Today I’m participating in Sam’s WWW Wednesdays. Here’s how it works:
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next, and/or what are you eagerly awaiting?
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I am reading The Perfect Girl, by Gilly MacMillan, a review book from Amazon Vine. Loving it so far.
The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew returns with an electrifying new novel about how the past will always find us…
“Literary suspense at its finest.”—Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Baby
“A wonderfully addictive book with virtuoso plotting and characters – for anyone who loved Girl on the Train, it’s a must read.”
— Rosamund Lupton
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Seems I’m on the “perfect” theme, as my last book was The Perfect Neighbors, by Sarah Pekkanen (click for my review), an e-ARC from NetGalley, to be released July 5.
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What am I eagerly awaiting? I just discovered Jennifer Weiner’s newest, and I’ve bookmarked it. It is a memoir, sort of, with a collection of essays on topics relevant to her own personal experiences. It is Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing.
You know Jennifer Weiner as many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and “an unlikely feminist enforcer” (The New Yorker). She’s also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current runner; a best friend and a reality TV junkie. Here, in her first foray into nonfiction, she takes the raw stuff of her personal life and spins it into a collection of essays on womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Tina Fey, Fran Lebowitz, and Nora Ephron.
Jennifer grew up as an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown (“a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot”) and at her Ivy League college, but finally found her people in newsrooms in central Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and her voice as a novelist, activist, and New York Times columnist.
No subject is off-limits in this intimate and honest essay collection: sex, weight, envy, money, her mom’s late-in-life lesbianism, and her estranged father’s death. From lonely adolescence to modern childbirth to hearing her six-year-old daughter’s use of the f-word—fat—for the first time, Jennifer dives deep into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to readers all over the world.
By turns hilarious and deeply touching, Hungry Heart is about yearning and longing, love and loss, and a woman who searched for her place in the world—and found it as a storyteller.
Coming October 11, 2016.
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What does your Hump Day look like? Come on by and share, please!
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I haven’t read any of these and they’re not my usual kind of books, but enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by my WWW: https://sarinalangerwriter.com/2016/06/29/www-wednesday-29th-june-2016/
Happy reading! 🙂
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Thanks, Sarina…I often find books that are unfamiliar to me on blogs…and sometimes I actually find a new favorite author. Thanks for stopping by.
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I like the sound of Hungry Heart. I haven’t read a memoir since I read Yes Please by Amy Poehler last year, and I thought that was very good. I do try hard to mix some non-fiction into my reading (although I usually fail!).
Thanks for visiting my WWW earlier (https://clairehuston.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/www-wednesday-29th-june-2016/) and happy reading!
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I like to mix things up, too, Claire, and memoirs or collections of essays by authors I enjoy are my first choice.
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your reading.
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i thought hump meant a day when you are not very happy? yet the first book you mention you say you are loving….
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Oh…well, to me, Hump Day was always midweek, and the day to get over to reach the weekend…
That was when I worked….lol. Nowadays, it’s just Wednesday. Thanks for stopping by, Karen, and I am enjoying my books. And my life in which Hump Day is not a bad day. Just a Wednesday.
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love it
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The Perfect Neighbors sounds interesting! I might have to pick that one up! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by earlier. 🙂
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Thanks, Deanna, I really enjoyed it. Hope you do, too…and I’m glad you could stop by.
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I haven’t read any of these books, but I have at least heard of Jennifer Weiner 🙂
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Thanks, Cassie, and I love how I discover new books through these memes. Glad you could stop by.
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I love Jennifer Weiner. Happy reading! Here’s mine https://awondrousbookshelf.com/2016/06/29/www-wednesday-5/
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I haven’t read a nonfiction book by Weiner yet, so I’m looking forward to it, Anna. Thanks for visiting.
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You’re welcome!
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The Perfect Girl sounds like such a great read! Definitely something I would enjoy as well. I hope you’ll enjoy your books this week!
Happy reading! Here’s my WWW.
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The more I read, the better I like it, Yvo. Thanks for stopping by.
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Adding Hungry Heart to my TBR list!
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I was so thrilled to find this one, Mary. Thanks for stopping by.
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I was hoping your next book would be ‘perfect’ too haha. Happy reading!
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Yes, “perfect” follows me now, just as “girls” did earlier! Thanks for stopping by…and hosting, Sam.
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All of your books sound good…my list has just grown longer!
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Yes, definitely, and how will we read all of the books we want to read? Thanks for stopping by, Catherine.
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Love that you have a Perfect theme going on at the moment Laurel – I’ll be reading The Perfect Girl soon too.
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Isn’t it funny how the themes seem to show up in accidental ways? Perfect for this serendipitous blog, lol. Thanks for stopping by, Cleo, and I just finished The Perfect Girl last night. Wow!
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The Perfect Girl sounds like my kind of book. Dark and intriguing. I hope to get it too. I only know Jennifer Weiner’s Good in bed. It was definitely a fun read. I hope that you will enjoy the memoir. Happy reading.
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Thanks, Diana, and I loved The Perfect Girl…and haven’t ever been disappointed by Weiner’s books. Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend.
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All three of these look good and the Jennifer Weiner is a new one to me. Happy Reading!
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Thanks, Heather, I hope you give Weiner a whirl someday. Enjoy your weekend!
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I haven’t heard of these books, but I am definitely interested in checking them out!
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Thanks, Ashley, I’m glad you could stop by…enjoy checking them out!
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You definitely seem to be on a “Perfect” streak! It sounds like both were good reads though! The Jennifer Weiner book looks fantastic! I didn’t realize she had a nonfiction book coming out. I haven’t read any of her fiction but I’ve loved the interviews I’ve heard.
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Yes, I like how “perfect” it has been! lol. Thanks for stopping by, Katherine. I haven’t been disappointed in any of Weiner’s books.
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Looks like you’ve had a great week of reading, and another to come!
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Thanks, Charlie, it has been a better week this week.
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