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It's umbrella time! I definitely prefer Dearly, Departed. Love the color variation while still remaining pretty much two-toned. Also love the composition, basically both covers are using the same set of tools (color, image, feel) and one just does it better in my opinion.

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Amazon.com:

Maybe I'll decide I have a life story, too, and I'll reveal some of it. 

The good girl, the jock, the beautiful one, and the geek. Tangle them together, and the unexpected happens. 

Jena, Dakota, Skye, and Owen are all in Paradise. When they meet, they have no idea how they will all connect—or that their chance encounters will transform each of their lives. 

The secrets we keep, the risks we take, and the things we do for love: Four months after it all begins in Paradise, none of them will ever be the same. 

This summary doesn't say much about the story but I'll say the happy, smiling faces on the paperback makes me instantly like it. It just looks like a book you want to read, you want to get in on the secret!

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Currently Enjoying...

1. Nips-I've been addicted to these lately, love the soft candy center. 2. People Style Watch-Love this magazine and how its formatted. 3. Coconut Milk by Organix-This smells so good! 4. Hilser Flats from Aldo-These are so bright! I have them in pink too. 5. Degrassi-I love how long this show has been on the air and how kids graduate and new students join the cast. 6. MyGlam Bag Subscription-Has the subscription box craze gotten to you yet? This is a new makeup bag monthly subscription bag that is $10 a month and has high and low end beauty products. 7. Classic Leather Ballet Flats from J Crew-These are a dream (have them in purple too.) The color is so saturated. 8. Spotify-So much better than bringing a pile of cds to work. 9. Daisy Eau So Fresh by Marc Jacobs-Time to whip out the spring and summer scents. 10. Fashion Star-Love the spin on the fashion designer competition show.

This Week In Books

About That Night by Julie James (Amazon)

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Here's a straight forward lookalike, pretty much the same cover created using the same layout and photo. When images of people go into the cool hues (like in Forgotten) the person starts to look dead (especially in the lips) based on the summary it doesn't seem like this book is about death (but who knows).

 

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Hardcover vs Paperback 143

Amazon.com:

It’s been one year since the brutal murder of her older sister, Zoë, and fifteen-year-old Echo is still reeling from the aftermath. Her parents are numb, her friends are moving on, and the awkward start to her freshman year proves she’ll never live up to her sister’s memory. Until Zoë’s former boyfriend Marc shows up with Zoë’s diary.

At first Echo’s not interested, doubting there’s anything in there she doesn’t already know. But when curiosity prevails, she starts reading, becoming so immersed in her sister’s secret world, their lives begin to blur, forcing Echo to uncover the truth behind Zoë’s life so that she can start to rebuild her own.

Prepare to laugh your heart out and cry your eyes out in this highly addictive tale as Alyson Noël tackles the complicated relationship between two sisters and shows how the bond can endure long after one of them is gone.

I think the cover that expresses the seriousness of the summary the most is Keeping Secrets (the 2 in 1 book combo).  It also has the most vivid photography and color I think too.

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This Week In Books

1. The Wonderful World of Fifi Lapin (Amazon)

2. The Alexppo Codex Matti Friedman (Review)

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So this cover for Boys, Girls and Other Hazardous Materials was only seen on the ARC I believe. It's really crazy how similar these covers are, I don't have too much to say about it but woah. 

 

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Hardcover vs Paperback 142

Amazon.com:

Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by suicide bomb. But she refuses to die for the cause, and now Grace is on the run, daring to dream of freedom. In search of a border she may never reach, she travels among malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through the desert. Accompanied by the mysterious Kerr, Grace struggles to be invisible, but the fear of discovery looms large as she recalls the history and events that delivered her uncertain fate. Told in spare, powerful prose by acclaimed author Elizabeth Scott, this tale of a dystopian near future will haunt readers long after they've reached the final page.

This book has always seemed so freaky to me. Based on the summary I think the Hardcover does a better job or matching the plot. 

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This Week in Books

 1. Survive by Alex Morel (Review)

2. 7 Clues to Winning You by Kristin Walker (Review)

3. Beauty by Lisa Daily (Review)

4. My Life in Black and White by Natasha Friend (Review)

5. Underworld by Meg Cabot (Review)

6. The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead (Review)

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These covers and so beautiful and peaceful. I loooove that blue/green aqua color in the background. I think I like Fauna a bit better though since there is more "white space". <3

 

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Amazon.com:

Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom's boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy (aka Thrice B) have been camped out in the back of Hello Yellow (the school bus her mom drives). Still, Amber, the self-proclaimed princess of hope and girl of unyielding optimism, refuses to sweat the bad stuff. But when a fatal tragedy threatens Amber's optimism--and her way of life, can Amber continue to be the rock star of hope?

With an oddball cast of characters, and a heartwarming, inspiring story, this novel unveils a beautifully beaten-up world of laughs, loyalty, and hard-earned hope. The world is Amber's stage, and Amber is, well...she's sorta like a rock star. True? True.

The summary for this book sounds pretty awesome and the covers are just meh. Nothing stands out here for me. I would have loved to have seem the optimism and oddball-ness the summary promises. 

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Giveaway: Chopsticks

One (1) winner will receive:

-A copy of Chopsticks

-$10 iTunes gift card to experience the Chopsticks app

Giveaway open to US mailing addresses only

Prizing & samples courtesy of Penguin 

Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral

CHOPSTICKS was born out of the desire to tell a story with multiple medias, without losing the fundamental truths which make reading fiction an emotional human experience.

The novel’s digital format will still allow you to encounter the lives of Frank and Glory, the characters that fill the pages, but the additional videos, songs and digital links will create a new novel experience.

CHOPSTICKS is a novel, an app, a website. It is a collage of original drawings, objects, text, sounds, and video. It is a love story. It is a mystery. Read it. View it. Experience it.

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This Week in Books

1. The List by Siobhan Vivian (Review)

2. What I Wore by Jessica Quirk (Amazon)

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I think this one goes to Marni, I'm not really a fan of the sideways face, it never seems to look good to me, just awkward. But Ascend has some nice typography! What's really interesting here is that two of the covers are using the same bright blue with their black and white. This is one case I think seeing the original stock photo would help.

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Hardcover vs Paperback 140

Amazon.com:

Perfect, picturesque Orchard Hill. It was the last thing Ally Ryan saw in the rearview mirror as her mother drove them out of town and away from the shame of the scandal her father caused when his hedge fund went south and practically bankrupted all their friends. Now, two years later, Ally’s mother has landed a job back at the site of their downfall, and they’re not exactly receiving a warm welcome. One bright spot, however, is gorgeous, intense Jake Graydon. But it won’t be easy for Ally to be with him—not if his friends (her former friends) have anything to say about it. Ally was hoping to have left all the drama in the past, but some things just can’t be forgotten….

Definitely the hardcover. I think it's a more sophisticated and unexpected (in this genre of books) way to show drama, the aftermath. The paperback has more of a commercial look, there is something about the image on the paperback that is awkward. I think it's the combination of the stiff poses and where the image is cut off, love the handwritten font though!

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This Week in Books

1. Take a Bow Elizabeth Eulberg (Review)

2. The Husband Hunt Lynsay Sands (Review)

3. The False Prince Jennifer A Nielsen (Review)

4. The Vampire Diaries The Return: Midnight LJ Smith (Review)
5. The Vampire Diaries Stefan's Diaries: The Compelled LJ Smith (Review)

6. The Vampire Diaries The Hunters: Moonsong LJ Smith (Review)

7. The Secret Circle The Divide LJ Smith (Review)

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(The Spanish edition of Vampire Diaries:The Awakening by L.J. Smith)

 

Definitely Bree Tanner, as weird as this sounds there is something kind of soothing about the image and the simple black and white and red in this case. The Despertar cover is so zoomed in it's kind of scary (which I guess both of these covers are supposed to be) and that font, looks like it's straight out a cheesy horror movie, no thanks.
 

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"It was August. For years it was August . . . . There was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and music coming from everywhere at once." 

In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an "unmentionable act." It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends—and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity in the disaster that takes shape around them. 

Here is an interesting H vs P. Same photo and layout but different treatment for the typography. I really like the change that was made to the paperback, it really wakes up the whole cover with the use of some bright bold copy! I also really like the angle that the copy is at, definitely makes it more interesting.

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Ooooh pretty pretty. Ok here is what I would like: the title font from Struck, the girl from Mad Love wearing the outfit from Struck with the stream of hearts from Struck. So I guess that means overall Struck is working better for me. But these are two cute covers!

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Press Play: January + February

 

JANUARY

nada- my dvr has been blowing up, I think I've been enjoying it too much to watch many movies :(

FEBRUARY

Gnomeo & Juliet

Bedtime Stories

Geek Charming

The First Time

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Amazon.com:

Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. For all the times that he and Sophia have been connected throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart.

But just when Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally awakens to the secret of their shared past, the mysterious force that has always separated them reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.

I don't have much of an opinion on these covers, I guess I like the hardcover better it's pretty, the paperback just making me think of like the desert and Star Wars.

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This Week in Books

1. When A Scot Loves A Lady by Katharine Ashe (Review)

2. Explorer: The Mystery Boxes edited by Kazu Kibuishi (Review)

3. No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz (Review)

4. Cold Fury by T.M. Goeglein (Review)

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Cartwheels at the beach, who else is excited for Spring to arrive!!! That Summer wins for a simple and successful composition and some nice pops of color. On the Bobby James cover the title and girl basically take up the same amount of same in the same place, and while that works sometimes here it just creates flatness.

 

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Giveaway: GCB Beauty Kit!

 Who's excited for GCB? I know I am! To celebrate the premiere I'm having a giveaway! P.S. I'm jealous of whomever wins, this is a great prize!

“Texify” yourself with a GCB Beauty Kit!

One (1) winner will receive a GCB Gift Bag filled with:
- Nail Polish
-Tweezerman Nail File
-Dual Lip Gloss
-Big Lash Mascara
-Faux Eyelashes
-Minimergency Kit
-Mini Designer Perfume

Prize pack valued at $55

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Amazon.com:

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back. 

Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba’s unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization. 

 Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetic writing style, and an epic love story—making Moira Young is one of the most exciting new voices in teen fiction.

Neither of these covers would make me run and pick up this book but they both have some nice things going for them. I love the simplicity of the monochromatic image on the hardcover and the composition of the photo on the hardcover. 

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This Week in Books

1. Keep Holding On by Susane Colasanti (Review)

2. Wicked Jealous by Robin Palmer (Review)

3. Outfit 911 by Joyce Corrigan (Gift)

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I think these are both kind of cute. Picture is cute and the typefaces on both are cute. Bookmark Days wins me over with the very trendy Pink/Orange combo.  The only thing I'm not digging is the giant pink puddle on the bottom of Bookmark Days, but it seems like one of those things that a imprint or a series does to show it's part of something bigger. Still don't like it.

 

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Amazon.com:

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

When it comes to looking purely at the design I'll give it to the Hardcover, it basically shouts LOOK AT ME! But based on the summary I can see why the cover was changed for the Paperback though it doesn't scream in the same way. Both covers have some beautifully rich colors going on though, yum.

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This Week In Books

1. Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard (Amazon)

2. A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah McLean (Review-Weeee!)

3. White Girl Problems by Babe Walker (Target)

4. Abandon by Meg Cabot (Review)

5. Knits for Nerds by Joan of Dark aka Toni Carr (Review)

6. A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez (Review)

7. The Receptionist by Janet Groth (Review)

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I'm giving it up to Viola in this case, cause well, she has good shoes! No but really it has good type treatment and a more subtle color palette. Love.

 

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Weekly Dose of Crafts

I decided to make a cowl this weekend. In one of my many browse sessions on Raverly I saw someone knit up this cowl in this exact yarn and knew I had to do it.

It's a very simple pattern, ribbing on the top and bottom and that's that. Not a ton to say about this.

Pattern: Lyndhurt Cowl

Yarn: Bernat Mosaic in Ninja

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Amazon.com:

Just when she's finally figured out how to manage on her own, Jill Murray's ex-husband, Seth, is back --crashing into the man-free existence Jill and her ten-year-old daughter, Anastasia, have built so carefully. Jill's life just hasn't turned out quite the way she'd planned. By now, she'd hoped to be jetting around the world as a high-end cultural coach. Instead, she's answering phones for a local travel agency and teaching cooking classes at the community center. Enter free-spirited entrepreneur Billy who hires Jill as a consultant for an upcoming business trip. Suddenly, her no-boys-allowed life is anything but.
 

They say that every seven years you become a completely new person, but Jill isn't sure she's ready to make the leap. It takes a Costa Rican getaway to help her make a choice--not so much between the two men in her life, but between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be.

Hmmm I think both covers speak to different aspects of the summary but I guess I enjoy the paperback more. I really like the composition of the photograph. And all the bright yellow!

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This Week in Books

1. All Woman and Springtime by Brandom W. Jones (Review)

2. Until the Next Time by Kevin Fox (Review)

3. Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick (Review)

4. West of Here by Jonathan Evison (Review)

I got two packages from Algonquin this week. I haven't heard of any of these books but maybe there is something interesting here!

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There is something I can't get past in the Limelight cover. It appears a country road is morphing into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but I can't dig it. According to the summary it's sort of the opposite (Hollywood fading into the country) but either way I'm not sure I like it. True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet while a lot flatter, has some nice pops of color so it will be my winner today.

 

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Amazon.com:

A new life is just a phone call away!

Devi's life isn't turning out at all like she wanted. She wasted the past three years going out with Bryan—cute, adorable, break-your-heart Bryan. Devi let her friendships fade, blew off studying, didn't join any clubs . . . and now that Bryan has broken up with her, she has nothing left.

Not even her stupid cell phone—she dropped it in the mall fountain. Now it only calls one number . . . hers. At age fourteen, three years ago!

Once Devi gets over the shock—and convinces her younger self that she isn't some wacko—she realizes that she's been given an awesome gift. She can tell herself all the right things to do . . . because she's already done all the wrong ones! Who better to take advice from than your future self?

You know when you just get that urge to run to a bookstore (RIP Borders-can't really do that so easily anymore!) and buy a book because it has this great cover, you might already have the book with a different cover but...everything comes together in this new cover. The picture, the pose, the clothing, the color, the layout, a quote saying an author loved the book like crazy! Basically you NEED IT. I think I want to be the girl in the picture on the paperback and have that phone (doesn't it look more magical than an iphone?) Paperback wins! If I have to nitpick (and I'm nothing if not a nitpicker) I'd say I might have picked a different font for the title but something very similar.

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