The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau ~Gifs & Giveaway~

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The Wonder Bread Summer by Jessica Anya Blau
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication Date: May 2013
Categories: Literary, Humorous
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:

Cocaine!

Scary chases!
Bad guys with guns!
Tambourines??

Billy Idol?!?
The Wonder Bread Summer is a super fun roller coaster ride!

About the Author

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Weekly Wrap-Up 07/14/13

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Reviews:

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown


Currently Reading:
I’ll be finishing this up today! 
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Upcoming:

The same books that I listed last week, ARGH! And the following beauties:

Please ignore the shoddy quality of this photo. 
I normally don’t share braggy LOOK AT MY BOOKS pictures. I can’t help myself this week because I’ve received some books that I’m crazy looking forward to! 
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
The Measures Between Us by Ethan Hauser
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (I actually whooped for joy when I opened this one!)

Bookish/Bloggish Business:

I’ve been a busy bee this week. I haven’t had as much reading time as usual. It’s okay though, I’m busy with good stuff! Haircut, pedicure, Big Brother 15, and a visit with my mom and sister.

Damn you Big Brother. I swore I was done with you when you started casting 20 year old hard bodies exclusively. Bah. I blame my youngest daughter. “Just watch the first episode with me Mom!” Uh huh.

You’ve probably heard about the extremely racist comments that some of the house-guests on BB15 have been making. It’s incredibly upsetting. That’s all I can say about it for now because it makes my stomach hurt and my hands shake.

I woke up to hear about the Zimmerman verdict and about the death of Cory Monteith. I have no words.