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to reviews and posts, select blogs are hosting a word from the author's
favorite quotes in the book as a Scavenger Hunt! There is one quote
from Anna and one from T.J. Visit each stop this week to find the hidden
words (they will be numbered for order) and after July 22nd, submit your answer to the quotes here! Random winners for books and swag will be chosen and notified by July 29th.
Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!
Also, next week July 23-27, there will be even more events and chances to win the book and swag!
- Monday, July 23 at 8:00 pm CST - Chat with the author Tracey Garvis Graves! We will be chatting with the author on Savor Chat: http://www.savorchat.com/chat/
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THE ISLAND released in bookstores Tuesday, July 10th! If you see the
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When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.
T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.
Meet Anna:
Q: Summer time is usually a time for fun and relaxing. Your summer (and a few subsequent summers) ended up…interesting and unique. What was the most interesting part for you?
Anna: Well, since I had to make the most out of a pretty dire situation, I’d say that at least the location was beautiful. Some people spend a lot of money to have crystal-blue water and white sand beaches.
Q: What was the scariest?
Anna: I am not a fan of marine creatures, especially sharks. *shudder* I don’t have a lot of love for rats, either.
Q: Some readers are hesitant to read your story since you were T.J.’s teacher. BUT, really, you never were in the traditional sense. You also got some questions when you returned home about your relationship. What would you like to say to anyone who hasn’t read your story that may help them understand?
Anna: I never had the chance to act as T.J.’s tutor, so to me we were just two people who were thrown into a life-or-death situation. Since neither of us had much in the way of survival skills, we learned things together, not as teacher and student, but as two people trying to stay alive day after day. Eventually, as time passed and he matured, I realized he was no longer a boy; he grew into a young man on that island.
Q: What have you learned from this experience?
Anna: Three things: 1) Hope is the most important thing not to let go of. 2) Everything is more manageable if you have someone by your side. 3) Age is just a number and true love conquers all.
Q: What do you know now that you wish you had known before the summer?
Anna: I’m more certain than ever that leaving a relationship that’s going nowhere is the right thing to do. I have such an appreciation for life and I’m not willing to settle for second best in anything.
Q: If there was a moral to your story, what do you think it would be?
Anna: Sometimes you just have to follow your heart; love can be found in the strangest places.
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My REVIEW of On The Island.
Anna: Well, since I had to make the most out of a pretty dire situation, I’d say that at least the location was beautiful. Some people spend a lot of money to have crystal-blue water and white sand beaches.
Q: What was the scariest?
Anna: I am not a fan of marine creatures, especially sharks. *shudder* I don’t have a lot of love for rats, either.
Q: Some readers are hesitant to read your story since you were T.J.’s teacher. BUT, really, you never were in the traditional sense. You also got some questions when you returned home about your relationship. What would you like to say to anyone who hasn’t read your story that may help them understand?
Anna: I never had the chance to act as T.J.’s tutor, so to me we were just two people who were thrown into a life-or-death situation. Since neither of us had much in the way of survival skills, we learned things together, not as teacher and student, but as two people trying to stay alive day after day. Eventually, as time passed and he matured, I realized he was no longer a boy; he grew into a young man on that island.
Q: What have you learned from this experience?
Anna: Three things: 1) Hope is the most important thing not to let go of. 2) Everything is more manageable if you have someone by your side. 3) Age is just a number and true love conquers all.
Q: What do you know now that you wish you had known before the summer?
Anna: I’m more certain than ever that leaving a relationship that’s going nowhere is the right thing to do. I have such an appreciation for life and I’m not willing to settle for second best in anything.
Q: If there was a moral to your story, what do you think it would be?
Anna: Sometimes you just have to follow your heart; love can be found in the strangest places.
SCAVENGER HUNT WORD: Just ~ This is Anna's quote, word #2
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Connect with the Author:
Website/Facebook/Twitter: @tgarvisgraves, https://twitter.com/tgarvisgraves
Connect with the Author:
Website/Facebook/Twitter: @tgarvisgraves, https://twitter.com/tgarvisgraves
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My REVIEW of On The Island.
OMG I am dying to read this book!!!
ReplyDeleteAna Hathaway is such a great actress, at least in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher, I have shied away from this book but maybe I shouldn't. Nice interview.
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I love this, and I really loved this book. Ahhh @ Valerie it's really an amazing book. It's not all creepy and weird like you are thinking. Seriously. If you don't love it you can hunt me down!!
ReplyDeleteLove these kind of interviews. This book is definitely on my TBR. I'm very happy it's now in print too!
ReplyDeleteHave added this to my TBR list, great interview!
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to see so much love for On The Island. I loved the interview.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Autumn!
Great character interview! I'll admit it...I'm one of those who was squeamist about the age difference, no matter how much I've been assured it's not weird. I won a copy of this in another giveaway awhile back, so I'll eventually get to it, though. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat interview! Anna is very inspiring! I loved the three things she learned. Great lessons for anyone!
ReplyDelete1) Hope is the most important thing not to let go of. 2) Everything is more manageable if you have someone by your side. 3) Age is just a number and true love conquers all.
While age IS just a number, still not real comfortable with a 30/17 romance.
ReplyDeleteI have been seeing this book everywhere! Maybe that's a sign I should pick it up at some point. I'm also squeamish about the age thing - even if he was 18 I'd have felt better about it!
ReplyDelete<3 so much love for this book. * happy sigh *
ReplyDeleteOooh, I really want to read this one!
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