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
How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
Published by Pamela Dorman Books on May 9, 2024
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
Goodreads
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.
The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.
Aside from the snappy title, I was drawn to this book simply because Clare Pooley wrote it. Pooley does a wonderful job writing stories filled with quirky characters who never fail to capture my heart that focuses on human connection. I never tire of stories like that, and I expect to find some of that here. I also enjoy reading books featuring older characters. Society is too quick to write people off as past their prime, so it is a treat to see them get a starring role in a book. Regardless, it sounds like it will be a rollicking good time.
Whisky Business by Elliot Fletcher
Published by Avon on December 19, 2023
Age/Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Goodreads
Opposites attract when a fish-out-of-water actress and a grumpy Scottish whisky distiller are forced to work together to save the business they both love.
As a child, April Sinclair dreamt of escaping her quiet island life to become a world-famous actress. Now fully grown and with her once-flourishing career at an all-time low, what better way to figure out where it all went wrong than to go back to the beginning? April has her sights set on a new challenge, and that is saving her family’s distillery on the idyllic Scottish Isle of Skye.
What she doesn’t expect to find is Malcolm Macabe, short-tempered and exceedingly attractive, living in the home she has just inherited. He may be a million miles away from the shy teenager she knew growing up, but one thing is for certain: he doesn’t want her around anymore.
Master distiller Mal has three loves in his life: Whisky, his dog and silence. He has no time for the pampered princess poking her nose around his distillery, even if said princess is the one who got away. More comfortable in the shadows than the spotlight, Mal is content to wait her out. She’ll grow bored and run back to her glamorous world of nail salons and take-away coffee eventually. When sparks begin to fly, he tells himself it doesn’t matter…because April Sinclair could never want a man like him, right?
This is another book that was added to my TBR based on the title. It's so fun and made me think of the movie, Risky Business. Fact, I was way too young when I saw that film at the $2 movie house, but I saw a lot of age inappropriate films in my youth. Anyhow, there are so many things that captured my attention in the summary - Scotland, fish-out-of-water, save the business. This seems like a tale that will delight me.
Let us know in the comments!
Whisky Business definitely sounds like a fun one!
ReplyDeleteIt was fun. I really liked the parts where they worked in the distillery. It was interesting.
DeleteI am sold on How to Age Discgracefully just for the title!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great title!
DeleteBoth of these sound very promising!
ReplyDeleteWhisky Business was good. It was sweet and fun. Exactly what I was looking for
DeleteYou're right, both titles are catchy! I look forward to your thoughts, Sam!
ReplyDeleteWhisky Business was fun. I liked it, and all the whisky stuff was interesting
DeleteI loved The Authenticity Project, so now I'm looking forward to her upcoming release too.
ReplyDeleteThat book surprised me in the best way, and Pooley's follow up was great, too.
DeleteBoth of these sound like good ones. I am pending for the Clare Pooley book, but will read it from the library if I don't get approved. Now to see if my library has Whiskey Business, lots to like about that description, Sam.
ReplyDeleteI already got rejected for the Pooley, but my library tends to get her books. Whiskey Business was fun. I am looking forward to reading the other brothers' stories.
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