Can’t Wait Wednesday – THIS COULD BE US by Kennedy Ryan
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. It is a meme that I have loved participating in since I first started blogging, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
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My selection for this week is THIS COULD BE US by Kennedy Ryan. I absolutely loved the first book in this series and was thrilled to find out that we’re now going to get Soledad’s story.
THIS COULD BE US by Kennedy Ryan
by Forever
Publication Date: March 5, 2024
“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She’s too busy keeping a roof over her daughters’ heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.
But then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to resist. She’s lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself ?
After all she’s lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?
For fans of Tia Williams and Colleen Hoover comes a deeply moving and personal novel about sacrifice, self-reliance, and finding true happiness from “one of the finest romance writers of our age.” ― Entertainment Weekly
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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂
Top Ten Tuesday – Some of My Recent Favorite Books Set in NYC
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is Books Set In X (Pick a setting and share books that are all set there. This could be a specific continent or country, a state, in outer space, underwater, on a ship or boat, at the beach, etc.). I decided to go with my favorite city in the world, New York City, and since I’ve probably done a similar topic in the past, I decided to focus on more recent favorites.
Ten of My Recent Favorite Books Set in NYC
1. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS by Mary Kay Andrews
2. THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP by Ashley Poston
3. THE SPECTACULAR by Fiona Davis
4. ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston
6. MADE IN MANHATTAN by Lauren Layne
7. THE AMERICAN ROOMMATE EXPERIMENT by Elena Armas
8. EMMA OF 83RD STREET by Audrey Bellezza & Emily Harding
9. A WINTER IN NEW YORK by Josie Silver
10. IN A NEW YORK MINUTE by Kate Spencer
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Question: Do you have a favorite city, state, or country for book settings?
Top Ten Tuesday – Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books. This is a great topic for this week since we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving here in the U.S. later this week.
Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books
1. Books provide me with the ultimate escape when reality is just too much to deal with. I think they saved my mental health during the pandemic.
2. Books have led this introvert to find her people in the online bookish community. I’m so thankful for all of you!
3. Audiobooks have given me a way to make even the most mundane tasks like driving and folding laundry less tedious.
4. Because of books, we have libraries, which are one of the greatest community resources we have.
5. Along similar lines, because of books, we have bookstores, which are my favorite places to quietly browse when I’m out and about and decide I need some downtime.
6. Books of all genres always give me food for thought, which I think is so important. Sometimes they reaffirm something I already believe, but often times, they challenge me to think about something in a different way.
7. Books appeal to my sense of wanderlust and allow me to travel to places I’ll probably never make it to in my real life.
8. Even though books provide me great comfort, they have also led me to expand my horizons technologically speaking, in terms of creating this blog and constant troubleshooting it, starting a bookstagram account, etc. I never could have imagined myself doing any of that if not for my intense love of books.
9. Books teach me so much. I read a lot of historical fiction and I love that I’m always learning new things about historical events that I thought I was pretty well-schooled in.
10. I’m speaking mainly of my own community here, but I love when people are passionate enough about books that when someone in a position of authority advocates the banning and burning of books, they can band together and vote that person out of office.
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