Waiting on Wednesday – 11

Posted by on July 24, 2012 9:41 pm in Book talk | 15 comments

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

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I haven’t done a WoW post in a couple weeks but that doesn’t mean I don’t still have an infinitely long wishlist!

This week, two titles that are coming really soon : Cascade has not only one of the most gorgeous covers ever, it also has an interesting premise, in an interesting setting, with possibly interesting characters.

The second title, Love Anthony, is Lisa Genova’s third novel. I loved her first and haven’t read her second even though it’s on my TBR pile, and I know this one will join it soon, too!

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Cascade by Maryanne O’Hara

 

(August 16th, 2012)

 

An artist in the 1930s finds herself caught between duty and her unorthodox desires.

Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935. Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a talented young artist who studied in Paris, has sacrificed her dreams of working in New York City to put a roof over her newly bankrupt and ailing father’s head. Two months later he has died and Dez is bound by the promises she has made to her father, her husband, and her town. Stifled by her marriage to kind but conservative Asa, who is impatient to start a family, her ambitions are fading. Dez also stands to lose her father’s legacy, the Cascade Shakespeare Theatre, as Massachusetts decides whether to flood Cascade to create a new reservoir for Boston.

Amid this turmoil arrives Jacob Solomon, a fellow artist and kindred spirit for whom Dez feels an immediate and strong attraction. As their relationship reaches a pivotal moment, a man is found dead and the town points its collective finger at Jacob, a Jewish outsider. When unexpected acclaim and a chance to recapture her lost dreams of life in New York City arise, Dez must make an impossible choice.

CASCADE interweaves a town’s impending destruction and America’s struggles during the Depression with small-town anti-Semitism and the bohemian art world of Greenwich Village.


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Love Anthony  
by Lisa Genova

 

(September 25th, 2012)

 

From the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Still Aliceand Left Neglected, comes a heartfelt novel about an accidental friendship that gives a grieving mother a priceless gift: the ability to understand the thoughts of her eight-year-old autistic son and make sense of his brief life.

Two women, each cast adrift by unforseen events in their lives, meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship.
Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. Her marriage badly frayed by years of stress, she comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony’s short life.
Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband’s long-term infidelity. In an attempt to recapture a sense of her pre-married life, she rekindles her passion for writing, determined to find her own voice again. But surprisingly, as she does so, Beth also find herself channeling the voice of an unknown boy, exuberant in his perceptions of the world around him if autistic in his expression—a voice she can share with Olivia—(is it Anthony?)—that brings comfort and meaning to them both.

 

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What are you waiting on this week?

15 Comments

  1. I can’t take my eyes off the Cascade cover.

  2. I recently read another post about ‘Cascade’ and it sounds absolutely amazing. And that is one stunning cover. And ‘Love Anthony’ sounds like it would make me cry, in a good way! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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    Juli @ Universe in Words

  3. Wow, the cover for Cascade is beautiful! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  4. Those both look excellent. I heard about Love Anthony when I was at BEA and I’m very excited about it.

  5. The cover for Cascade is gorgeous!! Awesome picks & thanks for stopping by my WoW!

  6. Both of these are on my reading list. I had hoped to snag a copy of Love Anthony from the Goodreads giveaway that ended last night, but no such luck. They both look like great reads. Excellent choice!

    My WoW

  7. I have never heard of either of those. The cover for Cascade is absolutely gorgeous though!!

  8. Cascade sounds really interesting. The cover for it is absolutely stunning!

    Thanks for stopping by!

  9. I think Cascade sounds awesome, and I agree with you about the cover! It’s just so… interesting! It’s one of those covers I can just sit and stare at until I absorb every detail.

    Great choices this week! Thanks so much for stopping by booknook. 🙂

  10. These books both look good.

    Thanks for stopping by my WOW!

  11. Wow, that cover for “Cascade” is fabulous! I read “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova and “Love Anthony” sound somewhat similar in that it takes on a tough-to-relate-to mental illness/disease. I’m sure it’ll be good.

  12. It sounds like I’d need to stock up on tissues before I’d start Love Anthony – I haven’t read Lisa Genova before, I’ll have to try her first one. The cover for Cascade is stunning. It took me a minute to realize that was water in her hair. 🙂 I had Saran Wrap on the brain.

  13. I am so excited for Cascade. That cover is just gorgeous, and the story line sounds promising! Great picks this week 🙂 Thanks for stopping by 🙂

    MaryAnn
    Chapter by Chapter

  14. Both are fantastic picks! I’ve had my eye on Cascade for a while too.

  15. I really love the cover of Cascade and it definitely sounds like a great read too! I really hope they’re worth the wait for you. 😀

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