Top 10 Books I Want to Read in 2019

For my Instagram post of the #Top10of2018, here are the Top 10 Books I Want to Read in 2019. 

Links to Goodreads

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Last Girl Lied To by L.E. Flynn

No Place Like Here by Christina June

Only A Breath Apart by Katie McGarry

The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World by Amy Reed

The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves

Three Little Words by Jenny Holiday

With the Fire on High by Elizebeth Acevedo

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'd Like Santa to Leave under the Tree

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because they are particularly fond of lists. I am too so that is why I am participating this week.

Top Ten Books I'd Like Santa to Leave under the Tree

Words and Their Meanings by Kate Bassett

I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler

Tonight the Streets are Ours by Leila Sales

When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriquez

Far from You by Tess Sharp

Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines

A Matter of Heart by Amy Fellner Dominey

Kiss of Broken Glass by Madeleine Kuderick

Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromley

What books do you want to find under your tree?

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I'd Like Santa to Bring

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because they are particularly fond of lists. I am too so that is why I am participating this week.

Top Ten Books I'd Like Santa to Bring

All of these books are on my Christmas wishlist or were on my Secret Santa wishlists. And I'm pretty sure that one of these books is in my stocking right now!!!

 

 Racing Savannah by Miranda Kenneally

Crash Into You by Katie McGarry

Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality by Elizabeth Eulsberg

Golden by Jessi Kirby

Playing Dirty by Jennifer Echols

Fire with Fire by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

The Right and the Real by Joelle Anthony

Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

Living with Jackie Chan by Jo Knowles

Until It Hurts to Stop by Jennifer R. Hubbard

What books to you hope Santa will bring to you?

In My Mailbox (16)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox or doorstep or directly into our hot little hands.

For Review:

The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins

London Deep by Robin Price and Paul McGrory

The Last Hunter - Descent by Jeremy Robinson (e-book)

Purchased:

Psych Major Syndrome by Alicia Thompson

Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart

(Random Buzzers Buzz Bucks)

Gifted:

Just Breathe by Susan Wiggs

Secret Santa Purchases! and they're on the way!

This week was a stellar week for books! I happened upon a gift certificate (ok, my husband spoils me) and I finally got a copy of Psych Major Syndrome. It was been on my wishlist for months! I also received Just Breathe from my mom. She had no idea that I have been eyeing the book for a while now (I love the cover), and she showed up to my house with it, just out of the blue!  And I also received some books for review that I can't wait to dive into! As for the Secret Santa gifts, well, I may have gone a bit overboard (it was my first time participating). My husband thinks so, but I was excited to buy books for someone that I know will love them!

So, what did you get in your mailbox this week?

My Wish List

I keep lists of books I want to read everywhere - on my i-Touch, in my phone, in my readers notebook, on scraps of paper - basically wherever/on whatever is handy at the moment (I've even written titles on my hand when I didn't have anything else). Some of these books I've found from browsing the bookstore, checking out books club reading lists, recommendations from friends, reviews from magazines, and the many blogs I visit daily. So that I don't lose my lists or forget books that I have come across in blogs, I am going to catalog them here.

I'm sure this list will be ever growing and ever changing as I hope to move them to my Books Read lists.
I'd love to see what is on your Wish List. Feel free to leave a comment and a link to your blog.





6 by Karen Tayleur
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
13 to Life by Shannon Delaney
Aces Up by Lauren Barnholdt
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Stream
Beige by Cecil Castellucci
Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci
Breathless by Jessica Warman
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Crashing by Chris Wooding
Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt
Getting the Girl by Markus Zusak
GraffitiMoon by Cath Crowley



Hold Still by Nina LaCour
Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Love Drugged by James Klise
Model Home by Eric Puchner
Playing with Matches by Brian Katcher
Plus by Veronica Chambers
Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
Rich and Mad by William Nicholson
Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
The Best and Hardest Thing by Pat Brisson
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams - I actually got this one at the library but had to return it before I got around to reading it
The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta
The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer (April 5, 2011)
Thief by Brian James
Trapped by Michael Northrop
Watch Me by Lauren Barnholdt
Whaletalk by Chris Crutcher
When Jeff Comes Home by Catherine Atkins

In My Mailbox (7)

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme run by The Story Siren which explores the books that have been delivered to our mailbox or doorstep or directly into our hot little hands.

Purchased:

Songs for a Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson

Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian
Perfect World by Brian James

Library:

We Were Here by Matt de la Pena

After reading and loving Siobhan Vivian's Not That Kind of Girl, I wanted to read more of her books, so I bought Same Difference. I also checked out We Were Here from the university library. I can always find great books there.Perfect World has been on my Wish List for a long time, so I finally decided to get it. Songs for a Teenage Nomad was a recent discovery, so I treated myself to that one too.

What did you get?

 

Review: Absolutely Maybe By Lisa Yee

Absolutely Maybe

by Lisa Yee

Publication Date: February 1, 2009

Published by Arthur L. Levine Books

Pages 288

Source: Library

Purchase Amazon /  Indiebound

(from Goodreads)

Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara.
Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is - or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend.
So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) - and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring... vintage Lisa Yee. 

My Thoughts

I came across this book on a Goodreads Giveaway. I didn't win the contest, but I put it in my wishlist notebook so I wouldn't forget about it. Then, when I saw it was on the New Arrivals shelf at my local library, I grabbed it up.

Cover: I am a sucker for bright, red hair and love that about the girl on the cover. It makes me think of Angela on MSCL, "It's not red, it's Crimson Glow." Maybe would say, "It's not red, it's Jamaica Kool-Aid." The girl depicted fits the description of Maybe in the novel, but I questioned the size of the girl pictured. Maybe sees herself as more fleshy and she always dresses herself in a "Men's Beefy Hanes T-Shirt (XL)", but as you read more about the story, the girl pictured makes sense. The Hollywood star is misleading because it implies that Maybe is going to Hollywood for fame when that is not the case at all.

Favorite Line/Quote/Scene: Said by Willow to Maybe, "I hate the Santa Anas and so does Sammy, but they're coming and there's nothing we can do to stop them." After hearing this, Maybe spends the next 4 hours cleaning the house from top to bottom and finished right before the housekeeper shows up.

I really liked reading Absolutely Maybe because you could see Maybe's independence develop throughout the novel. At the beginning of the book, Maybe's individuality is misunderstood by her mother and by the people of her community with the exception of her two friends, Ted and Hollywood. When a terrible confrontation between Maybe and her mother results in Maybe running off with her friends for the summer, you think that she will have a summer filled with adventures while searching for her father. But Ted and Hollywood have their own agendas, leaving Maybe to search for her father and find her own way to survive the summer and her future.

While some parts of the book were more believable than others (like all of the good fortune that fell upon Ted, I mean, come on, really?), I did like the book. And I am still curious what, if anything , will happen between Maybe and Hollywood.