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Review: Nantucket Blue By Leila Howland

Title: Nantucket Blue

Author: Leila Howland

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

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Blog Tour + Giveaway: Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:35:04 -0400

michelleshoutsrandom:

Hey guys! Are you ready for summer? For others like me, who’s having too much summer heat, how’s is it going? Needed more book recommendation? Well, you’re on the right page! Check out this hot-looking novel and US residents can enter to win a copy!

Nantucket Blue
by Leila Howland

Published May 7th 2013 by Disney Hyperion

Blurb (Goodreads):

For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams.

Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn’t.

When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer.

But it’s the things Cricket hadn’t counted on—most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits—that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality.

A beautiful future is within her grasp, and Cricket must find the grace to embrace it. If she does, her life could be the perfect shade of Nantucket blue.

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ENTER THE GIVEAWAY HERE!

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oldloves: Bill Murray on Gilda Radner: “Gilda got married and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:50:02 -0400

oldloves:

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner:

“Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.

So we started carrying her around, in a way that we could only do with her. We carried her up and down the stairs, around the house, repeatedly, for a long time, until I was exhausted. Then Danny did it for a while. Then I did it again. We just kept carrying her; we did it in teams. We kept carrying her around, but like upside down, every which way—over your shoulder and under your arm, carrying her like luggage. And that went on for more than an hour—maybe an hour and a half—just carrying her around and saying, “She’s leaving! This could be it! Now come on, this could be the last time we see her. Gilda’s leaving, and remember that she was very sick—hello?”

We worked all aspects of it, but it started with just, “She’s leaving, I don’t know if you’ve said good-bye to her.” And we said good-bye to the same people ten, twenty times, you know.

And because these people were really funny, every person we’d drag her up to would just do like five minutes on her, with Gilda upside down in this sort of tortured position, which she absolutely loved. She was laughing so hard we could have lost her right then and there.

It was just one of the best parties I’ve ever been to in my life. I’ll always remember it. It was the last time I saw her.”

- from Live from New York: an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

flavorpill: Attention: the song titles.

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:08:02 -0400

flavorpill:

Attention: the song titles.

"he erupted vesuviusly"

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:07:06 -0400

“he erupted vesuviusly”

- listening to old moth podcasts, dr. george lombardi used this phrase to describe the pope’s cardiologist and i’m totally in love with it. (via whisker-biscuits)

We are too!

(via moth-stories)

myheartheartsbooks: New buys for the week, I’m so excited!...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:21:15 -0400

myheartheartsbooks:

New buys for the week, I’m so excited! Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, and Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland

jzebgray: #ack #nantucket #brantpoint

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:46:29 -0400

jzebgray:

#ack #nantucket #brantpoint

jzebgray: #ack #nantucket #alterrock

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:46:12 -0400

jzebgray:

#ack #nantucket #alterrock

netgalley: Recipes for Success: NetGalley Requests - the Publisher’s Perspective Guest Post: Dina...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:07:01 -0400

netgalley:

Recipes for Success: NetGalley Requests - the Publisher’s Perspective
Guest Post: Dina Sherman, Director of School & Library Marketing: Disney Book Group

I am excited to welcome Dina Sherman, Director of School & Library Marketing, from Disney Book Group as our guest blogger today. Now that we’ve heard about what publishers are looking for in your NetGalley profile, Dina is here to talk a bit more about the process of approving requests. I know that after requesting titles from the NetGalley catalog it’s exciting to get those “you’ve been approved” messages from the publishers. Dina is here to explain why you may sometimes have to wait longer than usual to receive that message, or why, in some cases, you may be declined.

Read more for Dina’s insight about marketing strategies and NetGalley requests, in addition to a book recommendation from Disney Book Group!

Recipes for Success aims to give new bloggers and reviewers helpful information, tools, and best practices to help facilitate your growth and effectiveness as reviewers. Check back often for tips and tricks from the insiders.

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