Can't Wait Wednesday!

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Here at WLABB, I put a little twist on CWW by featuring an upcoming release along side a backlist book or a "newly discovered" book I am looking forward to reading.

This week I can't wait for: 

My Box-Shaped Heart
Rachael Lucas
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Goodreads

A powerful YA novel about an unlikely friendship between two struggling teens—and how they come together to help one another.

Holly's mom is a hoarder, and Holly is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird . . . and having the wrong clothes . . . and sticking out. All she wants is to fit in. She loves swimming, because in the water everyone is the same.

Ed goes to the swimming pool because everything else in his life has changed. In his old life, he had money, was on the swim team, knew who he was and what he wanted. In his old life, his dad hit his mom.

Holly is swimming in one direction and Ed's swimming in the other. As their worlds collide they find a window into each other's lives—and learn how to meet in the middle.

Why I want to read this book

Lucas won my heart with The State of Grace, and I am hoping she will do it once again with this book. Swimming and an unlikely friendship sound like a winning combination for me, and I can only assume there will be many feels, as both Holly and Ed work through their home-life issues. I love the idea that the pool is their safe space, their escape, too, and am really looking forward to learning more about both of them.

The Comeback Season
Jennifer E. Smith
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: B
Release Date:
Source: Shelf
Goodreads

Baseball brings them together—but will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight.

The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn’t thinking about what she should be doing. She’s not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it’s been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she’s finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this—the fifth anniversary of his death—it feels like there’s nowhere else in the world she should be.

Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it’s on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: “Wait till next year.” Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?

Why I want to read this book

I am a solid JES fangirl. I bought this book in an attempt to read her entire backlist, and it is the ONLY unread YA from her catalog. I am motivated by that, as well as being on a sort of baseball kick. My last three baseball books have all been hits, and I am hoping this will be one too. JES + grief + a secret past + baseball should add up to a great read for me.

What are you waiting on?

Let us know in the comments!