SURPRISE SHELF CANDY SATURDAY FAVORITE COVER GIVEAWAY WINNER!!!!

Announcing the winner of my
Surprise Shelf Candy Saturday
Favorite Cover Giveaway!!

This giveaway started at midnight

on 11/24/18, and ended

at midnight on 12/16/18!!!

And the winner is....

Brian @ Babbling Books!!!

 He has already claimed his prize!!
CONGRATS TO BRIAN!!!

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Shelf Candy Saturday No. 270: Let It Snow, by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

Welcome to Shelf Candy Saturday!

***Late Edition***

This is my weekly feature

showcasing beautiful covers!

It also provides information, 
if available, on their 
very talented creators!

Here's my choice for this week!

Let It Snow
 John Green, Maureen Johnson,
Lauren Myracle
Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Speak
October 2, 2008
Anthologies, Christmas Romance,
Contemporary Romance
Young Adult Fiction

My Thoughts About This Cover

This is a beautiful cover precisely because of the simplicity of its design. It's also bold and bright! Additionally, it has a touch of whimsy to it, due to those snowflake-shaped paper cutouts. The cover artist also very cleverly included each author's name inside each paper cutout. 

The look of this cover is very clean and uncluttered, as well. The main visual impact is delivered by the paper cutouts, but the font used for the title is great, and very much in keeping with the overall playful feeling of the design. I just have a little quibble about the title; I wish it had been a bit bigger. The red font color would have popped much more, placed against that lovely, gradually shaded, mint-green background.  However, I'm very happy about the fact that those paper snowflakes take up most of the cover! It just makes it SO memorable, I think! 

One more thing about the paper snowflakes: each one is totally unique, which gives the cover some visual variety. Interestingly, the snowflakes are somewhat similar at the same time. The result is, paradoxically, a unified, cohesive design.

Well..... I have been unable to find any information on this cover artist, whose design, in my honest opinion, is not only fun and upbeat, but also brilliant! I do own this book, but alas, have looked for it all through my shelves, and have not found it.... (I need to look through the books that sit BEHIND other books, too, but that is SO time-consuming....lol.) Heck, I have SO many books already crammed into this apartment that I am not sure exactly where many of them are, when I need them at a moment's notice! Lol. On several occasions, I've even bought the same book TWICE, having forgotten that I already owned it.....only to come across the first copy a few days after buying the second one!! LOL, LOL, LOL. Oh, the woes of a die-hard bookworm!  :)

  
 

What do you think of 
this week's cover?
Please leave a comment
and let me know!

MIDWINTER'S EVE GIVEAWAY HOP, 2018!!!!!

Welcome to this stop in the

Midwinter's Eve Giveaway Hop,

hosted by

Mary @ Bookhounds!!!

My giveaway runs from

midnight, 12/15/18,

to midnight on 1/1/19!!!!!

For my giveaway this year,

I will be offering ONE LUCKY

INTERNATIONAL WINNER a book of

their choice, worth up to $15.00,

from THE BOOK DEPOSITORY!!!

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Can't Wait Wednesday No. 84: Enchantée , by Gita Trelease

Welcome to "Can't Wait Wednesday"!

This is a weekly event hosted by

Tressa @ Wishful Endings!

This is also where we excited book bloggers showcase future releases we're eagerly anticipating! 
For more information, 
please click HERE.


There's also a Linky widget, so participating blogs can link up!

Here's my choice for this week!

 Enchantée

Gita Trelease

Hardcover, 464  pages

Flatiron Books

   February 5, 2019

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, 

   Young Adult Fiction

 

Love.
Magic.
Revolution.

When smallpox kills her parents, seventeen-year-old Camille Durbonne must find a way to provide for her frail sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on petty magic--la magie ordinaire--Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when the coins won't hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family's savings, Camille must pursue a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

With the dark magic she learned from her mother, Camille transforms herself into 'the Baroness de la Fontaine' and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for la magie. Her resentment of the rich at odds with the allure of glamour and excess, Camille is astonished to find that her would-be suitor Lazare, a handsome young inventor whom she thought shared her dreams of liberty, is also living a double life.

As the Baroness de la Fontaine, Camille gambles at cards and flirts, desperate to maintain her place at court and keep herself and her sister off the streets. But la magie has its costs. When a scheming courtier blackmails her and Lazare's affections shift, Camille loses control of her secrets. Then revolution erupts, and she must choose--love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality or la magie--before Paris burns.

Bestselling author of Caraval Stephanie Garber calls Enchantée "a lit firework crackling with treacherous magic, decadent romance, and disguises that take on lives of their own--deliciously addictive!" Gita Trelease's lush, imaginative debut fantasy is perfect for anyone looking for immersive magic in the world of Sofia Copola's Marie Antoinette.

 Why I can't wait for this one!

OH.MY.GOSH. This sounds so FREAKING GOOD!!!!
I haven't read any good historical fiction in quite a LOOONG time and the combination with  fantasy in this novel has me TOTALLY excited!!!
And the setting and time period? LOVE both!! I mean, the court of Marie Antoinette, the French Revolution?! Just.....WOW.
Plus, that cover REALLY rocks!!  It has such an air of mystery and intrigue....and magic, too, of course!
This also brings back nostalgic memories of
studying French in high school, and dreaming of Paris.....

What do you think of my
choice this week? 
Please leave a comment and
let me know!

Teaser Tuesday No. 11: Moonlight Over Manhattan, by Sarah Morgan

Welcome to "Teaser Tuesday"!!


This meme is hosted by  Ambrosia @ The Purple Booker every week, and the rules are very simple.

RULES

* Grab you current read.

*Open to a random page.

*Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere

on that page.

*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!

(Make sure that what you share doesn't

give too much away! You don't want

to ruin the book for others!)

*Share the title and author, too, so that other

TT participants can add the book to their

TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


Note
Since I'm a slow reader, I don't have a new book
started every week. I am therefore going
 to bend the rules a little.....
I'll be featuring books I want to read,
that are currently sitting on my shelves. 
I've also made the teasers a bit longer
than stated in the rules above.

Here are my teasers! 

"You're too hard on yourself. Shrek would seem like a dream date compared to the last three guys I met."

"I've never been compared to Shrek before. I may need therapy to get over that one."

At least he had a sense of humor.

                                          -- Chapter 7, page 101

She was now the proud owner of a Christmas tree.

She was going to have to drag it, which probably wasn't going to do much for its appearance.

"I hope you're hardy. You're going to need to be, living with me."

The man went from grumpy to alarmed. "I'm not living with you."

"I was talking to the tree."

                                        -- Chapter 18, page 252

Moonlight Over Manhattan

(From Manhattan with Love, Book 6)
Sarah Morgan

Mass Market Paperback,  376 pages
HQN

November 28, 2017
Christmas Romance, Contemporary Fiction,
Humor

   
She'll risk everything for her own Christmas miracle...

Determined to conquer a lifetime of shyness, Harriet Knight challenges herself to do one thing a day in December that scares her, including celebrating Christmas without her family. But when dog walker Harriet meets her newest client, exuberant spaniel Madi, she adds an extra challenge to her list--dealing with Madi's temporary dog sitter, gruff doctor Ethan Black, and their very unexpected chemistry.

Ethan thought he was used to chaos, until he met Madi--how can one tiny dog cause such mayhem? To Ethan, the solution is simple--he will pay Harriet to share his New York apartment and provide twenty-four-hour care. But there's nothing simple about how Harriet makes him feel.

Ethan's kisses make Harriet shine brighter than the stars over moonlit Manhattan. But when his dog-sitting duties are over and Harriet returns to her own home, will she dare to take the biggest challenge of all--letting Ethan know he has her heart for life, not just for Christmas?

I've read two Sarah Morgan Christmas romances so far, and I certainly want to read more! The two I've read were totally delightful, and kept me turning pages, laughing right along with the characters! This is the PERFECT time of year to have fun reading light, carefree stuff such as this! And Ms. Morgan is a master of the humorous dialogue, as well as the comedy of errors that is often part of romance!

What do you think of my teasers?

Are you interested in this book?

Please leave a comment, 

along with the link

to your own "Teaser Tuesday" post, 

and let me know!