Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Blog Tour: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND PITTSBURGH exercpt

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the PRIDE & PREJUDICE & PITTSBURGH by Rachael Lippincott Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: PRIDE & PREJUDICE & PITTSBURGH

Authors: Rachael Lippincott

Pub. Date: August 29, 2023

Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 336

Find it: Goodreadshttps://books2read.com/PRIDE-PREJUDICE-PITTSBURGH

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s What If It’s Us meets Bridgerton.

What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?

Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family’s Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn’t know what she’s expecting…but it’s definitely not that she’ll be transported back to 1812 to become a Regency romance heroine.

Lucy Sinclair isn’t expecting to find an oddly dressed girl claiming to be from two hundred years in the future on her family’s estate. But she has to admit it’s a welcome distraction from being courted by a man her father expects her to marry—who offers a future she couldn’t be less interested in. Not that anyone has cared about what or who she’s interested in since her mother died, taking Lucy’s spark with her.

While the two girls try to understand what’s happening and how to send Audrey home, their sparks make a comeback in a most unexpected way. Because as they both try over and over to fall for their suitors and the happily-ever-afters everyone expects of them, they find instead they don’t have to try at all to fall for each other.

But can a most unexpected love story survive even more impossible circumstances?

 

Excerpt:
I watch as she searches in the grass around where she was lying, looking for something. “Where am I?” she asks again.

“On my family’s estate. Radcliffe.”

An amused smile grows on her face, like I’ve just said something funny. “And what year is it on this ‘estate’?”

“It’s 1812.”

She barks out a laugh, shaking her head as she finds what she’s looking for, a rectangular box that’s now clutched in her hand. “It’s 1812 . . . ,” she mutters to herself. “You’re good. Really committed to this whole acting thing.”

“What do you mean ‘acting thing’?” I ask as I stand and we face each other for the first time. She is a head taller than me, and I crane my neck to meet her gaze, crossing my arms over my chest as I start to get annoyed. She’s trespassing on my land, in this scandalous outfit, interrupting my first moments of sweet freedom, and she’s making every indication that I’m the one who’s strange?

She raises an eyebrow as she motions at me. “The costume, the accent, the ‘Radcliffe, my family’s estate’ bit,” she says, mimicking my voice.

“I don’t understand your meaning. Nor do I appreciate you using that tone with—”

“Mm-hmm,” she says, cutting me off as she lifts the rectangular box toward the sky and begins wandering around in circles.

Maybe she’s . . . unwell? I mean, she’s wearing trousers and a chemise in public.

I inspect her face as she paces around and around, muttering to herself. Then I see the box she’s holding is almost . . . glowing. There’s a painted picture on the front of a dog that looks remarkably realistic.

“No service,” she mutters to herself, coming to a stop in front of me. “Do you have a phone at your house?”

I frown. “A phone?”

“You know”—she holds up the rectangular box, and the glow is bright enough to make me squint—“a phone?”

When I don’t show any sign of recognition, she narrows her eyes at me. “Are you Amish?”

“Am I what?”

“I don’t know! You don’t know what a phone is, you swallowed my gum, you’re dressed like this, and you think it’s 1812.”

“It is 1812,” I say firmly, and she laughs again, but this time it doesn’t quite meet her eyes. “Why is that so amusing to you?”

“Because it’s not possible.”

 

About Rachael Lippincott:

Rachael Lippincott is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart. She holds a BA in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Pittsburgh with her wife and their dog, Hank.

 

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Giveaway Details:

1 lucky winner will win a finished copy of PRIDE & PREJUDICE & PITTSBURGH, US Only.

Ends September 12th, midnight EST.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

8/28/2023

YA Boks Central

Excerpt/IG Post

8/28/2023

Lisa Loves Literature

Review/IG Post

8/29/2023

Book-Keeping

Excerpt/IG Post

8/29/2023

Nonbinary Knight Reads

Review/IG Post

8/30/2023

Country Mamas With Kids

Review/IG Post

8/30/2023

gsreadingspree

IG Review

8/31/2023

travelersguidetobooks

IG Review

8/31/2023

Confessions of the Perfect Mom

Review/IG Post

9/1/2023

www.instagram.com/enjoyingbooksagain

IG Review

9/1/2023

popthebutterfly

Review/IG Post

Week Two:

9/4/2023

Books and Ladders

Review/IG Post

9/4/2023

jlreadstoperpetuity

IG Review/TikTok Post

9/5/2023

@froggyreadteach

IG Review

9/5/2023

A Blue Box Full of Books

IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

9/6/2023

A Bookish Dream

Review/IG Post

9/6/2023

Paws.Read.Repeat

Review/IG Post

9/7/2023

@parkhopandpages

IG Review

9/7/2023

@My.Bookish.Mind

IG Review/TikTok Post

9/8/2023

@thebookishfoxwitch

Review/IG Post

9/8/2023

@stargirls.magical.tale

IG Review


Thursday, August 10, 2023

Book Review: UNTIL I LOVE MYSELF, VOL. 1 by Poppy Pesuyama

 


Book Details

Title: Until I Love Myself, Vol. 1
Author: Poppy Pesuyama
Publisher: VIZ Media
Publication Date: June 20, 2023
Genre(s): Nonfiction, Manga, LGBT, Memoir
Pages: 192
Bookshop Purchase Link: https://bookshop.org/a/67041/9781974738847