Waiting on Wednesday: My Unscripted Life

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which shines a light on eagerly anticipated upcoming releases.  This week, my pick is:

My Unscripted Life by Lauren Morrill
Publisher: Delacorte
Date: October 11, 2016

"Another sultry Georgia summer is about to get a lot hotter. Dee Wilkie is still licking her wounds after getting rejected by the precollege fine arts program of her dreams. But if she'd gone away, she wouldn't have been around to say yes to an unbelievable opportunity: working on the set of a movie filming in her small Southern town that just happens to be starring Milo Ritter, the famous pop star Dee (along with the rest of the world) has had a crush since eighth grade.

It's not like Dee will be sharing any screen time with Milo—she's just a lowly PA. And Milo is so disappointingly rude that Dee is eager to stay far away from him. Except after a few chance meetings, she begins to wonder if just maybe there's a reason for his offensive attitude, and if there's more to Milo than his good looks and above-it-all Hollywood pedigree. Can a relationship with a guy like Milo ever work out for a girl like Dee? Never say never. . ." -- From Goodreads

This book sounds like it's going to be cute and sweet.  It's going to be refreshing after all of the heavy fantasy that's going to grace my to-read shelf in September and October.

TTT: New Fall TV Shows On My Radar

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week's theme features the new fall TV shows that are on my radar.  Here we go!

Designated Survivor

Network: ABC

Premiere Date: September 21, 2016

A lower level United States Cabinet member is suddenly appointed president after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the line of succession.

Conviction

Network: ABC

Premiere Date: October 3, 2016

A woman heads an agency that attempts to reverse cases where innocent people were jailed for crimes.

Still Star-Crossed

Network: ABC

Premiere Date: Mid-season

A drama about the 16th-century intrigue, treachery and romances of the Montagues and Capulets following the tragic end of young lovers Romeo and Juliet.

This Is Us

Network: NBC

Premiere Date: September 20, 2016

Several people whose lives are mysteriously intertwined begin to notice peculiar coincidences about each other in this dramedy.

Time After Time

Network: ABC

Premiere Date: Mid-season

A brilliant and charismatic surgeon lives a double as the infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper.

Bull.

Network: CBS

Premiere Date: September 20, 2016

A renowned psychologist heads a prolific trial consulting service in this drama series based on the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw.

What new shows are you looking forward to?

Leave me a list or link in the comments!

One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison

One Less Problem Without You by Beth Harbison
Published by St. Martin's Press in July 2016

"Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll need nothing short of magic to forget about him.

Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her?

Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn’t faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif’s stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love.

In Beth Harbison's One Less Problem Without You, three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together." -- From Goodreads

Will you like it?
I really like Beth Harbison, but this book fell a little flat for me.  The ending of this book was what bothered me.  It tied up in a too neat and pretty package to be satisfying for me.  I wish Leif would have struggled a little more.  Otherwise, I liked the girls.  I liked the book.

Disclosure: I borrowed a copy of this book from my local library.

September TBR

From now until the end of 2016, I'm planning on doing a post at the start of each month detailing what books I'm planning on reading.  It's my hope that with a list, I can read the new releases and a few on my backlist each month.  Without further ado, here is September's TBR!

Audios: 

Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes by Rick Riordan

Published by Disney- Hyperion in August 2015

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Published by Riverhead Books in January 2015

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd by Alan Bradley

Published by Orion in September 2016

The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer

Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in July 2016

Print:

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Published by Orion Children's Books in September 2016

Royal Wedding Disaster by Meg Cabot

Published by Feiwel and Friends in May 2016

The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude

Published by HMH Books for Young Readers in May 2016

 

With Malice by Eileen Cook

Published by HMH Books for Young Readers in June 2016

Never Missing Never Found by Amanda Panitch

Published by Random House Books for Young Readers in June 2016

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens in September 2016

Last Chance Rebel by Maisey Yates

Published by HQN Books in August 2016

Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton

Published by Bantam Dell in August 2016

What are some of the books you're planning on reading in September?

Leave a list or link in the comments!

A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody

A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in August 2016

"Sixteen-year-old Ellison Sparks is having a serious case of the Mondays. She gets a ticket for running a red light, she manages to take the world’s worst school picture, she bombs softball try-outs and her class election speech (note to self: never trust a cheerleader when she swears there are no nuts in her bake-sale banana bread), and to top it all off, Tristan, her gorgeous rocker boyfriend suddenly dumps her. For no good reason!

As far as Mondays go, it doesn’t get much worse than this. And Ellie is positive that if she could just do it all over again, she would get it right. So when she wakes up the next morning to find she’s reliving the exact same day, she knows what she has to do: stop her boyfriend from breaking up with her. But it seems no matter how many do-overs she gets or how hard Ellie tries to repair her relationship, Tristan always seems bent set on ending it. Will Ellie ever figure out how to fix this broken day? Or will she be stuck in this nightmare of a Monday forever?" -- From Goodreads

Will you like it?
Oh this book.  I loved it.  I loved how Ellison grew as a character.  Ellison finally found herself, and didn't try to force her personality into some box because she was worried that she might offend her boyfriend.  This book was smart, and I hope teenagers take away the fact that they need to be their own person, especially with a significant other.

Disclosure: I borrowed this book from my local library.