Savory Saturday ...
It's Saturday. I wanted to start something new. So I keep blogging.
Savory Saturday. I want to share book news and recent reads this Saturday. Also I'm going to add the link to my recent Q&A with the lovely Shelly Manchester on the BooksHavePower Blog. We talked about writing tips and publishing. -Link-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Book News.
Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway was published this week.
Emmy’s best friend, Oliver, reappears after being kidnapped by his father ten years ago. Emmy hopes to pick up their relationship right where it left off. Are they destined to be together? Or has fate irreparably driven them apart?Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life.
She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach—go anywhere without her parents’ relentless worrying. But Emmy’s parents can’t seem to let her grow up—not since the day Oliver disappeared.
Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart.
He’d thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and finding himself returned to his old hometown, all at once, has his heart racing and his thoughts swirling.
Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. In Emmy’s soul, despite the space and time between them, their connection has never been severed. But is their story still written in the stars? Or are their hearts like the pieces of two different puzzles—impossible to fit together?
Readers who love Sarah Dessen will tear through these pages with hearts in throats as Emmy and Oliver struggle to face the messy, confusing consequences of Oliver’s father’s crime. Full of romance, coming-of-age emotion, and heartache, these two equally compelling characters create an unforgettable story. (goodreads)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Songs/music videos of the week.
Bad Blood - Taylor swift ft. Kendrick Lamar **Girl Power**
Shut Up And Dance - Walk The Moon
I Want You To Know - Zedd Ft. Selena Gomez
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reads This Week.
Summer I turned Pretty by Jenny Han..
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simple a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along. ( Goodreads)... 5/5 stars
It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han..
Can summer be truly summer without Cousins Beach?It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.
But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started--at Cousins Beach. ( Goodreads) ... 5/5 stars.
I need to read the third book. However I loved the first two. Great summer reads. Just what I needed. There fast and interesting reads.
