If you haven’t come across 3191 Miles Apart before, you’re in for a treat. MAV and Stephanie write weekly about their thoughts and inspirations. The site is not quite a blog and not quite a magazine. They don’t allow comments, which is very unusual in our interactive web 2.0-obsessed society, but I love taking a break from the constant flow of instant information to see what they’ve come up with. The photographs are always gorgeous and the articles are thoughtfully written. Highly recommended!
{Image from 3191 Miles Apart}
I love a good book cover, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. If I’m in a bookstore without a particular title in mind, the cover is usually what makes me pick up a book. Of course, the content is what makes me read a book, but you can’t discount the importance of covers in marketing a book.
During my recent internship at the children’s department of Allen & Unwin, I kept hearing about a new Young Adult series that the editors were smitten with. I don’t read a whole lot of YA fiction, but I couldn’t resist the beautiful covers of Celine Kiernan’s Moorehawke Trilogy. I probably wouldn’t have looked twice at the Irish publisher’s original covers.
I read the first book over the weekend, and really enjoyed it. If you like YA fiction set in Medieval Europe with a few ghosts and talking cats thrown in, I’d definitely recommend it.
{Cover art by Elise Hurst}
I’ve always been a big reader. As a kid, I was the girl who’d walk and read (and to be honest, I still do that at times). When I got older, I raided my mum’s bookshelves and asked her for recommendations. Then, when I left home for uni, I slowed down. I had new and exciting things to do, and when I did read, it was almost always for class. In the past few months, I’ve rediscovered my love of reading, and it’s been wonderful.
Here are the last three books I’d read. I enjoyed all of them, but I’d especially recommend The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. It’s a light and sweet read, but I was completely charmed by it and finished it in just over 24 hours. Right now, I’m rereading The Time Traveler’s Wife, one of my favourite books ever, in anticipation of the movie (which has yet to be released here) and Audrey Niffenegger’s new book (which I ordered yesterday).
Got any good books to recommend?
