Hi Fellow Readers!
If you’ve ever found yourself on a bad date, wondering, “How did I get here?” we can relate. And so can author Lisa Becker who turned her—often hilarious—adventures in online dating into a delightful book series. This week, Lisa stops by Shelf Pleasure to talk about her latest book and explains the many advantages to online dating (she even met her husband of 10 years through an online dating site!).
We’ve also got tons of new recommendations for you this week. Author Julie Shackman shares her current reads, including playful, light romances and one dark thriller that will change the way you view social media. And our picks for the best new books of the week are page-turning tales of suspense that you won’t be able to put down.
Here are the must-reads on Shelf Pleasure this week:
Online Dating Inspired ‘Click: An Online Love Story’ and ‘Double Click’
How one reader’s online dating adventures led to a husband…and a new novel!
Julie Shackman’s Nightstand
The author of the new contemporary romance, Rock My World, shares her current reads.
Jackie Kimmel on Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run
One reader on the book that made her “want to strip naked and run barefoot through the mountains, intentionally.” We love when a book is so powerful it moves you to do something inspiring!
New Releases
There are so many great new books out in the world this week! Here are our picks for the best of the bunch.
Trailer: The Maze Runner
If you haven’t read James Dashner’s The Maze Runner yet, this trailer proves you need to before it hits theaters.
And we still have a couple of very big things happening you shouldn’t miss:
Shelf Pleasure Radio
Shelf Pleasure has hit the air waves! Join us every Wednesday as we chat with authors and other book friends about all kinds of reading fun.
Read Along With Us
In case you missed it, here are all the details for our latest The Daily Basics & Shelf Pleasure book club discussion of Melissa Foster’s Have No Shame.
For our personal reading this week:
Kristen is reading Allison Parr’s New Adult title, Imaginary Lines. The only things she knows about football she learned from Friday Night Lights, but she still loves this series of romances centering on the love lives of different players on an imaginary NY football team.
After weeks of raving nonstop about the wonderful book The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt to anyone who would listen, Stacy is now reading Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History about a group of misfits at a New England college who are mesmerized by their classics professor—a man whose moral ambiguity leads them down a dark path that will change their lives forever.
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Happy reading!
