This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
It’s Monday and time for another pick off of my very long TBR list on GoodReads. This week’s pick is a book coming out in June that I just couldn’t resist. It is a romantic comedy with an alien abduction and conspiracy theories galore. I just can’t wait to start reading this one.
The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
Publication Date: June 27, 2023
Summary from Goodreads:
When Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer groom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the talk of aliens, which patently don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she gets abducted by one.
Her abductor is not your typical alien—not gray, or a reptilian, or anything else the popular media might have led her to expect. Instead, the creature is more like an animate tumbleweed—a mass of lightning-fast tentacles and unexpected charm, given that it has no apparent ability to communicate beyond pointing.
Worse, the alien’s second abductee—an endearing con man named Wade—only compounds the problem, for Francie was supposed to spend the weekend talking her roommate out of the wedding, not falling in love herself. How can a guy who sells anti-abduction insurance for a living still manage to be the most sensible, decent man she has ever met?
The more Francie gets to know her abductor, however, the more certain she becomes that the alien is in trouble and needs her help—though she has no idea what the problem is, or how to solve it. Especially as the alien’s abduction spree seems far from over.
But with Wade’s assistance, Francie is determined to get their new friend to its destination—wherever that might be. Because who knows what could be at risk should they fail?
Doesn’t this sound like it will be quite the fun time. I have never been to New Mexico or Roswell, but I have always wanted to. This might be the next best thing to actually going there. Luckily I have an ARC for this one so will be reading it sometime in the next few weeks. I can’t wait.
Do you have a fun book waiting for you to pick up? Let me know in the comments.
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