The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White

From Amazon Publishing
    Changing Lanes by Kathleen Long 

From Beaver's Pond Press

    Capitol Hell by Jayne J. Jones and Alicia M. Long

From Flux
  The Cutting Room Floor by Dawn Klehr 

 From Gallic

    The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain

From Midnight Ink
                       
As She Left It and Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson

From Montlake Romance
                       
Take Me Home by Nancy Herkness; Sweet Tea and Secrets by Nancy Naigle 

From Open Road Integrated Media

    Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps by Jo Piazza

From Orbit
                         
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence; Charming by Elliott James 
 

From Other Press

                            

The Professor of Truth by James Robertson, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker

From Skyscape

                                       

Left Drowning by Jessica Park; Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
 

From Sourcebooks/Landmark

                  

Lies You Wanted to Hear by James Whitfield Thomson, Paris My Sweet by Amy Thomas, The One-Way Bridge by Cathie Pelletier

From Sweetwater Books/Cedar Fort

   Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career by Carla Kelly

From Tom Doherty

    The Sixth Station by Linda Stasi

From Torrey House Press

                              

The Legend's Daughter, Stories by David Kranes; Recapture & Other Stories by Erica Olsen
 

From Self Publishers

                 

Zinfandelity by Tracey Sorel, On a Night Like This by Barbara Freethy, Dirty Little Secrets by Liliana Hart

Here are links to the books and ARCs I received at other BEA events:

Library Journal Day of Dialog 2013

Author Breakfast and Librarian Lunch

Many, many thanks to all of the publishers and their staffs who participated in BEA 2013!

Which books did you get this week?
   

Catherine

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