With her relatable characters and heartfelt writing, Jennifer Weiner has established herself as one of her generation’s most beloved authors. Her newest novel, The Next Best Thing, has fans and critics raving once again (and with this summer’s oppressive heat, doesn’t that cover photo look incredibly inviting?). Weiner’s new novel features a young woman with big Hollywood dreams who thinks her fantasies have finally come true, only to find that reality is far-removed from her idealized version of Tinseltown glamour.
To celebrate this latest blockbuster release, we asked Jennifer to offer NOOK Blog readers 3 Things They Don't Know About Me (including a hilarious new vocabulary term that I can really relate to):
1. Nothing fills me with more impotent rage than biting into what I believe is a chocolate-chip cookie or scone, only to discover that it's been filled with RAISINS. I actually got Lizzie Skurnick, who writes the "That Should Be A Word" column for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, to come up with a word for that terrible, horrible feeling. It's "bitrayal."
2. I love reading to my daughters, and my favorite book to read to my four-year-old right now is I want my Hat Back by John Klassen. I do an excellent sad-bear voice. "YOU. YOU TOOK MY HAT."
3. I am currently re-reading the Game of Thrones books. I read the whole series last summer, just for pleasure, and now I'm re-reading with an eye toward structure and skill, and how on earth Martin keeps all those plots moving (not to mention all those names and titles straight!) I love speculative/sci-fi/whatever-we're-calling-it-now. Stephen King's Dark Towers books are also some of my favorites, and I cannot wait until my older daughter finally picks up A Wrinkle in Time, because it's going to ROCK HER WORLD.
A free sample excerpt from this book is available for download on the product page now.
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