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Book Review and Recommendation: Still Life With Strings (5 Stars)

Still Life With Strings

L.H. Cosway

     My first book by L.H. Cosway was Painted Faces, which I LOVED, and so I just had to go and read every single other book she has ever written. That's when I found THIS baby here. I mean, just look at that COVER!!! It gives me chills! Butterflies in the stomach!! Makes my heart squeeze painfully with its beauty/peacefulness/promise.

    Now, let me tell you: the actual book has everything this perfect cover conveyed!! A super talented hottie with a dramatically painful past. I mean, the violin!? THAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC INSTRUMENT EVAH!!

And our heroine!!! Cosway ALWAYS hits the mark with them! They're ordinary women, but with a TWIST! She "stands still for money". Isn't that intriguing? And admirable. I couldn't do it. :) (But then again I don't have a problematic/charming family to support). ;D

   And when they MEET!!! Woooeh. Sparks flew from my book!! Suuuuuuuuper sexy and unexpected! They are so cute and adorable and difficult and painful together! I simply fell in love with them! Also, let's not forget the music! The way it was described, the things the characters felt while playing/listening to it... it almost brought tears to my eyes! It was as if I was there. :D I've always enjoyed classic music, and the violin was always my favorite (am I repeating myself?), but Cosway made me see things under a different light now. Things just got much more... enjoyable and special.

    Not many books will actually manage to touch you, or to change you a little bit, like this one. I couldn't possibly recommend this author MORE!!!

*I wasn't paid to write this and used my own copy for review. XD*

This book is now available in this special ebook bundle, Rockers After Dark.

Teaser Tuesday #41

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as following:

• Grab your current read

       • Open to a random page
      • Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
      • Be careful not to include any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others.

Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles.

"Be careful who you talk to; keep your head down. You know what to do. Just don't trust anyone." His words tumbled out so quickly they nearly connected.

"But what about you? I can't leave you here!"

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I am so loving this book. At first it made me SO mad and indignant and almost sick to the stomach with anger with all the injustice, that I had to stop reading it for a couple of days. But all the while I was dying to see what happened next. I finished it yesterday, and already I want to pre-order the second book in the series. *-*

@vollkopf Glad to hear your are liking it! Hope the liking continues. :)
— Kristen Simmons (@kris10writes) January 17, 2013

What is your teaser this week?

Books are Magic -or- Just had to repost it ²

You gotta love 9gag. :D

*Sniff, sniff* Book-sniffers UNITE!

Me, too, buddy. Me, too.

And MANY people call me a weirdo because of that. I mean, what's up with that?
Simply because they cannot enjoy the magnificence, the splendor of different book 'bouquets'! :P
Ok, maybe I'm going too far, but be it new books or even some old ones, they usually smell pretty good.
Except for the moldie ones. And the ones that smell like mothballs. But maybe that's just me. Maybe there's a whole new flavor of 'weirdos' in the Book Sniffing community that enjoy them.
Who knows?
My point is: I like smelling books and I can not lie. You other brothers can't-- AHEM. Uh, sorry.


Anyway. Tell me: Do you smell books or do you think I'm weird, too? :D