Cover Crush
Confession: In real life, I’ve always wanted to be more carefree than I actually am. This urge stirred when I saw the cover for Tarryn Fisher’s ATHEISTS WHO KNEEL AND PRAY. (This book is not about atheism.) I immediately wanted to be the girl on the cover. She’s so wild and beautiful and free-looking, and she might just be in the middle of a ritualistic dance. Just put a bonfire in the background…You see it?
I want in on it all. Come to find out, the book is about a must. And let’s just be honest, if we haven’t already been someone’s muse, don’t we want to? For me, that’s a big YES. 
True Love
I accidentally started reading SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater last week. There was this giveaway (I didn’t win.), see, and it included a quote that you liked from the book, so I started looking for my favorite one, and here I am 3/4 the way through the story again. This book captures me. It gets all the sizzling lightning bolts. 
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Are you reading something worth sharing? I’d love to put a few of your tried-and-true stories on my TBR! 
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Mea Smith 
I love how you pick reads based on the cover! Very brave of you! 🙂 I tend to read old things and avoid most modern things, because I’m somewhat disappointed in a lot of it, for some reason. There is something intangible missing in so much of the modern books that I long for and really miss when it’s not there. It’s weird of me.
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There is a nuance to older books that is captivating. The language and cultural differences, maybe…they seem more romantic in some cases. I think you’d enjoy the Scorpio Races, Amy. It’s set in the past (it doesn’t state specifically, but if I were to guess, 1930s-ish) on a small island, the main characters are so endearing, the prose is poetic, and it mingles myth and life until you don’t know the difference. 🙂
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So now I am googling the first book. The cover is so intriguing. And Maggie Stiefvater…she is such a great writer and this one is one of her best. I totally get the desire to be wilder on the outside too…letting the wildness in our hearts be seen at all times and in all places.
Thanks for sharing!
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RIGHT?!?! That COVER….!!!!!!
I”m a HUGE Maggie Stiefvater fan! And, yes, that’s the goal right? “letting the wildness in our hearts be seen at all times and in all places.” I think Maggie does that well. She is unapologetically HER everywhere and always. I’ve learned a lot from her, and I hope to meet her one day. 🙂
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