- List your must-have summer reading (the ones you read over and over again) or give us some of your favorite recommended summer reads.
For this question, I’ll pick the top three summer reads I recommend.
My Recommended Summer Reads:
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
My Life Next Door screams summer! Everything about it fits to be a summer read: first love, first time, first betrayal, basically, My Life Next Door is a book of firsts.
Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
Hot boys, football, and friendships. If that doesn’t make a perfect summer read, then I don’t know what else does.
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
Okay, I haven’t read this book yet because I’m not heading to the bookstore until later this week, but man, doesn’t the cover itself scream summer?
What are your must-have summer reading or recommended summer reads?
Today, Nancy from Tumbling Books is doing a Challenge Post of Cover Re-Do! In Cover Re-Do, we pick a book cover which we can re-do.
The book I planned on re-doing is Wallbanger by Alice Clayton. In my review of Wallbanger, I commented on how terrible and confusing the cover is. My exact words are: “Did you know that I once thought that the guy on the cover had the girl’s legs as his hands? It took about three minutes of me staring hard at the cover to realize that no, his hands weren’t actually legs; there was just a girl behind him.” I mean, can’t you see what I’m thinking?
Well, I worked my magic! Well, kind of. Check it out!
The Actual Cover:
My Cover Re-Do:
My new cover prevents the mis-conception I had with the original Wallbanger cover! Isn’t it genius?
If I wasn’t so lazy, I would have drew an anime/manga type of cover, but nah, that’s too much work. :P
What do you think?
LOL THIS IS HILARIOUS! I love your little drawing! AND YES, her legs look like they would be his hands! haha
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Thank you Nancy! :D
-feels sooo accomplished.- ;D
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that. I felt so stupid when I realized that his arms weren’t really legs. :P
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Kelly,
I’m lovin your cover redo! Lol. Too funny!
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Thanks Tamara! :D<3
It was meant to be funny. ;D
Kelly recently posted…Top Ten Most Intimidating Books
LOL! I LOVE your drawing! I totally didn’t notice it before, but her legs do look like they’re his arms!
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Yay, I’m glad you love it Lee, especially since it’s just stick figures! :D<3
And ha ha, glad to bring it to your attention! ;D
Kelly recently posted…Top Ten Most Intimidating Books
LMFAO. This is genius!
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He he ;D<3
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XD Ohmygod…that so perfect!
Jackie
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I’m glad you think of it as that way Jackie! :D
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Haha! I saw your post last night before I fell asleep and knew I had to come back this morning to comment. I LOVE your redo. I’ve seen some amazing talent today for this challenge, but I’m not quite sure if anyone has created one so… spot on. But really, it DOES look like her legs are part of his arm now that you point it out. And that’s REALLY creepy. I haven’t done my re-do post yet, but I’m hoping mine is as brilliant as yours ;)
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Yay, I’m glad you love it Asti! :D<3
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed that, I was so worried that no one would understand what I meant. :P
And yes, the cover of Wallbanger looks REALLY creepy. -shivers-
Don't worry, it's the effort that counts. ;D
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LOL Kelly I love your alternative cover. I didn’t participate in this challenge cos I was quite intimidated with the other alternative covers I was seeing, but yours is definitely one that cannot be beat LOL
My Day 2 Participation Post
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I’m glad you love it Angelica! :D<3
I tried my best. Hopefully it'll manage to entertain people like how it entertained you Angelica. ;D
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I have to read Catching Jordan. It was so well recieved, but I just havn’t made the time.
Your cover redo is cute.
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You’ll definitely like Catching Jordan Belle! It was so fun, cute, and swoon-worthy! (:
Thanks! ;D
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This cracked me up! You’re right – it definitely looks like his arms have sprouted legs. They should totally have gone with your cover. What were they thinking? :-)
Nicole Hewitt recently posted…Summer Read-a-thon Day 2 – Must-Have Summer Reads and Cover Re-do
I know! I wouldn’t have charged them for using my cover too! ;D
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The Distance Between Us is a book that I really want to get around to reading. The cover’s pretty, the premise is interesting, so I’m pretty interested! :P
Giggling at your redo for Wallbanger! I admit I had the same misconception with the cover. I was thinking “Wow, that guy has some loooong arms.” for a while before I REALLY took the cover in. Haha!
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I’m so interested in The Distance Between Us that I ran off to the bookstore to buy it today. :D
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that way on the cover of Wallbanger. ;D
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I saw the cover for Wallbanger a few weeks before it was given to bloggers for a cover reveal when I was with the ex-blog and I remember thinking it looked like he was plucking a chicken. LOL! Yeah, the whole where are his arms, etc I thought about. I freaking LOVE your cover redo! Brilliant! BUT where are her hands? Over her head? ;)
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LOL, plucking a chicken! LOL, that’s so funny! :D
Thank you! ;D
And, uhhh, his hands are covering her hands? Like, I didn’t want to draw her hands around his non-existent neck because then, it’ll look like a stick figure choking another stick figure. :P
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THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THAT COVER!!!! I was like, what the heck is wrong with that guy? Long arms are sooo weird (I really thought they were arms) then I realized they were legs and then after that I realized it was two separate people!! I felt really awkward, but now I’m glad I wasn’t the only one!! LOL! And I love the redo! It is a true works of art!! You should talk to the author and see if she’d be willing to replace the old cover with that one! ;-)
To make things even better, we’re not the only ones who thought that way. Just look at the other comments! ;D
Thank you! I’m afraid to talk to the author though, who knows, she might be/get offended. ):
Kelly recently posted…Waiting On Wednesday [31]
Great cover redo! It really does clear up that problem. When I frist looked at it I wondered the same thing (does he have legs for arms?).
I haven’t read any of those books that you’ve recommended. I’ll have to put those on my TBR list. They sound like a perfect summer read.
Kim @ YA Asylum
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All three of them are definitely perfect summer reads! :D
Kelly recently posted…Waiting On Wednesday [31]
Oh my god, LOOOLLLLLLL. I am dying at your recreation of the Wallbanger cover.
I never saw the cover as misleading, but now that you mention, lollll.
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Aww, I didn’t want anyone to die when they see my cover. ;D
Ha ha, it definitely does have to be mentioned. :P
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