Waiting on Wednesday #66

Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog! I'm Genni, and today I'll be participating in Waiting on Wednesday, and meme originally created by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. Jill hasn't been active for a while, so Tressa @ Wishful Endings has adopted it! If you see posts by the name of "Can't Wait Wednesday," it's the same thing!

The book I'm looking forward to this week is Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi!

For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.

Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.

When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to see each other.

Goodreads

Here are some stats about the book:

Genre - YA Contemporary Romance

Release Date - March 27, 2018

Publisher - Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pages -400

Why I'm Waiting

I first saw this on Netgalley when I was perusing Simon and Schuster's selection. I didn't request it, but after seeing the glowing reviews from others who got the ARC, I'm very excited for it now! I just have to read two other ARCs before I get this one, and I have to hold myself back from speed-reading. I love that the idea that Penny and Sam are each other's support, and that it *seems* that this is own-voices. I've been loving reading YA set in college, as I relate to it a lot more than most New Adult books in college. Plus..the cover is so adorable!

Are you looking forward to Emergency Contact?

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you soon with another post!

Happy Reading!

Genni @ Ready, Set, Read!