I have the privilege of being the first stop in the blog tour for Dana Reinhardt’s The Summer I learned to Fly. I fell in love with her writing when I read A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life so I was thrilled to be a part of this tour. It seems appropriate to kick-off by learning more about the author. Who better to inform us than Dana herself? Without further ado…
Dana Reinhardt, In Her Own Words:
Dana Reinhardt can’t play any instruments or speak any foreign languages. She can’t juggle or roll her Rs and she’s pretty bad at ice-skating. She’s never been able to do a cartwheel, even back in grade school when all the girls were doing them. She doesn’t like mustard or mayonnaise or really any condiments at all. She’s never won a raffle or a contest, which is one of the reasons she doesn’t play the lottery. (The other is that she considers it a regressive tax, but this isn’t a political blog, so she won’t elaborate.) She’s afraid of bad weather and vampires, so you’ll forgive her if the whole vampire trend in YA literature has her a little out of sorts.
Glad to know I’m not the only one who can’t roll my Rs! Thanks to Dana for sharing some fun tidbits about herself 🙂 It’s always interesting to get a glimpse at authors beyond where they went to school and if they have a cat.
Look for The Summer I Learned to Fly in stores July 12.
About the Book: Drew’s a bit of a loner. She has a pet rat, her dead dad’s Book of Lists, an encyclopedic knowledge of cheese from working at her mom’s cheese shop, and a crush on Nick, the surf bum who works behind the counter. It’s the summer before eighth grade and Drew’s days seem like business as usual, until one night after closing time, when she meets a strange boy in the alley named Emmett Crane. Who he is, why he’s there, where the cut on his cheek came from, and his bottomless knowledge of rats are all mysteries Drew will untangle as they are drawn closer together, and Drew enters into the first true friendship, and adventure, of her life. (from goodreads)
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