Showing posts with label BookInFocus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BookInFocus. Show all posts

Book in Focus: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Friday, June 26, 2015


It has been weeks since I finished Red Queen and I still haven't finished my review yet, so for now, I'll just feature Red Queen as my Book in Focus this week. *partyy*

As you can see, this book has a very simple but gorgeous cover. The first time I laid my eyes on it on my computer screen, I instantly have this urge to own this book because I am a sucker for beautiful book covers and it falls just slightly behind my most favorite book cover available on my bookshelf, and that is A Thousand Pieces of You.

You see that silver crown tainted with red blood? It's the most fitting illustration for the entirety of the book! It's tells all of the book and it's awesome! But the title is kind of not suited for the book and I'll talk about that in my upcoming review, but all in all, this is a WOW book.


The book without its jacket is kind of boring, though, it's gray and it's lifeless.


Despite the lifeless gray cover under the jacket, flipping it to the very next page just makes you forget all about it. I did not ponder on the meanings and what nots of this page, I just know it was cool. I was just actually hoping that there's a map on this book so that I'd have a better view of the new world I visited.


Here are some snippets of the inside of the book.


"In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again."  -Mare Barrow, Red Queen

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Book in Focus: First Love by James Patterson & Emily Raymond

Sunday, March 29, 2015


I know I haven't been kind enough with this book with my review, but I still want a place for it in my Book in Focus feature because for one, the feature does not solely focus on the content, but with the beauty of the book, though it's an added bonus if it's also a great read. I guess I have a thing for books with red designs because they attract me so much, and that's why I considered putting this here.

But as I said, I recommend this for the people who haven't read The Fault in our Stars yet (hmm, there are people who haven't?? :O).
You can read my review here.


First Love
by
James Patterson & Emily Raymond



This little note in the beginning is so high school, right? Have you tried passing notes with your besties way back? Because I sure did.



I just took a picture of this because 28 is my favorite number. :D

That's it for my Book in Focus today, hope you enjoyed the dirty flowers I used as props. HAHA

Book In Focus: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Book in Focus is a new feature on my blog inspired by staybookish's Novel Portraits. I've always loved taking photos of books I own, snapping a picture of it while reading and uploading it to my instagram account, but I wasn't really aware that there is a thing as book photography. So when I saw Hazel's feature, I thought of trying out some snapshots and upload it here.

Today I'm gonna be featuring

And the Mountains Echoed
Novel by Khaled Hosseini
This book is literally a treasure. I love the cover, it appeals to me as if it's calling out my name and saying "read me", and I did, I started the book on the first day of the month but I left it in Manila because of my exams and then this weekend, after the exams, I started with First Love. Oh my, I'm having a serious book polygamy right here. But anyway,I left the book at home in Cavite so I picked this book again and I'm under the shade of the oak tree once more, absorbing the stories sung through my ears.

See that? It's classic, it's majestic. This is such a beautiful book.
Out beyond ideas 
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

-JELALUDDIN RUMI, 13th century

I've never read any other novel by Khaled Hosseini but the praises for his other novels and the way I'm enjoying the first few pages of the book makes me want to read the others as well. Have you tried reading his novels? Tell me what you think about it. :)



Book in Focus: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Monday, February 23, 2015

Book in Focus is a new feature on my blog inspired by staybookish's Novel Portraits. I've always loved taking photos of books I own, snapping a picture of it while reading and uploading it to my instagram account, but I wasn't really aware that there is a thing as book photography. So when I saw Hazel's feature, I thought of trying out some snapshots and upload it here.


Why We Broke Up
Novel by Daniel Handler
Art by Maira Kalman

Take a peak inside it's dust jacket. It's pretty and I think I love it even more with those rose petals in a white background. This is ome of my favorite book covers of all time. Everytime I take a peek at my shelf, my eyes are always drawn to it, the redness of it and... I think I'm getting weird. Moving on...


This is the best part of it. Real people sharing real heart breaks. I loved reading each and everyone of their stories.