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Can't Wait Wednesday Alice By Heart

Hi! Welcome back to Can't-Wait Wednesday. This weekly meme is hosted by  Tressa @wishfulendings.  The purpose of the meme is to feature books, usually those that haven't been published yet, that we can't wait for. This week, I'm featuring the upcoming Historical Fiction Novel Alice By Heart. Information comes from Goodreads. Add Alice By Heart to your TBR . Title- Alice By Heart Author- Steven Sater Expected Publication- February 4th, 2020 by Razorbill Goodreads Summary "    A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater. London, 1940. Amidst the rubble of the Blitz of World War II, fifteen -year-old Alice Spencer and her best friend, Alfred, are forced to take shelter in an underground tube station. Sick with tuberculosis, Alfred is quarantined , with docto...

A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs (Review)

Hello everyone! I read this book back in January and I still think about to it to this day. I want to get all my thoughts into a formal review so I can at least say I put them out there into the universe. The novel in question is A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children # 4)  by Ransom Riggs. Info Genre: Young Adult Read from: January 1,2019-January 31, 2019 Publication- October 2, 2018 by Dutton Books for Young Readers Edition I read-  US Hardback Rating- 4.5 stars In the fourth book in the series Jacob and the gang are in America mostly, while scenes are in the place where they spent time in the previous books, I assume this is England somewhere, but I’m not sure it  was  ever established . As the book progresses, we learn more and more about Abe and who he was as a person. The book ran in two timelines, but I will get more into this later on in the review. Image from Goodreads Okay, so in the general thoughts ...