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2019 Beat the Backlist

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Beat the Backlist Challenge is hosted by Novel Knight  and is dedicated to helping people knock off those books on their TBR list. There is also a mini challenge within to help motivate everyone to complete those lists. You can find the details of the Hogwarts Mini Challenge here.  I'll be playing on team Gryffindor. Here are the books I am hoping to get to in 2019: Reviews of finished books: To All the Boys I've Loved Before  The Light we Lost  The Nanny Diaries What are you hoping to read in 2019??

Can't Wait Wednesday (15)

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Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by  Wishful Endings  and is based on Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly featured hosted by  Breaking the Spine  where we get a chance to highlight the books we can't wait to get released. This week's Can't Wait Wednesday is Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss by Kasie West Expected Publication: February 5, 2019 Goodreads Summary: Lacey Barnes has dreamt of being in a movie for as long as she can remember. However, while her dream did include working alongside the hottest actor in Hollywood, it didn’t involve having to finish up her senior year of high school at the same time she was getting her big break. Although that is nothing compared to Donavan, the straight-laced student her father hires to tutor her, who is a full-on nightmare. As Lacey struggles to juggle her burgeoning career, some on-set sabotage, and an off-screen romance with the unlikeliest of leading men, she quickly learns that sometimes th...

Top Ten Tuesday (6)

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  The Artsy Reader  and gives people a chance to list out their favorites of the topic of the week!! TODAY'S TOPIC IS: What books do you hope to find under the Christmas tree today? 1. Unscripted by Tina Reber                      This cute contemporary romance seems predictable and a page turner. 2. Save the Date by Carrie Aarons                       Another contemporary romance about a pack (that even I have made) to marry your                         best friend at age 30 has to come into fruition. I got this one and I'm so excited!! 3. Brooklyn Girls  by Gemma Burgess                      This book follows the lives of 5, 20 year olds trying to make it i...

Book Review: Five Feet Apart

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Five Feet Apart by  Rachael Lippincott Goodreads Summary: Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s  exactly  what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But sudde...