Week of Heat Waves – #WeeklyWrapUp
Hello Reades! I hope you all had great week. My week has been slow but cozy. My kid’s school announced early summer vacation because of the hot weather. It has been terribly hot with 41 °C(105) to 45 °C (113) whole week. You can say it was week of heat waves. I haven’t been out of AC room unless necessary. I couldn’t read as much as I wanted to and slow book didn’t help much. I received some interesting NetGalley widget looking perfect for summer read. I plan to participate in 20 books of summer ’22 hosted by Cathy @746 books. I haven’t decided which books I’ll read but I’m sure I’ll include those summer books along with old NetGalley books that I still haven’t read. I’ll write a sign up post later this month. There isn’t anything new to update.
Books I Read Last Week
A Sunrise Over Bali by Sandy Barker
This was slow and cozy. Setting of Bali is the best part. I love author explored places and included activities that aren’t found in brochers. All characters are lovely. I love the concept of digital nomads and main character on self-discovery journey, finding place she can call home. But it fell flat. There isn’t even much drama or big suspense that keeps readers hooked to sory. Story is super simple and felt too drawn out. I might rate this 3 or 3.5.
Currently Reading
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
From that synopsis I get the feel of emotional contemporary read. I’m just few chapters in book and I like alternative Now and Before chapters. I’m already curious to know what happened between Percy and Sam that cause break up, what mistake Percy made and how they’re going to face each other again after 12 years.
Carry On (Simon Snow #1) by Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who’s ever been chosen.
That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he’s probably right.
Half the time, Simon can’t even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor’s avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there’s a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon’s face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it’s their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon’s infuriating nemesis didn’t even bother to show up.
Carry On – The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell story – but far, far more monsters.
I need my comfort genre! Specially now after almost whole month of romance and contemporary books. I can’t possibly read Every Summer After without my comfort net. I read first 3 chapters this morning, I’m thrown into the Watford world, not sure about few things yet but Simon is already making me smile. I can’t wait to see where this is going.
Next this Week
I haven’t decided what I’ll read next yet. I’ll just focus on finishing these current reads.
Thank you for reading! Let’s chat..,
Have you read any of these books or added to TBR?
What are you reading this week?
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Hi, I'm Yesha, an Indian book blogger. Avid and eclectic reader who loves to read with a cup of tea. Not born reader but I don't think I’m going to stop reading books in this life. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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Krysta
Wow! That’s a heat wave for sure! I don’t think I’d be able to read at all. I would just sit there and think about icebergs…
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It’s always this terrible here. I read and think about iceberg too.
Lashaan Balasingam @ Roars and Echoes
The weather sounds insane! Is it abnormal this time of the year? I can’t imagine how it might be there during the summer months! 😮
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It’s actually normal. March to August is summer for us. Heat keeps increasing from March till June and after rain it’s himid and sticky but still a bit hot until actual winter.
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Carla
OMG, that is definitely hot. I wouldn’t leave the air conditioning either. I hope it cools down soon Yesha.
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no hope for rain or bearable weather yet. Summers are long here.
WendyW
Those certainly are warm temperatures. I hope you get some cooler weather soon. I’m glad you’re enjoying Every Summer After.
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it’s hot like hell. Yesterday it was 47. Max so far thus summer. I enjoyed Every Summer After.
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Rosepoint Publishing
ugh, i hate those temps too, Yesha. we went from heater in the morning to break the chill to 90 degrees (F) in one day (with humidity!). literally winter to summer, no time to adjust. i keep waiting to see rain on the western end of the US. when we lived in California, we experienced a seven year drought. they have exceeded that now. fires will be horrible–already started. from ice to fire!
Books Teacup and Reviews
That sounds bad. I hate all drastic changes in weather.
Tessa
That’s so hot. You wouldn’t be able to get me out of the AC either. Have a great (hopefully cooler) week!
Books Teacup and Reviews
Thank you! I hope this time rain comes early. We don’t get relief even with rain as it get too humid and sticky but still it feels better than hot summer.
Kaya @ afictionalbookworm
oh no, heatwaves are the WORST. i hope you enjoy your upcoming reads!💜
Books Teacup and Reviews
They are terrible here. I hope so too. Happy reading!
Bookstooge
Good luck surviving the heat. I don’t know how humanity survived before A/C 🙂
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It hasn’t been this bad before AC. All climate change, pollution and everything has made it worst.
Teri Polen
I loved the whole Simon Snow series, Yesha – hope you enjoy it just as much. Those characters are so addictive! I wouldn’t be leaving the AC either with temps like that. Hope you get a break in the heat wave soon.
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I have whole series. I can’t binge read them but I hope to rfinish them by July.
No relief this month. It will be like this for whole month. Tomorrow temp is going 1 or 2 degree higher than this. We get little relief in June end or July.
Rae Longest
Have you read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell? It is about a college freshman obsessed with Snow and who write fan fiction based on the novels. She has Simon and Baz as lovers! Right, it’s a great YA novel and I’m almost finished with it.
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Nope, I have that and I read in author’s note in the back that Simon is mentioned in Fangirl through main character’s fanfic series.
I thought I will read Fangirl first but then I was in mood for Carry On and in a way it’s working to my advatage as I don’t know anything about Simon and Baz, I’m more intrigued to know their story.
Rae Longest
Isn’t it fun how one book leads to another and another and another???
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Yes, it’s great and I love when it happens.
Shalini
Some good books. It has been so hot for us too
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I so wish I can hibernate for whole summer and come back to life when there is pleasant weather or even better, in winter.
Lay @ bookshelfsoliloquies
Uff, that heatwave sounds exhausting! I don’t do well in summer at all, my brain just melts. My reading has been a little all over the place but I’m also trying to wrap up my current reads, prioritising I Kissed Shara Wheeler and Long Story Short because they’re both ARCs that I want to review asap!
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I hate summer. Only positive thing about it is Mangoes. I keep seeing those two books. I hope you enjoy them.