Thursday, June 10, 2021

June Book Of The Month

 


These are the books that I chose for the month of June from Book Of The Month. Here is my link if you want to give them a try. https://www.mybotm.com/0cxpwrpoiqlivn29?show_box=true

Here are the books and what the synopsis has to say about the story within.

Project Hail Mary By: Andy Weir. 
A Lone Astronaut. An Impossible Mission. An Ally He Never Imagined.
Byland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of hs assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. 
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone.
Or does he?
I have already read this book and really enjoyed it. I received the e-arc from NetGalley. I will have  my review linked here. https://debbiesreadingcorner.blogspot.com/2021/05/project-hail-mary-book-review.html
Instructions For Dancing By: Nicola Yoon
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began...and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.
As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is all that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything-including entering a ball-room dance competition with a girl he's only just met.
Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it's that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love, In the end, is love worth the risk?

Malibu Rising By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Malibu: August 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over-especially as the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva.

The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud-because it is long past time for him to confess something to the brother from whom he's been inseparable since birth.

Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can't stop thinking about promised she'll be there.

And Kit has a couple secrets of her own-including a guest she invited without consulting anyone.

By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family's generations will all come rising to the surface.

Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them...and what they will leave behind.

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