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Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice: Read an Excerpt

Gilmore Girls fans! Pour yourselves a hot cup of tea and get ready to fall in love with this cozy YA romance that will have you dreaming of autumn all year long.

Fall is a big deal in Briar Glen, a quaint and charming village in New England. That's when tourists from all over the country descend upon this picturesque town to see the babbling brooks and colorful leaves while sipping hot chocolate or pumpkin spice lattes.

But sixteen-year-old Lucy Kane hates the uber-popular PSL. She finds it overrated -- especially when you consider the fact that there isn't even pumpkin in it! -- which is bad because she works at Cup o' Jo, the local coffee shop her mom owns. Business at Cup o' Jo hasn't been great in the off-season, but that's okay because it always picks up during the fall ...

Until Java Junction, a multinational coffee chain, opens across the street and makes things harder for the small shop. And to make matters worse, it turns out Jack Harper, the new kid in school and Lucy's secret crush, is the son of the owner. Suddenly, fall doesn't seem like it'll be all it's cracked up to be. Will Lucy find a way to save her mom's coffee shop?

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I've always wanted to write...never get around to it tho sometimes I think why does it really matter if you write or not? Then it gets me thinking to the books I read. People thought to write those and that went well but then I get to thinking would I ever be as good as them? Would I ever write something that someone would want to read? Well in class for this paper I wrote we had to let others read what your wrote...and this girl I don't know her name but she has the prettiest blond hair and the most beautiful blue eyes. She read my paper and really liked it. She said I have a way with words and emotions...that got me thinking should I start writing? So I guess I'm a bit inspired by her and this book I'm reading called "Going Viral" by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc to write about my life and maybe I'll make something of it one day- or just have this to look back on...maybe

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GOING VIRAL

A SOCIALLY DISTANT LOVE STORY

by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

(Scholastic, 11/2/21)

9781338745191

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When Claire Draper's fictional love story goes viral in the wake of a pandemic, the line between reality and fiction is blurred. But will she be able to tell the difference? Claire is a junior in high school when a worldwide pandemic strikes, and she's in the epicenter of it all in New York City. Suddenly, Claire is forced to isolate with her family indefinitely, which means she won't be able to see her friends or even her girlfriend, Vanessa, in person for a long time. At first it's not so bad, but the longer the pandemic lasts, the more Claire feels her priorities changing. That's when she looks outside her bedroom window and notices something new: A girl who lives in the building across the street sitting on her fire escape. So Claire starts writing a story online about a girl who falls for the girl across the street. To Claire's surprise, the story goes viral-and it seems people think it's true. But how true is true? And what if Vanessa finds out? Will Claire be able to manage her newfound internet fame before everything spirals out of control?

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (November 2nd, 2021)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Gilded by Marissa Meyer 

Sway With Me by Syed M. Masood

Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith

Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards

Coming Back by Jessi Zabarsky

Dreams Lie Beneath by Rebecca Ross

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes

Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed by Various

Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

Cupcake by Cookie O'Gorman

Margot Mertz Takes It Down by Carrie McCrossen & Ian McWethy

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath

Going Viral: A Socially Distant Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells

Tiny Dancer by Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark Siegel

Blame it On the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod

Where Echoes Lie by Shannon Schuren

Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim

The Ballad of Dinah Coldwell by Kate Brauning

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New Sequels: 

A Psalm of Storms & Silence (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #2) by Roseanne A. Brown

Fourth Comings (Jessica Darling #4) by Megan McCafferty--Reprint

Girls of Fate & Fury (Girls of Paper and Fire #3) by Natasha Ngan

Terciel & Elinor (The Old Kingdom #6) by Garth Nix

Faith: Greater Heights (Faith Herbert Origin Story #2) by Julie Murphy 

Fat Angie: Homecoming (Fat Angie #3) by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

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Happy reading!

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Book Review: QUARANTINE: A LOVE STORY by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

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Quarantini Time!

Or: Quarantine: a Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc!

Poor, anxious Oliver is just wrapping up a Spring Break volunteering trip in the Dominican Republic. He just wants to go home, attend a party and somehow work up the courage to ask a girl out. Flora just spent the past week on a disastrous visit to her dad and her airheaded stepmom. Flora and Oliver find themselves on the same flight home from Punta Cana to Miami, and from there, back to NYC. Because they both live in Brooklyn, obviously. 

Sidenote: a message to Brooklyn from the people of Portland - 

And now back to the book review.

Oliver, unfortunately, gets stuck to some guy who is visibly sick, aka every fliers worst nightmare. In an attempt to get away from the obvious disease vector, he moves one row back and sits right next to...you guessed it, Flora. Sparks fly - she calms him down while he has a panic attack on the flight, she thinks his eyes are like a cool breeze. He finds her refreshingly forthright and honest. 

Meanwhile, I’m sitting there reading all of this like:

There’s just one problem: the flight attendants take notice of obviously sick dude, whose backstory, name or anything like that we never learn. They call the CDC, because apparently there’s a new, fun, mutated form of infectious Mononucleosis. Gotta love that Epstein-Barr virus! But this isn’t your average mono, this is tropical mono. It’s tropical, which apparently, with diseases, makes it worse. Seriously, how come we always act like diseases from the tropics are somehow scarier or worse? There are plenty of diseases you can catch in the Northern Hemisphere that are super scary. Like the hantavirus. Or an infection with Naegleria fowleri. Also, you can catch leprosy from an armadillo. We’ve had cases of Plague here in Oregon, yet another reason why I rarely stray east of the Cascades (sorry Central, Eastern and Southern Oregon, but...come on, Plague) or visit the desert (sorry, Arizona and New Mexico, but, come on, look at that CDC map!). Anyway...I had a point here but I’ve lost it. Anyway: mutant mono. Scary stuff.

If you don’t know about mono, you’re in luck! I happen to have a thing for infectious diseases, which I may have mentioned here before. Infectious mononucleosis, sometimes but almost never called “glandular fever,” known by most as just “mono” is an infectious disease caused usually by the Epstein-Barr virus, but some can be caused by other viruses (like the human cytomegalovirus) though those are in the minority. The Epstein-Barr virus is a virus in the herpes family and is a kind-of cousin to my arch-nemesis, Varicella Zoster, the virus that causes chickenpox, and, if you’re me at 24, shingles. You can get shingles at any age, people! And it hurts! Jesus H. Christ, it hurts! It’s like having a white-hot cheese-grater just scraping off your skin at all times. If you think you have shingles, go and get treatment right away, don’t just go “oh, it’s just mosquito bites” and over a week while it feels like your skin is melting off your body...

Uhm. Get your shingles vaccine, that’s all I’m saying.

So anyway, Epstein-Barr. It can cause a ton of different conditions, including a whole bunch of cancers. Most people have had an Epstein-Barr infection at some point in their lives and probably just mistook it for a cold or the flu. But with mono, what happens is you get a fever, a very sore throat, you feel tired as all get out, your glands - especially the ones around your neck - swell up...you know. Mono. Sometimes there are complications to mono, including what is probably my favorite word in the English language but something that doesn’t sound pleasant at all: splenomegaly. That’s just when your spleen swells up. Hurray for the spleen!

Mono is primarily spread through saliva. Like, if you share a drinking glass or kiss. Fun fact: I never got mono as a teen because nobody ever wanted to kiss me or share their drinks. Or be that close to me. Or even hang out with me. Yay? Only in rare, rare cases can mono be spread through other bodily fluids, like blood or semen, so...there’s that.

And now, once again, back to the book review.

Once Flora and Oliver’s flight arrives in Miami, the plane is greeted by none other than the CDC. Yay! Frankly, if I were on a flight that was greeted on the runway by the CDC, I would geek out so hard. The CDC puts all the passengers on a 24-hour hold to see if any of them develop a fever. While they’re going through their final checks, Flora impulsively fakes a fever. She does this by taking the thermometer out of her mouth and then rubbing on it while the CDC worker isn’t looking which...you know what, suspend your disbelief for a while, OK? As soon as it becomes apparent that she has a fever and needs to go into a 30 day quarantine, Flora kisses Oliver. As one does. Now they’re both going to be stuck in quarantine for 30 days. They’re given a room together because...reasons. 

Once in quarantine, Oliver and Flora don’t have much to do other than just hang out with one another. Once Flora starts the hashtag #quaranteen on social media, though, she and Oliver become online famous. Suddenly Kelsey, the girl Oliver had been crushing on back in New York, has come down to Miami and is declaring herself to be Oliver’s girlfriend. Tension ensues! Will Oliver and Flora get sick? Will Oliver finally realize that Kelsey is the absolute worst? And will Flora and Oliver finally just get together goddamn it???

Quarantine: A Love Story is the wonderfully light and fluffy read that I needed in my life right now. The past two books I’ve read were both really sad and depressing - Internment especially takes on a whole new relevance now in light of recent events - so a happyfun YA romance about two teens in a weird situation that appeals to my weird love for infectious diseases was just what my brain called for at the moment. If you happen to know anything about medicine, though, er...don’t come in to this book hoping for a medically accurate depiction of quarantine. I happen to be one of those weirdos who has spent many, many years reading up on infectious diseases and quarantine/isolation treatment in hospitals. Why? Reasons. So there are a few times where I had to go aaaagh, they’re not called hazmat suits - HAZMAT is short for “hazardous materials” in medicine, you wear Personal Protective Equipment. PPE, people! Remember your PPE! Also, did you know the CDC has videos of the proper donning and doffing of PPE? Yup, they do. And it’s not like I haven’t watched all of those videos. I mean, I’m an adult, I have a life and a job and friends, I swear! I don’t spend a lot of my spare time reading about infectious diseases and proper treatments of infectious diseases...

Also, for some reason, in this fantasyland Quarantine, they let visitors take their phones into the room with them. And let the patients touch said phones. And they let their moms bring their purses in with them. Because...quarantine? I could put on my infectious disease nerd hat and go on and on and on about how that’s not how it works, but honestly, I don’t care. I didn’t come here for an accurate depiction of a hospital quarantine situation, if I wanted that, the CDC website is right there, waiting for me. I’m here for a cute YA love story about two teens in a weird situation. And to hate on that awful, selfie-obsessed bitch Kelsey. Yeah, we all know someone like Kelsey. She’s the worst.

But what I did love about this book was both its portrayal of anxiety, and the realistic depiction of how teens communicate. Plus, the romance is adorable. Team Floriver, bitches.

However, If you, like me, are super fond of learning about infectious diseases, go listen to This Podcast Will Kill You - it’s a fantastic podcast all about infectious diseases and probably one of my favorite podcasts, ever. (Go listen to their measles episode, it’s brilliant and sadly very, very timely, particularly for me, currently in the center of a full-scale epidemic caused entirely by stupidity).

In fact, if you’re wondering about the title of this review (if it can even be called a review, I haven’t really remained on topic for more than ten seconds) I shamelessly stole the Quarantini from This Podcast Will Kill You. The Quarantini belongs to the two Erins. A Placeborita is the non-alcoholic version of the drink, and since Quarantine: A Love Story is a YA novel, I figure I should make a Placeborita in its honor. 

So, behold! The Quaranteentini! 

Made out of the best non-alcoholic ingredients I could find in my kitchen while resisting the urge to add delicious, fruity vodka. (Hey, they are a local company, therefore I must drink it!)

The Quaranteentini:

Raspberry La Croix water

Lemon Juice

Grenadine

Lime Wedge

Garnish with gumdrops

Then add Huckleberry Vodka because I’m an adult. Best enjoyed with a general desire to forget the awfulness of the world and lose oneself in a cute teen romance.

RECOMMENDED FOR: Anybody in the mood for a book that is fun and happy and romantic.

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: Infectious disease nerds and medical professionals.

SERIOUS BOOK REVIEWER RATING: 3/5

YA ROMANCE FANGIRL RATING: 500,000,000/5

RELEASE DATE: March 26, 2019

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Oliver wants a girlfriend, and there's a girl back home who might be interested in him. The problem is, he has to spend his spring break on a volunteer trip in the Dominican Republic. Flora, on the other hand, isn't really looking for a boyfriend. She just wants to end a miserable spring break visiting her dad and her new stepmom in the D.R. The solution to both their problems? Get back home to New York ASAP. Sadly, they won't be getting there anytime soon. Their hopes are dashed when Flora's impulsiveness lands them in quarantine -- just the two of them. Now, the two teens must come together in order to survive life in a bubble for 30 days. In that time, love will bloom. But is it the real thing, or just a placebo effect?

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Books Read in July 2021

RR means re-read and S means straight I’m also posting my reviews on Nonbinary Knight Reads and Reviews if anyone wants to read them. I also now have a Linktree that has links to all my other social media accounts where I am posting about the books I’m reading. I only read 5 books this month, but here they are.

A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo

Pitfall by Kelli Jae Baeli

Painted Moon by Karin Kallmaker

Going Viral by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

Wildfire by Toni Draper

My review for Going Viral doesn't go up until September unfortunately. I also made a TikTok for A Touch of Ruckus. Check it out here.

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Books Read in July 2021

RR means re-read and S means straight

I’m also posting my reviews on Nonbinary Knight Reads and Reviews if anyone wants to read them. I also now have a Linktree that has links to all my other social media accounts where I am posting about the books I’m reading.

I only read 5 books this month, but here they are.

A Touch of Ruckus by Ash Van Otterloo

Pitfall by Kelli Jae Baeli

Painted Moon by Karin Kallmaker

Going Viral by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

Wildfire by Toni Draper

My review for Going Viral doesn't go up until September unfortunately.

I also made a TikTok for A Touch of Ruckus. Check it out here.

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that term actually originated from a romance book called “quarantine” by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc :)

All the children born over the last year are going to grow up deeply and profoundly bored with hearing about how they were born during a global pandemic

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“I kiss him, and this time he doesn’t pull away, doesn’t look at me like I’m diseased. Because I’m not.” ✨✈️✨ Quarantine by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc is a really light and cute read. It follows the story of Flora and Oliver, two teens who get stuck in quarantine after being on a flight with a potential carrier of a new strain of mono. It follows them both before, during, and after the quarantine, and the progress of their friendship and eventual relationship. While the story wasn’t completely unique, and the writing was only mediocre, I loved the escapism that this book provided. The cuteness between Flora and Oliver was heartwarming and fun. The banter made me giggle lots of times, and the jokes were cheesy in the best way. Incredibly cute, I think this made a perfect read for the month of February! ✨✈️✨ Quarantine is book 11 for 2021. #bookstragram #books #booksofinstagram #booklover #bookphoto #reading #aussieswhoread #avidreader #bookwhore #aussiereader #bookdragon #reader #readersofig #booksofig #bookcommunity #bookish #bibliophile #readersofinstagram #bookstagrammer #booklife #bookaddict #girlswhoread #readinggoals2021 #auskiwibooksta #bookquote #quarantinebook #katiecicatellikuc #cuteromancenovels #contemporaryromance #cutereads https://www.instagram.com/p/CLEJFsUAlZC/?igshid=15lypx72p2gq2

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Read an Excerpt: Going Viral

When Claire Draper's fictional love story goes viral in the wake of a pandemic, the line between reality and fiction is blurred. But will she be able to tell the difference?

Claire is a junior in high school when a worldwide pandemic strikes, and she's in the epicenter of it all in New York City. Suddenly, Claire is forced to isolate with her family indefinitely, which means she won't be able to see her friends or even her girlfriend, Vanessa, in person for a long time.

At first it's not so bad, but the longer the pandemic lasts, the more Claire feels her priorities changing. That's when she looks outside her bedroom window and notices something new: A girl who lives in the building across the street sitting on her fire escape.

So Claire starts writing a story online about a girl who falls for the girl across the street. To Claire's surprise, the story goes viral-and it seems people think it's true. But how true is true? And what if Vanessa finds out? Will Claire be able to manage her newfound internet fame before everything spirals out of control?

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Quarantine [Katie Cicatelli-Kuc]; 2019 YA Releases #bookblog #bookbloggers "...if the quarantine and the love story are really all there is to it, the novel doesn't really seem as though..." I'll admit that a small part of me does actually want to read Quarantine by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc.

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (March 26th, 2019)

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy

The Cursed Series by Rebecca Donovan

Killing November by Adriana Mather

Unleaving by Melissa Ostrom

The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie

Fake Plastic Girl by Zara Lisbon

Dig by A.S. King

Eyes On Me by Rachel Harris

Sky Without Stars by Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell

XL by Scott Brown

The Dating Game by Kiley Roache

Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott

Quarantine: A Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc 

Brawler by Neil Connelly

In Another Life by C.C. Hunter

New Sequels: 

Undaunted (Fetch #2) by Kat Falls 

Happy reading!

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Quarantine: A Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

Quarantine: A Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc

  Quarantine: A Love Story by Katie Cicatelli-Kuc. Scholastic Press, April 2019. ISBN: 9781338232912.

Format: Paperback ARC

Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3

Genre: YA Romance

What did you like about the book? Oliver and Flora are two strangers on the same flight returning from the Dominican Republic to their native Brooklyn. Oliver is trying to get home to go to a party with…