Goody, goody, goody!
It's Library Grab Bag Time again, folks! For the outrageous sum 25 cents you get a bag full of random books for your reading pleasure.
Oh yeah! We've got some winners this year.
If this doesn't scream classic trashy romance novel, then I don't know what does! The Playboy Takes A Wife...awesome. The blurb on the back says "From Billionaire Bachelor...to Dedicated Daddy?" Ooh, note the question mark! Intriguing.
Ah yes. The historical trashy romance novel! "A woman alone, yet determined to fulfill her dying father's golden dream, Kerry Gallivan heeded to siren call of pioneering and set out on 'the sea of grass'. But how was she to know that while she sailed her prarie schooner, Jed Hunter would become captain of her fate?" I love it when an author uses mixed metaphors! It gives you hope that the qulaity of writing inside the novel will be simply spectacular.
Oh my. So many things to say! The title- what does that even mean? And the teaser on the front: "A shocking secret..." I think the shocking secret it that the scary kid on the cover is really a serial killer, and the two people on the front are her latest victims.
You know, the summary on the back of this one was too good not to share in its entirity. Take a look for yourself, peeps.
"Gypsy Clothing"? "Feline Fan club"? And the fact that the whole plot of the book seems to resolve around "lucrative lavender fields"?? I'm speechless.
And finally...
Judging by this cover art, I was sure this book had been published in the early 80's, at the "heigth" of the BIG HAIR trend (hee! Puns!). But no. This book was published in 1992.
It looks like we have some good (and I use that word pejoratively) choices this year, folks. So help me decide which of these enduring pieces of literature for the full-on review-with-snarky-observations. I'll keep the poll up for the next few days, and then I'll annouce the winner after I combine the votes from both here and my blog.
May the "best" book win!
Poll
Oh yeah! We've got some winners this year.
If this doesn't scream classic trashy romance novel, then I don't know what does! The Playboy Takes A Wife...awesome. The blurb on the back says "From Billionaire Bachelor...to Dedicated Daddy?" Ooh, note the question mark! Intriguing.
Ah yes. The historical trashy romance novel! "A woman alone, yet determined to fulfill her dying father's golden dream, Kerry Gallivan heeded to siren call of pioneering and set out on 'the sea of grass'. But how was she to know that while she sailed her prarie schooner, Jed Hunter would become captain of her fate?" I love it when an author uses mixed metaphors! It gives you hope that the qulaity of writing inside the novel will be simply spectacular.
Oh my. So many things to say! The title- what does that even mean? And the teaser on the front: "A shocking secret..." I think the shocking secret it that the scary kid on the cover is really a serial killer, and the two people on the front are her latest victims.
You know, the summary on the back of this one was too good not to share in its entirity. Take a look for yourself, peeps.
"Gypsy Clothing"? "Feline Fan club"? And the fact that the whole plot of the book seems to resolve around "lucrative lavender fields"?? I'm speechless.
And finally...
Judging by this cover art, I was sure this book had been published in the early 80's, at the "heigth" of the BIG HAIR trend (hee! Puns!). But no. This book was published in 1992.
It looks like we have some good (and I use that word pejoratively) choices this year, folks. So help me decide which of these enduring pieces of literature for the full-on review-with-snarky-observations. I'll keep the poll up for the next few days, and then I'll annouce the winner after I combine the votes from both here and my blog.
May the "best" book win!
Poll