Monday 27 June 2016

Musing Mondays - Book I Bought & Book Covers


Musing Mondays - June 27, 2016

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

  • I’m currently reading…
  • Up next I think I’ll read…
  • I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
  • I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I can’t wait to get a copy of…
  • I wish I could read ___, but…
  • I blogged about ____ this past week…

I bought the following book in the past week:

Oh man! Howard the Duck is in this HAH!
Last week I did an unboxing post for my June Marvel #collectorcorps box. In that post I mentioned that one of the items I got was a Funko!POP of Squirrel Girl who I've always been very interested in but have never actually gotten around to investigating and reading. So this past Saturday when I decided to have a Bond marathon I realised that I needed to replace my copy of Casino Royale which meant a visit to Amazon. In order to get free shipping though I needed to add a few things to my order, so I added another season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to go along with the 3 seasons that Angie bought for me, and I also purchased The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power. I got an email from Amazon this morning saying it has shipped so I am now eagerly awaiting it's arrival so that I can finally read about Doreen Green and her squirrels.

I suspect that I am going to really really like this particular super hero. From what I know of her she definitely seems like my kind of character. Summary from Amazon:

New series, New Avenger! With her unique combination of wit, empathy and squirrel powers, computer science student Doreen Green - aka the unbeatable Squirrel Girl - is all that stands between the Earth and total destruction. Well, Doreen plus her friends Tippy-Toe (a squirrel) and Nancy (a regular human with no powers). So, mainly Squirrel Girl. Then what hope does the Earth have if she gets hurled back in time to the 1960s and erased from history? At least Nancy will never forget her friend, but what invincible armored Avenger can she call on to help, through the magic of social media? Decades apart, can they avert doom, or will everything go wrong forever? Howard the Duck hopes not...he has an appointment for a crossover!

COLLECTING: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl 1-6, Howard the Duck 6

          THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: What is/are your favourite book cover(s)?



This was actually a really hard question for me to answer. There are so many, so very many book covers that I love. The original Bloomsbury editions of Harry Potter, the cover of Alma Katu's freaky book The Taker, and Deborah Harkness's A Discovery of Witches for example, are all among the many. Overall favourite covers though I think the win has to go to Patricia C. Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles, all 4 of them. They are just the most fantastic and fun covers and some of my absolute all time favourite books to read too.

Dealing with Dragons on the left is the first book in the quartet. What I like best about this cover is that you have 2 of the main characters, Princess Cimorene and Kazul the Dragon and that what you can't tell is weather Cimorene is going for plucky and standing up to the dragon here or if she's trying to be a diva, you find out when you turn the book around and read the summary, but the cover is drawn in such a way to keep you guessing. To me the best detail on the Searching for Dragons cover is something you can't really perfectly see in this image, the expressions on Cimorene and King Mendenbar's faces; Cimorene is a true warrior princess here looking very Wonder Woman or Xena in her fierceness and then the King's just back there all like "Wot?" looking like he has no clue how they got into this situation. Calling on Dragons has to be the best cover in the history of covers thought IMHO. It's got everything, a witch, a winged blue donkey and a badass pregnant heroine. Seriously what more could you ask for here??? The cover for Talking to Dragons was actually what pulled me into this series because it was the first of the books that I saw and I really wanted to know why the adorable dragon has an elf in his mouth, really though it's not my favourite of the 4 but I think I have been pretty clear on which one is...

Lauren

2 comments:

  1. Those book covers are great! I haven't heard of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles before, so, thanks for mentioning the series.

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    1. You're more than welcome! It's such a fun series to read, I've read it at least 6 times. Everything by Patricia C. Wrede is great. (At least everything I've read so far!) Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

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