ARC August Update: Week Two

Hey, everyone! I hope you've all had a relaxing weekend! We're moving on to week three of Read.Sleep.Repeat's ARC August, so it's time for me to give you a small recap of Week Two.

ARC Review: Emma in the Night

Title: Emma in the Night

Author: Wendy Walker

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Publication Date: August 8, 2017

Source: Giveaway Win from Publisher

From the bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back...

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime.

ARC August Update: Week One

Hey, everyone! We're just under a week into the Fifth Annual ARC August, hosted by Read.Sleep.Repeat.

I don't know about you, but this is my favorite reading event of the year... well this and ARC April... because I can just motivate myself to read ALL THE ARCS. And if they don't work for me, I move on. 

Today, I'm here to bring you my first of five ARC August Updates. For the most part, you'll be seeing these updates on Sundays, except for the last one, which will be posted on August 31. In these posts, I'll just give you little updates on what ARCs I've been reading, how I've been feeling about the challenge, and how I'm staying on task. Alright... let's get to it, shall we?

ARC August 2017: Sign Up and Books I Want to Read

It's that time of the year again... no, I don't mean the end of summer! I mean it's time for ARC August!

Blog Tour: Wish

Title: Wish

Author: Barbara O'Connor

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Publication Date: August 30, 2016

Source: Publisher for Review

Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true. That is until she meets Wishbone, a skinny stray dog who captures her heart, and Howard, a neighbor boy who proves surprising in lots of ways. Suddenly Charlie is in serious danger of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.

ARC August Update: Weeks Two and Three

Hey, everyone! As you know, I'm participating in Read.Sleep.Repeat's ARC August again this year. If you're not familiar with the event, it's a motivational reading event that is geared towards getting bloggers and reviewers to read and review all those ARCs.

ARC August Update: Week One

Hey, everyone! As you know, I'm participating in Read.Sleep.Repeat's ARC August again this year. If you're not familiar with the event, it's a motivational reading event that is geared towards getting bloggers and reviewers to read and review all those ARCs.

ARC August 2016: Sign Up and Books I Want to Read

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to sign up for a reading challenge, right? Well... That's kind of how I've been rolling this summer. So on this last night of July (P.S. Happy Birthday to Harry Potter and Jo Rowling!), I bring you all my sign up for ARC August.

ARC August - Final Update

Hey there, everyone! I hope you enjoyed your last few days of August. Can you believe that September is literally right on our heels? With that, it's time for another ARC August update! Sadly, this is my last ARC August update for the year, but I still have quite a few ARCs to read over the next few months. I'll definitely be reading them and reviewing them.

Now, in case you missed out on all of the ARC August posts, I'll fill you in before I give you my final update:

• It's an annual event hosted by Octavia and Shelly at Read.Sleep.Repeat 
• Participants try to read as many ARCs (advance reader copies) as they can during the month 

You can find my sign-up post with my TBR here, and you'll be able to tell that I didn't have the most successful ARC August. (Oh well... it was my first one, and there's always next year!) You'll also be able to find my weekly updates in my blog archive.

ARC Review: Dumplin'

Title: Dumplin'

Author: Julie Murphy

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Publication Date: September 15, 2015

Source: Books for Trade from Ashley

Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.

Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several other unlikely candidates—to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she’ll shock the hell out of Clover City—and maybe herself most of all.

With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine— Dumplin’ is guaranteed to steal your heart.

ARC Review: Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle

Title: Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle

Series: Vivian Apple

Author: Katie Coyle

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

Source: HMH for Review Purposes

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“GET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we’re willing to break our hands in the metaphorical punching of its metaphorical face.”  —Harpreet Janda, fugitive   

The predicted Rapture by Pastor Frick’s Church of America has come and gone, and three thousand Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend, Harpreet, are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church’s diabolical power grab . . . and to locate Viv’s missing heartthrob, Peter Ivey. This fast-paced, entertaining sequel to Vivian Apple at the End of the World challenges readers to consider how to live with integrity in a disintegrating world. 

ARC Review: A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Title: A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

Source: ARC from Bloomsbury

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Pram Bellamy is special—she can talk to ghosts. She doesn’t have too many friends amongst the living, but that’s all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix.

Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram’s power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost.

Lauren DeStefano is beloved by critics and readers alike, and her middle grade debut is lyrical, evocative and not to be missed.

ARC August Update: Week Three

Hey there, everyone! It's time for another ARC August update! I kind of forgot about a week two post, but today, I'm filling you in on how I've been doing since my first ARC August update post, which can be found here.

In case you don't remember or if you haven't heard of ARC August, here's the key information that you need:

• It's an annual event hosted by Octavia and Shelly at Read.Sleep.Repeat 
• Participants try to read as many ARCs (advance reader copies) as they can during the month 

You can find my sign-up post with my TBR here, and see how I'm doing with my reading progress.

ARC Review: The Boy Most Likely To

Title: The Boy Most Likely To

Companion To: My Life Next Door

Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers

Publication Date: August 18, 2015

Source: Penguin Teen for Review
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Surprises abound and sparks ignite in the highly anticipated, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Door

Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To:
- find the liquor cabinet blindfolded
- need a liver transplant
- drive his car into a house

Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To:
- well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.

For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.

Then the unexpected consequences of Tim’s wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isn’t all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have.

And Alice is caught in the middle.

Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the world of My Life Next Door is a story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more. 

ARC August Update - Week One

Hey, you with the pretty face! Did you remember when I said I'd be participating in ARC August? No?! Well I am, and today, I'm bringing you my first update of the month. Albeit, it's kind of a short update, but I've managed to read one ARC with my busy life right now. (Seriously... it's been so busy... I had a birthday, I've been applying for teaching jobs like crazy, and I've got a few personal things going on. It's insane!)

In case you don't remember or if you haven't heard of ARC August, here's the key information that you need:

• It's an annual event hosted by Octavia and Shelly at Read.Sleep.Repeat 
• Participants try to read as many ARCs (advance reader copies) as they can during the month

ARC August TBR

Hey, everyone! I've been really busy lately, and because of that, I'm probably one of the last ones to let you know, but I'm participating in my first ever ARC August this year! And this event couldn't have come at a better time because I have a pile of ARCs waiting for me to read them.

You may remember that at this point last year, I'd only been blogging for a few weeks, and I'd already read the few ARCs that I had in my possession. So that means that I am extremely excited to be able to join in on all of the ARC August fun.