Waiting On Wednesday #108: THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen (A)

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by  Breaking the Spine. 

This is were we get to 'spotlight' books that we are anxiously waiting to be released! The ones that we are dying to get our hands on and read into the wee hours of the night and, quite possibly, to make our shelves look all pretty too :)

What I'm waiting for...

THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY

by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Translated by Lola M. Rogers

Expected release date: January 20th, 2015

Published by: Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin's Press) 

Genre: Adult Literature

Format: Hardcover, eBook

SUMMARY

Only nine people have ever been chosen by renowned children’s author Laura White to join the Rabbit Back Literature Society, an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: a young literature teacher named Ella.

Soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual known as "The Game"? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura White’s winter party? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves? Was there once another tenth member, before her? Slowly, as Ella explores the Society and its history, disturbing secrets that had been buried for years start to come to light. . . .

In Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen’s chilling, darkly funny novel, The Rabbit Back Literature Society, praised as "Twin Peaks meets the Brothers Grimm" (The Telegraph), the uncanny brushes up against the everyday in the most beguiling and unexpected of ways. 

Why I'm waiting for THE RABBIT BACK LITERATURE SOCIETY...

This has me at "Twin Peaks meets the Brothers Grimm"!!!

This is said to be a dark, but humorous book. A book that you cannot rush through.

It is a book that demands your attention and time in order to experience and thoroughly understand its content, riddles and secrets. 

I'm sold!

Plus! Look at that bookcover!!!

To learn more about the book and its author, visit its website:

http://rabbitbackliterature.com/

(*FYI - I am not most definitely NOT being paid, reimbursed, etc. for my excitement for this book!)

And, what are you anxiously waiting for???

Waiting On Wednesday #86: ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen (A)

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by  Breaking the Spine. 

This is were we get to 'spotlight' books that we are anxiously waiting to be released! The ones that we are dying to get our hands on and read into the wee hours of the night and, quite possibly, to make our shelves look all pretty too :)

What I'm waiting on...

ALIAS HOOK

by Lisa Jensen

Expected release date: July 8th, 2014

Published by: Thomas Dunne Books (Macmillan)

Genre: Adult - Fairytale

Format: Hardcover, eBook

SUMMARY

"Every child knows how the story ends. The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It's my fate to be trapped here forever, in a nightmare of childhood fancy, with that infernal, eternal boy."
Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan’s rules. From the glamour of the Fairy Revels, to the secret ceremonies of the First Tribes, to the mysterious underwater temple beneath the Mermaid Lagoon, the magical forces of the Neverland open up for Stella as they never have for Hook. And in the pirate captain himself, she begins to see someone far more complex than the storybook villain. 

With Stella’s knowledge of folk and fairy tales, she might be Hook’s last chance for redemption and release if they can break his curse before Pan and his warrior boys hunt her down and drag Hook back to their neverending game. 

Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen is a beautifully and romantically written adult fairy tale.

Why I'm waiting on ALIAS HOOK...

It's HOOK!!! PETER PAN!!!

It's an ADULT fairytale!!!

I've never read an adult fairytale before... definitely nothing like this!!!

A huge thank you to Kristen of My Friend's Are Fiction for tweeting about this a few days ago!

What are you waiting for this week???