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Waiting on Wednesday: Daisy Jones & The Six

February 27, 2019

Waiting on Wednesday was created by Breaking the Spine, and is now hosted by Wishful Endings (as Can’t Wait Wednesday). It’s a feature where they discuss one of the most anticipated upcoming book releases. The anticipated book release is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid!

Catnopsis

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

Why I’m Waiting

My heart is bursting with fangirl excitement for Daisy Jones and the Six because I live for rock star romances. I was a Hanson groupie from 1997-2000 (Not a naughty groupie!) and I always dreamed of marrying Zac Hanson, read bad Hanson fanfiction, and watched Almost Famous on repeat!

Throughout my years of growing up, I had a fascination with the 60s and 70s, dramatic True Hollywood Story documentaries such as the one on Fleetwood Mac, and I daydreamed about being around for the Bob Dylan concert where he grew famous for playing the electric guitar in a folk concert. I know I am a bit extra now but I am going to be all over this book the second it is released on March 5th!

My excitement is also now quadrupled because Taylor Jenkins Reid is coming near my hometown March 12th to Books and Books in Coral Gables! She is the author that made me fall in love with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and I am so excited for Daisy Jones & the Six that I am 90% confident that I am going to finish this book by the time I meet her! I know I always say that I am going to finish authors books by the time I meet them and don’t always fall through but I am way BEYOND excited for her book release!

What is your “can’t-wait-Wednesday” fangirl-crazy books?! Chat with me and tell me about the book releases your crazy about!

Meeting Leigh Bardugo

February 1, 2019

My TBR for this year of 2019 was to read Leigh Bardugo’s books and I am happy to report that I read exactly one book and that is Smoke and Bone! So I had a very elaborate schedule of how I was going to read Bardugo’s books before meeting her for the January 31st King of Scars book signing and that was a big fail! Although I don’t feel as guilty about not reading the whole trilogy because my favorite booktuber readbyzoe also only read Shadow and Bone and she is one of the biggest booktubers our there so I don’t feel so bad!

Finally Meeting Leigh Bardugo…

The event kicked off at 6:30 and it began in the fan meetup room which was the cutest meetup ever! They had everything from a cute photobooth area, a place to pick up bookish pins and fun quizzes (Apparently I am part of the Etherealki order.) to find out what Grishaverse order you belong in, a Leigh Bardugo merchandise section with all her other books, and my fave booktube girls were there! Zoe from readbyzoe, Hailey from Hailey in Bookland, and Hannah from a Clockwork Reader were there!

And of course the piece de resistance…the King of Scars book!!! EEEK!

After the most epic fan meetup of my dreams, we finally got to hear the Queen of the Grishaverse Leigh Bardugo discuss her new upcoming book King of Scars! I thought the discussion setup was very interactive because the discussion focused on Q&A’s primarily! Since I have only read Smoke and Bone, I was completely lost throughout most of the Q&A because the questions were mostly made up of Six of Crows! Even though, I am not well-versed in the land of Bardugo I am still deliriously happy to be a part of this event and to delve into her books and find out who this Kaz is from Six of Crows! There were many questions about Kaz and fangirling over Kaz! I am definitely very interested to find out more about this KAZ!

My friends and I waited for about an hour for the Leigh Bardugo book signing and we took some fun bookish pictures and met some awesome bookish fangirls!

Finally, I had the opportunity to get face to face with the Grisha queen!

During the book signing, I told her that Shadow and Bone is the only book I have read from the Grishaverse and that I am completely obsessed with the Darkling! Bardugo smirked and said, “You have a long road ahead of you.” Those eight words have further confirmed the fact that I have to finish the rest of the Grishaverse asap and not prolong the series the way that I prolong every series that I have ever read…or not read yet…eeek

And just to top it all off after we got our book signed, we were gifted an adorable cookie inspired by the King of Scars book! Needless to say, after the book signing we were famished and we stopped by one of my favorite bars in Coral Gables to have a beer and when I got home I literally fed my demons with this delectable Leigh Bardugo cookie!

Tell me if you have ever been to a Leigh Bardugo signing and let me know what are your favorite books by Leigh Bardugo! And maybe give me some information about this Kaz I keep hearing about! If he is better than the Darkling then I am very intrigued!

Giveaway Time and Meeting Tomi Adeyemi and Elizabeth Acevedo!

March 24, 2018

Now if you have been reading my blog you know that I am always going to book events in Books and Books in Coral Gables! I have to say that this book event was one of my favorites of the year so far!

Loved seeing my book club friend introduce the authors @mynameismarines!

Sitting with my book club friend Aurora!

On March 14th at 7 pm, Tomi Adeyemi from Children of Blood and Bone and Elizabeth Acevedo from Poet X did a book talk and book signing! At the time, I was 70 pages away (I am dying now and waiting desperately for the second book!) from finishing Children of Blood and Bone and to say that I was excited to meet Tomi Adeyemi was an understatement! The world building in this book is incredible, the character development is on point, and the plot is riveting from beginning to end! One of the things that I loved about this book is that it has themes that are socially relevant to our society today such as how divided our society is because of hate. If you want to know more about this African fantasy and get hooked into the land of Orisha please click here!

Meeting these women was such an honor because they are such articulate and beautiful women inside and out. From the moment these women opened their mouths they spoke the truth of how their books represent our reality when it comes to religion, discrimination, family dynamics, and how hate is infiltrating our society. They even spoke about the Parkland shooting and how these kids should be running our country and they were making me laugh the whole time with all the jokes they cracked!

I fell in love with these eloquent women after meeting them especially Elizabeth Acevedo! This woman was a powerhouse! She writes slam poetry and her book Poet X consist of slam poetry and it’s a coming of age novel about a girl growing up in a Dominican family named Xiomara who discovers her own love of slam poetry! Since I was mainly there for Tomi Adeyemi I didn’t know about the brilliance of Ms. Acevedo! When I heard Elizabeth Acevedo speak about Poet X I immediately ran out to buy a copy of Poet X before the book signing! The writing is so brutally honest and her words exemplify the beauty and pain of growing up. I am not someone that usually reads poetry but the raw and soulful honesty of her words captured me and I hope to read more from her in the future! Do yourself a favor and read this book now!

Luckily I am hosting a giveaway for Children of Blood and Bone! I have a signed copy of the Children of Blood and Bone! The rules to enter the giveaway, are to 1) Subscribe to my blog 2) Leave a comment below about one of these epic books or both! The winner will be chosen at random and the giveaway will end on April 7th! Look forward to announcing the winner and reading your comments! Only lower 48 states apply.