Challenge 3: A Book You Pick Solely Because Of The Cover

Ida's book: "My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories" compiled by Stephanie Perkins (St. Martin's Press) 2014

This challenge was beyond tricky and I have spent so many hours looking through lists of "10 most interesting book covers" and the like. In the end, I decided to compromise: I wanted to read something christmassy for December and went to my local Waterstones to have a look at their display of christmas books. This one caught my eye because it wasn't peddling a Victorian notion of christmas, and the cover felt amazing. I know that's a bit of a weird thing to say, but it is rather soft and I'm a sucker for textured covers, and the purple colour is very pretty (it looks more blue on the picture, but it is purple). It's a collection of YA (young adult) which people normally take to mean teenagers. I don't see why other people shouldn't read YA novels, they might be written from the viewpoint of teenagers, but haven't we all been there once? This collection also happens to feature one of my favourite authors, Rainbow Rowell, so I admit that made the purchase a lot quicker. Hopefully the book will bring lots of christmas spirit to the cold and dark December!

Comments:

I absolutely loved this collection of christmassy stories! There was something for everyone, ghost stories, stories of love and stories of hope, just what you need for this time of year, really. What I also realised was that it was very inclusive and diverse, something that I hadn't noticed was lacking in the other books that I read but which made it refreshingly honest and real in a way. I will definitely be coming back to this book next December!