The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication Date: May 2013
Categories: Literary, Humorous
Source: Harper Perennial via The Next Best Book Club
Description:
It’s 1983 in Berkeley, California. Twenty-year-old Allie Dodgson is a straitlaced college student working part-time at a dress shop to make ends meet. But when the shop turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug-dealing business, Allie finds herself on the lam, speeding toward Los Angeles in her best friend’s Prelude with a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine riding shotgun and a hit man named Vice Versa on her tail. You can’t find a more thrilling summer read!
My Thoughts:
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| Cocaine! |
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| Scary chases! |
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| Bad guys with guns! |
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| Tambourines?? |
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| Billy Idol?!? |
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| The Wonder Bread Summer is a super fun roller coaster ride! |
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| About the Author |
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I can't wait to read this book!
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Sa-weet! I've actually been dying to read this. Billy Idol is a bonus.
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It's a fun one! I think you'll enjoy it 🙂
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I didn't expect Mr. Idol to make an appearance!
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Ahhhh your gif reviews kill me! Tambourines AND Billy Idol? Sign me up!
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I aim to please my little ladybug!
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Looks intense! I love the gifs!
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It is intense! And as fun as can be 😉 Thanks!
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I love all the GIFs. This actually sounds kind of interesting… maybe because I've been watching too much Breaking Bad so I'm all about the drug tales right now, lol.
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LOL, ok. I'm usually down on GIFs but this was masterful.
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I'll make you love them yet missy! 😉
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This does sound like fun!
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It's a total hoot! 😀
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This sounds similar enough to a book I just read (the pace of it) that I would love to read this right now. Love the tambourine, it looks so out of place that's it's very funny.
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Um… sounds like my kinda ride!!! Wicked review!
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Fun review! I graduated from college in '83 so this would take me back to my younger, more exciting days! 😉
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I just got my copy that I won through Armchair BEA, so now I'm even more excited to pick it up.
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That was super easy 🙂 Happy Monday reading!
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It's a crazy little book 😉 The whole tambourine thing, ha ha, it's great!
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Thanks! I had a good time reading this and a good time putting together the gifs 😉
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Oooooh fabulous! Love your gifs!-Rebecca @ Love at First Book
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Thanks!! Oh you'd love this one then! 🙂
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I hope you dig it Shannon, you'll have to let me know 🙂
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Easy peasy! I like things that don't take a lot of effort 😉
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Thank you darlin'!! 😀
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Sounds like a hell of a ride. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
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Love this review!
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I'm down with Billy Idol and tambourines. Sounds like a fun read!
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You bet Brooke 🙂 Good luck!
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Thanks Lisa 😀
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Great combination right?? 😉
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The tambourines have sucked me in. Totally entered the contest.
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Ooh la la! I like the sound of this one! I will have to read it for sure.
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🙂 Good luck Monika!
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Great! I hope you do! 😀
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Judging by your picture review, this does sound like a fun read. And BOO for another comp that excludes me 😥
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If only the postal service didn't charge an ARM AND A LEG for international shipping! 😦
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So cool it's set in the 1980s! Where are my leg warmers and acid wash jeans?
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Ha ha!! Right?! Finger-less gloves and pointy Madonna bras! 😉
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Breaking Bad! I cannot wait for the last episodes…although I'm going to be so bummed when it's over!
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This sounds fabulously over the top. Long live the '80's (and holy cow your FB has a ton of likes, must remind myself not to compare myself to your success). 😉
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It is completely over the top, that's a great way to put it 🙂 I posted a string of crazy popular pictures on my FB page and it went a bit nuts. It was a case of LUCK I'm sure!! 😀
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Perfect gif review! These make our long and strung out word reviews seem so passe.
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Lol, thanks 😉 Sometimes pictures do really speak a thousand words.
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ha, the gifs sum it up perfectly! I so loved that Billy Idol was in this one.
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Me too 😉 It was a nice blast from the 80's to run into him 😉
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