"Waiting On" Wednesday: Beach Trip

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Beach Trip

By Cathy Holton

Publication Date: May 12

From Amazon:

"For four college friends, a beach trip promises a chance to reconnect and reminisce. Having traveled distinct and diverse paths since the early 1980s and their freshman days at a small Southern women’s college, the quartet—now in their forties—reunites for the first time in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Over the course of a week they eat, drink, laugh, and cry. But one by one each reveals the hardship and heartache she’s hidden from the others. And one secret threatens to change their lives, and their bond, forever."

What's your "waiting on" pick this week?

Leave a comment with either the link to your own "Waiting On" Wednesday post or just your answer (if you don't have a blog).

Library Loot: 3-22

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by A Striped Armchair and Out of the Blue that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.

I came home from the beach to find eight books waiting for me:

It Will Come to Me by Emily Fox Gordon

The Cradle by Patrick Somerville

The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano

Bridge of Sand by Janet Burroway

The Believers by Zoe Heller

The Stepmother by Carrie Adams

Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn

Cooking in the South by Johnnie Gabriel

A Quote a Day: Day 7

From Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton:

"The trick to making someone happy, and making yourself happy in the bargain, is to bring them not only what they ask for, but to bring them extras."


Hope you guys enjoyed this as much as I did! Want even more? Visit this older Booking Through Thursday post with five more of my favorite book quotes.

A Quote a Day: Day 6

From Cooking for Mr. Latte by Amanda Hesser:

"Eating well is not as much about good food as it is about the people you share that food with, the room you dine in, what you talk about, and the emotional hungers that you bring to the table."

A Quote a Day: Day 5

From Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons:

"They are love, those rare blinding early friendships. Not everyone has them, and almost no one gets more than one. The others, the later ones, are not the same. These first grow in a soil found only in the country of the young and are possible only there, because their medium is unbroken time and proximity and discovery. Later, there is not enough of any of those for the total, ongoing immersions that these friendships are...These friendships may continue past first youth, but I don't think they often do. Their primary strength is that fire of exploration and validation. The friend becomes a cicerone, to go with you down to the bottom of your deepest depths and out to the farthest crannies of your being. All your senses are open, all your reservoirs fill up at a prodigious rate, all your motors hum."

A Quote a Day: Day 4

From Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells:

"I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be?"

"Waiting On" Wednesday: The Last Bridge

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

The Last Bridge

By Teri Coyne

Publication Date: July 28

From Amazon:

"After a ten-year absence, Alex “Cat” Rucker returns to her Ohio hometown because of a letter left on her mother’s kitchen table—a suicide note, carefully preserved in a Ziploc bag. While Alex tries to repress the memories of her brutal childhood—an abusive father, her estranged (and possibly illegitimate) brother, and the first love who would do anything to save her—she must face just how shattered she still is. At each step Alex confronts her biggest fears, realizes the impact of her choices, and inches closer to redemption. Can she embrace her vulnerabilities, talents, and desire for love, or will the revelations of her mother’s cryptic note prove too overwhelming for her to bear? The Last Bridge is a perfect blend of suspense, despair, and romance—and at its heart lies the question: are we a product of our experiences or our choices?"

What's your "waiting on" pick this week?

Leave a comment with either the link to your own "Waiting On" Wednesday post or just your answer (if you don't have a blog).

A Quote a Day: Day 3

From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

"In Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Augusta, they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Macon, they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But, in Savannah, the first question people ask you is, 'What would you like to drink?'"

A Quote a Day: Day 2

From Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy:

"I always felt an ineluctable guilt when I was just taking it easy in New York when all those grand museums, libraries, plays, concerts, and that whole vast of infinitude of cultural opportunities beckoned me with promises of enrichment."

Weekly Geeks: A Quote a Day

I saw that last week's Weekly Geeks theme was A Quote a Day. I got in too late in the week to participate, so I thought I'd just run mine a week late. I keep a book of favorite quotes that I'm constantly adding to, so this idea really appealed to me. This goes both ways...I'd love to hear your favorites, too!

First up...Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin

"The feeling wasn't so different from the one I sometimes got during the reading of a really wonderful novel, when I would come across a character or a situation that so thoroughly filled the requirements of my imagination that I would have to stop and lay the book facedown on my chest and take a deep breath before going on."