Books I’d Gladly Throw Into the Ocean | Top Ten Tuesday
Books I’d Gladly Throw Into the Ocean | Top Ten Tuesday
The topic this week is Books I’d Gladly Throw Into the Ocean!
I read a lot of books, tons of them in fact…the downside to this is that I do end up finding books I loathe amongst the ones I love. I don’t like to define a book as “bad” because all books are great to the right reader, but there are some books I definitely think I, at least, would love to chuck into the ocean and be rid of forever…
WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme Sam hosts at Taking on a World of Words.
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Here is what I am currently reading, recently finished, and plan to read from Thursday to Wednesday.
Let me know if you have read or are planning on reading any of these books!!
Happy…
Goodreads Monday: Stupid Fast (Stupid Fast: Book 1) by Geoff Herbach
This is a weekly meme where anyone can choose and highlight a random book from their Goodreads TBR. This meme was formerly featured on LaurensPageTurners and was taken over by Budget Tales Book Blog.
I AM NOT STUPID FUNNY. I AM STUPID FAST. My name is Felton Reinstein, which is not a fast name. But last November, my voice finally dropped and I grew all this hair and then I got stupid fast. Fast…
Isaiah loves football. In fact, football saved Isaiah’s life, giving him structure and discipline after his sister’s death tore his family apart. Now, nothing makes Isaiah happier than setting up the perfect defense and delivering a big hit. But when Isaiah gets knocked out cold on the field, he learns there’s a lot more to lose than football.
While recovering from another concussion, Isaiah wonders what his life would look without football. All his friends are on the team, and Isaiah knows they can’t win without him. There’s also the scholarship offer from Cornell, which is only on the table if he keeps playing. And without football, what would keep his family together? What would prevent him from sliding back into the habits that nearly destroyed him?
As Isaiah begins to piece his life together with help from unexpected places, he must decide how much he’s willing to sacrifice for the sport that gave him everything, even if playing football threatens to take away his future.
Isaiah loves football. In fact, football saved Isaiah’s life, giving him structure and discipline after his sister’s death tore his family apart. Now, nothing makes Isaiah happier than setting up the perfect defense and delivering a big hit. But when Isaiah gets knocked out cold on the field, he learns there’s a lot more to lose than football.
While recovering from another concussion, Isaiah wonders what his life would look without football. All his friends are on the team, and Isaiah knows they can’t win without him. There’s also the scholarship offer from Cornell, which is only on the table if he keeps playing. And without football, what would keep his family together? What would prevent him from sliding back into the habits that nearly destroyed him?
As Isaiah begins to piece his life together with help from unexpected places, he must decide how much he’s willing to sacrifice for the sport that gave him everything, even if playing football threatens to take away his future.
[Free eBook] Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach [Award-Winning YA Coming-of-Age Novel]
Stupid Fast by Geoff Herbach is the 1st novel in the Felton Reinstein trilogy of young adult coming-of-age contemporary fiction with f/m romantic elements, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Sourcebooks' Fire imprint.
This won the 2011 Cybils Award in the Young Adult Fiction category, and was an ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults and Junior Library Guild selection among other honours, and the sequel later won the 2013 Minnesota Book Award.
The trilogy is a coming of age domestic issues drama starring a student from his junior high school to college years, as he finds purpose and refuge from his chaotic home life in sports and a budding relationship with the girl he falls for. This installment sees him recruited to the football team after a growth spurt, and beginning to push the boundaries of his environment.
Offered in Canada & US only, available at multiple retailers.
Free for a limited time @ Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, Google Play (looks like the freebie was available in Canada & US only when I spot-checked assorted regional stores, YMMV, and some retailers may only provide the freebie in certain countries)
Description
I AM NOT STUPID FUNNY. I AM STUPID FAST.
My name is Felton Reinstein, which is not a fast name. But last November, my voice finally dropped and I grew all this hair and then I got stupid fast. Fast like a donkey. Zing!
Now they want me, the guy they used to call Squirrel Nut, to try out for the football team. With the jocks. But will that fix my mom? Make my brother stop dressing like a pirate? Most important, will it get me girls-especially Aleah?
So I train. And I run. And I sneak off to Aleah's house in the night. But deep down I know I can't run forever. And I wonder what will happen when I finally have to stop.
For Adam Reed, basketball is a passport. Adam’s basketball skills have taken him from an orphanage in Poland to a loving adoptive mother in Minnesota. When he’s tapped to play on a select AAU team along with some of the best players in the state, it just confirms that basketball is his ticket to the good life: to new friendships, to the girl of his dreams, to a better future.
But life is more complicated off the court. When an incident with the police threatens to break apart the bonds Adam’s finally formed after a lifetime of struggle, he must make an impossible choice between his new family and the sport that’s given him everything.
