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.

I am combining CWW with Books From the Backlog hosted by Carole at Carole's Random Life in Books. This will allow me to feature some newly "rediscovered" books, which I plan on reading, alongside a new release.

This week I can't wait for:

Kind of Sort of Fine
Spencer Hall
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 22, 2021
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Senior year changes everything for two teens in this poignant, funny coming-of-age story that looks at what happens when the image everyone has of us no longer matches who we really are.

Senior year of high school is full of changes.

For Hayley Mills, these changes aren’t exactly welcome. All she wants is for everyone to forget about her very public breakdown and remember her as the overachiever she once was—and who she’s determined to be again. But it’s difficult to be seen as a go-getter when she’s forced into TV Production class with all the slackers like Lewis Holbrook.

For Lewis, though, this is going to be his year. After a summer spent binging 80s movies, he’s ready to upgrade from the role of self-described fat, funny sidekick to leading man of his own life—including getting the girl. The only thing standing in his way is, well, himself.

When the two are partnered up in class, neither is particularly thrilled. But then they start making mini documentaries about their classmates’ hidden talents, and suddenly Hayley is getting attention for something other than her breakdown, and Lewis isn’t just a background character anymore. It seems like they’re both finally getting what they want—except what happens when who you’ve become isn’t who you really are?

Why I want to read this book

I found myself really relating to the title of this book. I feel like I have been sort-of-kind-of-fine for most of my life, and therefore was delighted when I stumbled upon this book. But there's more than that spurring my desire to read this book. The idea of the fate bringing these two people together, as they are seeking change, excites me. I feel like I will want to cheer for them as they navigate their final year of high school, and I love the idea of the mini documentaries too. 

The Rules for Disappearing
Ashley Elston
Series: The Rules for Disappearing, #1
Age/Genre: Young Adult, Mystery
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Goodreads

She’s been six different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her last.

Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her. But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time she got some answers for herself.

But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really matters — survival.

Why I want to read this book

I am now a hard-core Elston fan, and I have made it my mission to read her entire backlist. That's it. It was one of her fluffy contemporaries that won my heart, but her mysteries have also been hits with me. I am nearing the end of her backlist with this book, but I am excited to dive in. 

What are you waiting on?
Any backlog books you want to read soon? 
Let us know in the comments!