Showing posts with label book covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book covers. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Book of the Week: The Time Traveling Fashionista



 They say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but frankly, I can't help myself.  A beautiful cover ALWAYS catches my eye.  I have trouble with those bland beige covers you often find in French bookstores, they just don't capture my interest. I must be an in your face kind of girl!

In any event, I digress. This lovely book by Bianca Turetsky is for young adults, and the story line sounds delicious. It involves vintage dresses, traveling back in time and shopping. Need I say more? Looking forward to sitting back and enjoying this one.

Candace Bushnell announced yesterday that she will be writing two more books for young adults and fellow Canadian Tish Cohen has another YA book to be released soon. This has given me the urge to try my hand at some YA fiction. I have a great idea for a story, a wonderful name for the main character, now all I need now is some MORE TIME! Ouf, perhaps I should disappear for two years?!

 On a different note, here are some important words to live by:


Bonne journée!

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Book of Awesome




Having a really awesome week and so I decided to pick up this book today while stopping in at Chapters Indigo. Major bonus: it was signed by the author and autographed with a series of colorful pens that totally put smile on my face as soon as I opened it.

And as I started reading, more smiles kept coming...Little things, it turns out, are extremely important to happiness, and The Book of Awesome will remind you of a thousand little things that will make you happy!

some examples:

Wearing underwear just out of the dryer: Awesome!

Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row: Awesome!

Watching the Price is Right when you're at home sick: Awesome!

Perfectly toasted toast: Awesome!
Getting your ID checked when you're way over the legal age: Awesome!

And one that happens to apply to me this year: When your birthday falls on a Friday or Saturday: AWESOME!

You can visit the author's website: www.1000awesomethings.com.