Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Hardcover vs Paperback 138



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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Friday, February 24, 2012

Lookalikes 152

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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Thursday, February 23, 2012

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
Prizing courtesy of ABC

Check out a sneak peek!

 

GCB online:
Website - Facebook - Twitter

Visit www.GCBconfessions.com - Tweet #GCB to unlock exclusive content and be entered for a chance to win fabulous GCB prizes!

Here's how to enter:

Fill out the entry form here.

Entries left in the comments of this post will not be counted.
The giveaway is open to addresses within the U.S.
You must be 13 years or older to enter this contest.

The giveaway will end March 5th at 6:59 pm Central Time.

I'm asking for your address straight up. 
I will also email you so you know you have won.
 
I will delete the spreadsheet once I have got the winner's information. 

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Hardcover vs Paperback 137



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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Friday, February 17, 2012

Lookalikes 151

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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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Hardcover vs Paperback 136



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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Friday, February 10, 2012

Lookalikes 150

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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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

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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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Hardcover vs Paperback 135


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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Sunday, February 05, 2012

This Week in Books



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

Friday, February 03, 2012

Lookalikes 149

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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