Time for another WWW Wednesday (a theme hosted by Should Be Reading)
WWW Wednesday requires you to answer three questions:
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
WHAT ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING?
Winger
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Humour, Coming of Age
Release Date: May 14th 2013
Page Count: 439
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781442444928
Goodreads synopsis: Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids in the Pacific Northwest. He’s living in Opportunity Hall, the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the rugby team. And he’s madly in love with his best friend Annie, who thinks of him as a little boy. With the help of his sense of humor, rugby buddies, and his penchant for doodling comics, Ryan Dean manages to survive life’s complications and even find some happiness along the way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold on to what’s important, even when it feels like everything has fallen apart. Filled with hand-drawn info-graphics and illustrations and told in a pitch-perfect voice, this realistic depiction of a teen’s experience strikes an exceptional balance of hilarious and heartbreaking.
What did you recently finish reading?
Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Author: Becky Albertalli
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ
Release Date: April 7th 2015
Page Count: 303
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062348678
Goodreads synopsis: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.
(Stay tuned for a review!)
What do you think you’ll read next?
Deadly Class, Vol.1: Reagan Youth
Author: Rick Remender
Illustrator: Wesley Craig & Lee Loughridge
Publisher: Image Comics
Genre: Graphic Novel, Thriller, Mystery & Crime
Release Date: July 16th 2014 (first published January 1st 2014)
Page Count: 160
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781632150035
Goodreads synopsis: It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical. Collecting the first arc of the most critically acclaimed new series of 2014, by writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Fear Agent) and rising star artist WESLEY CRAIG (Batman). Experience the 1980s underground through the eyes of the world’s most damaged and dangerous teenagers. Collects DEADLY CLASS #1-6.