Romancing the Readers

This year we, myself along with  Born to Read Books  are doing a few new posts. I love changing things up and around. From now on Sunday's will be Sunday spotlight, where I will talk about all things books or share a book with you.  This week I want to talk about "Covers: Person vs Nature scene" Covers are a funny thing. You fall for them for many different reasons. Sometimes there is a hot guy on the cover and you just can't pass that up, others there are pretty flowers that make you feel happy.  As much as I love covers and have been known to pick a book because of it, as a whole they don't really matter to me. Unless...they are badly done. Some of the small press covers are bad. They'd be better off just using a field of flowers or a table set with dishes. I don't know, anything but that guy looks scary in a not hot scary way.  So what about you? What kind of cover lover are you? 

This is something new we (myself along with  Born to Read Books ) are doing new this year. It's where we ask...wtf about something that's bothering us. Fun right! So here is what I want to talk about today. What the hell is with the small print in some paperback books? Why the hell do they make it so small that the only way to read it is by sunlight? I mean, come on!  Here you are trying to get into a book and the words are so small you don't really know what the author is saying, or writing in this case.  Are the publishers trying to save money on paper, or what? There has to be a good reason for this and I'd like to know because if people who are younger than myself have trouble seeing the print in normal light. I know, I had some look at it.  Share your thoughts! 

Here's a quick glance at the reviews and Book Club Thursday posts I did for February. So many good books! Did you read any of them? 3/4/19 In a Badger Way by Shelly Laurenston 3/5/19 The Runaway by Jennifer Bernard 3/11/19 Waiting For You by Claudia Connor 3/18/19 Taming Her Mate by Kathy Lyons 3/25/19 Immortal Nights by Lynsay Sands 3/7/19 Trivia Thursday 3/14/19 Getting to Know Us! 3/21/19 Throwback Thursday 3/28/19 Reading Challenge: Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

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Welcome back to Book Club Thursday! This weeks post: Clearing Off the Book Shelves  Author whose books you are +2 behind on  Read any new to you author  Any series you are +2 behind on  Start a new series  Read a book you’ve had for six months or less  Read a book you’ve had for over a year  Read a book you’ve had for over five years  Read a book you keep meaning to read  READER’S CHOICE  Anything Goes  Just Because  Double Dip  Recommended by  Re read  Second Chance previous read author  Try again (a book you one gave up on)  I really tried, but…  COVERS  Cover you don’t like  Mis-match (cover doesn’t fit book)  Trifecta (cover title & book theme =perfection)  Animals  Nature  Single Person  Objects  Body Parts (head only, torso only etc )  Must Do Read any Someday…Sunday you featured Read any Friday or Sunday book featured by the other blogger I picked this challenge to do: Any series you ar

THE GOODBYE CAFÉ  The Hudson Sisters series, Book 3  On sale March 26, 2019  Trade Paperback • Price: $16.00 • ISBN: 9781501145124  eBook • Price: $7.99 • ISBN: 9781501145162 California girl Allie Hudson Monroe can’t wait for the day when the renovations on the Sugarhouse Theater are complete so she can finally collect the inheritance from her father and leave Pennsylvania. After all, her life and her fourteen-year-old daughter are in Los Angeles. But Allie’s divorce left her tottering on the edge of bankruptcy, so to keep up on payments for her house and her daughter’s private school tuition, Allie packed up and flew out east. But fate has a curve-ball or two to toss in Allie’s direction—she just doesn’t know it yet. She hadn’t anticipated how her life would change after reuniting with her estranged sister, Des, or meeting her previously unknown half-sister, Cara. And she’d certainly never expected to find small-town living charming. But the biggest surprise was that h

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. RIBBONS OF SCARLET: A Novel of the French Revolution, releases October 1st, 2019! Check out the amazing cover below and pre-order your copy today!    A Novel of the French Revolution (Coming October 1, 2019) Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise—upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and ma

There are always so many wonderful books to buy each week. All of us are looking to buy different ones so this is the ones that I would like to buy or will be buying. I will also be throwing some in that I've read in ARC form that I think you'd like. On sale 3/26/19 Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble On sale 3/26/19 Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble On sale 3/26/19 Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble On sale 3/26/19 Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble Not bad this week. How about you? Anything you're looking forward to reading? Give us a shout out what's on your list for 3/26/19!

Title: Hard Loving Cowboy Series: Crossroads Ranch #4 Author: A.J. Pine Publisher: Forever Genre: Contemporary Cowboy Romance Release Date: March 26, 2019 This cowboy's handsome, sexy, and definitely off limits . . .  Walker Everett spends his days at the Crossroads Ranch wrangling cattle-and steering clear of anything that would complicate his already too-complicated life. Until Violet Chastain, the ranch's newest employee, asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend for her parents' anniversary party. She's the most beautiful woman he's ever met and needs his help. How can he refuse? Violet isn't about to fall for a brooding bad-boy cowboy, no matter how sizzling their chemistry. But she also never expected Walker to go along with the charade. Before long, he's charming her parents at their weekly dinners and kissing her way more than necessary. Spending so much time together tests the limits of their "just friends" rel