Summer Reading Challenge 2018

Summer Reading Challenge
May to August 2018
sponsored by BookSparks (details)
Facebook | @BookSparks | #SRC2018 | #MargaREADaville
Going to fill my summer days with some of these new releases...

MAY:

Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland
Available May 8

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center - my review | my rating: 5
Available May 15

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll - my review | my rating: 4
Available May 15

JUNE:

How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson
Available June 5

Hidden by Kelli Clare
Available June 5

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
Available June 12

Entangled Moon by E. C. Frey
Available June 12

Providence by Caroline Kepnes - my review | my rating: 5
Available June 19

The Completionist by Siobhan Adcock - my review | my rating: 5
Available June 19

Before and Again by Barbara Delinsky
Available June 26

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
Available June 26

JULY:

Three Days Missing by Kimberly Bell
Available June 26

The Subway Girls by Susie Schnall
Available July 10

Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding - my review | my rating: 4
Available July 10

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
Available July 17

The Light-Keeper's Daughter by Jean E. Pendziwol
Available July 24

She Was the Quiet One by Michelle Campbell
Available July 31

AUGUST:

The Bucket List by Georgia Clark
Available August 7

The Leaving Year by Pam McFaffin
Available August 14

Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey
Available August 21

The Other Woman by Sandie Jones
Available August 21

Better Than This by Cathy Zane
Available August 28

BookSparks Book Club

BookSparks Book Club (details)
APRIL pick:

Cruel Beautiful World
by Caroline Leavitt
-Coming of Age, Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review -coming
MAY pick:

It's Always the Husband
by Michele Campbell
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
JUNE pick:

The People We Hate at the Wedding
by Grant Ginder
-Humor, Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review -DNF
JULY pick: none

AUGUST pick:

Emma in the Night
by Wendy Walker
-Mystery, Thriller
Release date: August 8, 2017
Amazon | Goodreads
SEPTEMBER pick: tba

BookSparks Speaks Out: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Month

BookSparks Speaks Out:
Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Month
(details)
Join BookSparks, author Amy Hatvany and the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC) to #speakout against sexual violence. Sexual violence touches all genders, ages and cultures. One in five women will be raped in their lifetime, and 325,000 children are at risk of commercial sexual exploitation.

How You Can Help:
Author Amy Hatvany's new book, It Happens All the Time, draws from her personal experiences with sexual assault. Purchase her book today, April 19, and send BookSparks your receipt (to alyssa@sparkpointstudio.com). BookSparks will donate 30% of all verified purchases to the KCSARC. Find out more ways you can help (here).

It Happens All the Time
by Amy Hatvany
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads
From master storyteller Amy Hatvany—whose writing has been hailed as “gripping and emotionally honest” (Stephanie Evanovich, New York Times betselling author)—comes a provocative and compelling novel about two friends whose lives are changed by a drunken kiss.

I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Amber Bryant and Tyler Hicks have been best friends since they were teenagers—trusting and depending on each other through some of the darkest periods of their young lives. And while Amber has always felt that their relationship is strictly platonic, Tyler has long harbored the secret desire that they might one day become more than friends.

Returning home for the summer after her college graduation, Amber begins spending more time with Tyler than she has in years. Despite the fact that Amber is engaged to her college sweetheart, a flirtation begins to grow between them. One night, fueled by alcohol and concerns about whether she’s getting married too young, Amber kisses Tyler.

What happens next will change them forever.

In alternating points of view, It Happens All the Time examines the complexity of sexual dynamics between men and women and offers an incisive exploration of gender roles, expectations, and the ever-timely issue of consent.

Summer Reading Challenge 2017

Summer Reading Challenge
May to August 2017
sponsored by BookSparks (details)
Facebook | @BookSparks #SRC2017
The 7th annual reading challenge sponsored by BookSparks is starting up next month!

LOTS are listed for this summer!

Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki -my review

Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan

The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion -DNF

Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson -DNF

It’s Always The Husband by Michele Campbell -my review

In This Moment by Karma Brown

Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica -DNF

The Leavers by Lisa Ko - my review

The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor

The Rules of Half by Jenna Patrick

American Family by Catherine Marshall-Smith

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Proof by C.E. Tobisman

Hello Sunshine by Laura Dave

A Game of Ghosts by John Connolly

Eden by Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

A Work of Art by Micayla Lally

The Captain’s Daughter by Meg Mitchell Moore

The Half-Life of Remorse by Grant Jarrett

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka

Last Seen by J.L. Doucette

Fall Reading Challenge 2016

Fall Reading Challenge
September to December 2016
sponsored by BookSparks
@booksparks #FRC2016
signup & details (here)
The 3rd BookSparks University Fall Reading Challenge sponsored by BookSparks starts September 12!
JOIN in this month!

I LOVE BookSparks reading challenges - so signing up again :-)

Reading list: my picks (complete list here)
Review links go live after posted.

Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris

Course Title: ‘Til Deceit Do Us Part

Department: Psychological Thrillers

Description: Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace – charming, elegant, enviable. But Jack and Grace are inseparable. She never answers the phone, meets you for coffee or leaves the house with anything. Can we ever truly know what goes on behind closed doors?

Amazon | Goodreads

We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly

Course Title: Survival Training

Department: Climate Fiction

Description: Author Meg Little Reilly’s work as President Obama’s deputy communications director, spokesperson for the US Department of the Treasury and with the Environmental Defense Fund shines in this extremely timely, global warming-inspired debut novel. Just months after settling into their new rural home, hipster, Brooklyn couple Ash and Pia face an impending superstorm that splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage.

Amazon | Goodreads | my review -DNF

London Belongs to Me by Jacquelyn Middleton

Course Title: Theatre Writing 101

Department: British Literature

Description: Broken from an unexpected betrayal, Alex Sinclair couldn’t jump on a plane to London fast enough. But when a wealthy rival fueled by ambition and jealousy threatens her career and a fledgling romance, Alex once again questions her self-worth and is left wondering if London is where she truly belongs.

Amazon | Goodreads

The Next by Stephanie Gangi

Course Title: Ghost Stories 101

Department: Paranormal Studies

Description: Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. As she travels beyond memory, beyond desire, she is transformed into a fierce female force of life, determined to know how to die, happily ever after.

Amazon | Goodreads

Unexpected Love by Kristy Kryszczak

Course Title: Sex and the City 101

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: Ready for a SJP-replay? Settle in with this debut novel about Inez, a freelance beauty writer living in NYC who’s navigating life in her thirties and the complicated romances she gets pulled into along the way.

Website

In the Heart of Texas: A Novel by Ginger McKnight-Chavers

Course Title: Pop Culture Conversations

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: In the Heart of Texas is a wry, humorous commentary on the complexities of race, class, relationships, politics, popular culture, and celebrity in our current society. Jo Randolph, the “poor man’s Halle Berry,” has successfully avoided waiting tables since leaving Midland, Texas, but 24 hours of poor decisions in Hollywood send her back home to lay low and reconnect with her roots.

Amazon | Goodreads

Small Admissions: A Novel by Amy Poeppel

Course Title: Keeping Up Appearances

Department: Women’s Fiction Studies

Description: A young woman is unexpectedly thrust into the cutthroat world of New York City private school admissions as she attempts to understand city life, human nature, and falling in love.

Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Summer Reading Challenge 2016

Summer Reading Challenge
May to August 2016
sponsored by BookSparks
details here
The 6th annual reading challenge sponsored by BookSparks @booksparks #SRC2016 #BestSummerEver is starting up next month!

I am excited to say that I will be joining in again :-)

Reading list: my picks
Review links go live after posted.

First Comes Love
by Emily Giffin
-ChickLit
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Don't You Cry
by Mary Kubica
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads

House of Bradbury
by Nicole Meier
-Humor, Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Assistants
by Camille Perri
-ChickLit, New York
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Appetite
by Sheila Grinnell
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

One True Loves
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Everybody Rise
by Stephanie Clifford
-Humor, New York, Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Saving Abby
by Steena Holmes
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads

25 Sense
by Lisa Henthorn
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

The Sweetheart Deal
by Polly Dugan
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads

You Will Know Me
by Megan Abbott
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

So Close
by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
-Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads

All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

A House for Happy Mothers
by Amula Malladi
-Women's Fiction, India
Amazon | Goodreads

The Lucidity Project
by Abbey Campbell Cook
-Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads

Perfectly Good Crime
by Dete Meserve
-Mystery
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Swear On This Life
by Renee Carlino
-New Adult, Romance
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

Clear to Lift
by Anne A. Wilson
-Adventure, Women's Fiction
Amazon | Goodreads
EXTRA:

The Regulars
by Georgia Clark
-Chick-lit
Amazon | Goodreads | my review

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* head over to get more details and to signup for this challenge here - books provided for honest reviews