My Weekly Pull [154] & Can't-Wait Wednesday [129]

 

My Weekly Pull is something I do every Wednesday to show which comics I had pulled for me that week! If you're into comics, or you're looking to start, please join me! If you decide to do your own post, there's a link-up at the bottom. I would love to stop by and check it out!

Goosebumps Secrets of the Swamp #5 by Marieke Nijkamp, Yasmin Flores Montanez, Bill Underwood

Undiscovered Country #12 by Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Giuseppe

Scarenthood #4 by Nich Roche

Daredevil #27 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Mike Hawthorne

Jacob's comics for the week!

Transformers Escape #2 by Brian Ruckley, Bethany McGuire-Smith, Anna Malkova

Kick-Ass vs. Hit-Girl #4 by Steve Niles, Marcelo Frusin, John Romita Jr.

Amazing Spider-Man #59 by Nick Spencer, Marcelo Ferriera, Mark Bagley

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #114 by Sophie Campbell, Kevin Eastman

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly feature that's hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings. It highlights the upcoming releases we're really excited about reading! CWW is a spinoff of the feature Waiting on Wednesday (WoW), that was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

With You All the Way by Cynthia Hand

Expected publication: March 30th 2021 by HarperTeen

Synopsis (via Goodreads): Ada’s life is a mess. She just caught her boyfriend cheating on her after a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity, and she’s had it up to here with her gorgeous older sister’s unsolicited advice.

But things really hit the fan during a family vacation in Hawaii, where Ada discovers her own mother is having an affair. Apparently, everyone is falling into bed with people they shouldn’t. Everyone except Ada. But when Ada decides she’s going to stop trying and start doing—sex, that is—her best laid plan overlooks an inconvenient truth:

Feelings, romantic or not, always get in the way.

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My Weekly Pull [153] & Can't-Wait Wednesday [128]

 

My Weekly Pull is something I do every Wednesday to show which comics I had pulled for me that week! If you're into comics, or you're looking to start, please join me! If you decide to do your own post, there's a link-up at the bottom. I would love to stop by and check it out!

Specter Inspectors #1 by Bowen McCurdy, Kaitylyn Musto

King in Black Gwenom vs. Carnage #2 by Seanan McGurie, Flaviano, Ken Lashley

Jacob's comics for the week!

Venom #33 by Donny Cates, Iban Coello

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jennika II #4 by Ronda Pattison, Jodie Nishijima

Transformers Beast Wars #1 by Erik Burnham, Josh Burcham, Dan Schoening

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly feature that's hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings. It highlights the upcoming releases we're really excited about reading! CWW is a spinoff of the feature Waiting on Wednesday (WoW), that was started by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch

Expected publication: April 6th 2021 by Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Synopsis (via Goodreads): Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, heartfelt, and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and I Wish You All the Best.

Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small, insular town, making sure he was invisible has always been easier than being himself. Determined not to let anything ruin his senior year, Sky decides to make a splash at his high school’s annual beach bum party by asking his crush, Ali, to prom—and he has thirty days to do it.

What better way to start living loud and proud than by pulling off the gayest promposal Rock Ledge, Michigan, has ever seen?

Then, Sky’s plans are leaked by an anonymous hacker in a deeply homophobic e-blast that quickly goes viral. He’s fully prepared to drop out and skip town altogether—until his classmates give him a reason to fight back by turning his thirty-day promposal countdown into a school-wide hunt to expose the e-blast perpetrator.

But what happens at the end of the thirty days? Will Sky get to keep his hard-won visibility? Or will his small-town blues stop him from being his true self?

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State of the ARC [28]

 

State of the ARC is a monthly meme hosted by Avalinah at Avalinah's Books! It's an opportunity for readers to catch up on their long overdue ARCs, but right now I'm using it to keep up with my upcoming ARCs instead. It helps me stay organized! Edit: State of the ARC is currently being hosted by Sarah (All the Book Blog Names Are Taken) while Evelina is on hiatus.

Make Up Break Up by Lily Menon (2/2)

Much Ado About You by Samantha Young (2/2)

The Last Tiara by M.J. Rose (2/2)

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria (2/2)

The Project by Courtney Summers (2/2)

Meet You in the Middle by Devon Daniels (2/2) 

The Iron Raven (The Iron Fey: Evenfall, #1) by Julie Kagawa (2/9)

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher (2/16)

The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) by Mindy McGinnis (2/23) Review

Float Plan by Trish Doller (3/2)

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft (3/2)

Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering (3/2)

Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman (3/2)

The Baddest Girl on the Planet by Heather Frese (3/2)

Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert (3/9)

The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (3/9)

When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert (3/9)

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (3/9)

The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep (Jane Anonymous, #2) by Laurie Faria Stolarz (3/16)

Red Island House by Andrea Lee (3/23)

Red Widow by Alma Katsu (3/23)

The Accidental Apprentice (Wilderlore, #1) by Amanda Foody (3/30)

To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows, #2) by Martha Waters (4/6)

Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford (4/6)

What Beauty There Is (What Beauty There Is, #1) by Cory Anderson (4/6)

Pride and Premeditation (Jane Austen Murder Mystery, #1) by Tirzah Price (4/6)

Victories Greater Than Death (Universal Expansion, #1) by Charlie Jane Anders (4/13)

Malice by Heather Walter (4/13)

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain (4/13)

These Feathered Flames (These Feathered Flames, #1) by Alexandra Overy (4/20)

Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein (4/27)

Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield (5/4) 

It Had to Be You by (5/4)

Stowaway by John David Anderson (8/3)

Snakes in Space by Kathryn Dennis [Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway]

 

Halito! Welcome to the next stop on the Snakes in Space blog tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Thanks for stopping by today, and don't forget to check out the giveaway at the bottom! For the full tour schedule, please visit the Rockstar Book Tours website.

About The Book:
Title: SNAKES IN SPACE
Author: Kathryn Dennis
Pub. Date: January 5, 2021
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 32
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

From Kathryn Dennis, creator of Snakes on a Train and Snakes on the Job, here is Snakes in Space, a picture book about snakes exploring outer space!

Snakes blast into outer space.
they spin around planets
and give stars a chase.

Snakes in space? Yes, indeed. The colorful crew explores stars and planets on a fabuloussss adventure with accessible, fun, sibilant text.

Brimming with rocket ships and planets, this outer space adventure is also a fun read aloud. And at the end, there's a surprise sure to delight readers, as one of the snakes makes a new friend!

Grab the other books in the series!
Snakes on a Train
Snakes on the Job

I really enjoyed reading Snakes in Space with my kiddos! They like snakes AND space, so was interesting to see the two topics together. (Although, now I'm curious if they've ever actually sent a snake to space, and what happened if they did. Do you know?) The illustrations were very simple, yet wonderfully effective. They conveyed the story without overcrowding the pages, and I loved how vibrant the colors were! Instead of space simply being a black page with white stars, we get things like a turquoise background with yellow dots (and also a lot of purple).

My one complaint would be the way the story flowed from one page to the next. At times the wording felt choppy or nonsensical, and I wish the sentences had felt effortless and seamlessly transitioned from page to page. It seems like a small thing, but it's always jarring when my brain wants to make something rhyme (because it does once or twice), and then the actual words just sort of end elsewhere. It's like when a drummer and a guitarist are playing different tempos - everything feels off. You're unable to find a good rhythm, which is what happened to me with this book. (★★★⋆☆)

About Kathryn:

Website | Goodreads

Kathryn Dennis began her art career drawing on walls and sidewalks and painting anything that did not move. In fourth grade, she published her first project—a comic strip about a platypus, which she sold for a nickel. Snakes on a Train was her (official) picture book debut.

Giveaway Details: 

3 lucky winners will win a finished copy of SNAKES IN SPACE, US Only.

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