Welcome to The Square Root of Summer "This Is Who I Am Now" Blog Tour!
Harriet Reuter Hapgood’s The Square Root of Summer mixes memories and time travel into a story about grief and love and finding oneself after you go missing. (My review of the book will be up later today.)
THE OFFICIAL WORD
This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity.
Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past:
To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory.
Although Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie's past, present, and future are about to collide—and someone's heart is about to be broken.
THE TOUR
For the book’s blog tour, bloggers taking part were asked to answers a series of questions—first, back in March, then again in May. Here are my answers:
What Brings You The Most Joy In Life?
March 2016: Today? The new Ghostbusters trailer. I am SO here for it.
May 2016: My husband, who tries so hard to make my bad days better, even when I make it supremely difficult to do so.
What Are You Reading?
March 2016: Just finished Siren’s Song by Mary Weber, and am about to start Rebel in the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton and An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.
May 2016: Night Speed by Chris Howard. I’m also slowly making my way through Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (obvs).
What Is Something You’re Really Looking Forward To?
March 2016: BEA 2016! I’ve never been to Chicago.
May 2016: Still BEA. Only one week!
What Is One Thing That’s Worrying You?
March 2016: The fact that Donald Trump Drumpf is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate.
May 2016: (Still March’s worry, but also) Getting everything I need to get done done before leaving for BEA.
What Is Something That You Always Have With You?
March 2016: My phone. I’m completely addicted to being able to access the Internet whenever I want.
May 2016: Still my phone. Pretty sure that’s not an addiction I’d be able to kick in a mere two months.
What Is Something That You Wish You Could Change?
March 2016: I’d like to have more hours in the day. Or, at least, more hours in which I could do what I want, rather than what I have to do.
May 2016: I’d enforce the Golden Rule.
We were also asked to send in physical objects that defined us and include a couple of sentences to explain. You can find a roundup of the photos and explanations on the Fierce Reads blog.
THE AUTHOR
Harriet Reuter Hapgood is a freelance fashion journalist and author of The Square Root of Summer. Her first-ever professional writing credit was for Just Seventeen magazine, and she's been YA obsessed ever since. She likes burritos, cats, Gwyneth Paltrow, and young adult fiction, which she plans to write more of, though she's also considering a PhD in Dawson’s Creek.
You can also visit Harriet's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. And add The Square Root of Summer to your to-read list on Goodreads.
The Square Root of Summer is available now.