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Cover Attraction (March 18)

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Cover Attraction is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. Marcia says…’I’m a very visual person and love beautiful, or interesting, cover art. It entices, and invites, me to stop and take a peek instead of walking right on by.’ I agree. My cover attraction this week is…

All the Living by C.E. Morgan
Release Date: March 31, 2009

Book Description from Amazon.com:
‘One summer, a young woman travels with her lover to the isolated tobacco farm he has inherited after his family dies in a terrible accident. As Orren works to save his family farm from drought, Aloma struggles with the loneliness of farm life and must find her way in a combative, erotically-charged relationship with a grieving, taciturn man. A budding friendship with a handsome and dynamic young preacher further complicates her growing sense of dissatisfaction. As she considers whether to stay with Orren or to leave, she grapples with the finality of loss and death, and the eternal question of whether it is better to fight for freedom or submit to love.

All the Living has the timeless quality of a parable, but is also a perfect evocation of a time and place, a portrait of both age-old conflicts and modern life. It is an ode to the starve-acre Southern farm, the mountain landscape, and difficult love. In her lyrical and moving debut novel, C.E. Morgan recalls both the serenity of Marilynne Robinson and the shifting emotional currents and unashamed eroticism of James Salter. It is an unforgettable book from a major new voice.’

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This is a debut novel by this author and it sounds like a story that could really draw me in. The reason I like the cover is hard to explain-it seems wide open and turbulent to me. I edited the cover choice to show the Canadian cover which is in color instead of black and white. I like it better with the subtle colors added. I would pick this up in the bookstore because of the cover. I would likely buy it for the description.
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  1. That is a nice cover… I don’t judge a book by it’s cover but sometimes I do buy a book for it’s cover 😀

  2. I usually don’t like book covers that are only a photograph, although this photo is really beautiful.

  4. Just dropping by to let you know I have a super give-away contest running this week (and every week) on my LDS blog at Not Entirely British

    This time, the prize is a copy of award-winning author Annette Lyon’s latest release in her Temple series – Tower of Strength.

  6. Dar, cover as well as description make me want to read this book. I thought of the Southern Reading Challenge. I’m writing this title down. Thanks.

    And thank you for encouraging me about Knit Two. I finished it this afternoon and my review is up. Really liked it!

  8. I have a thing for stormy skies. I like watching them, except in the middle of a raging hurricane (right before the hurricane hits, though, is amazing to watch!). This cover would have grabbed me for that reason!

  10. Great cover!! We are entering tornado season right now in Texas (Oklahoma and Kansas get it worse, I think), but I’ve never seen a tornado in person. Like to keep it that way!! 🙂

  11. Thank you for posting a Cover Attraction this week. The cloud formation immediately drew my eye to this book.

  12. There is something about the cloud formation that interests me and would attract me too.

  13. This one does catch my eye. I love stories that center around farm life. Probably because it is so different than what I am used to, living here in a big city and all. I yearn for the peaceful life!

  14. Thanks everyone for stopping by my cover attraction this week. Stay tuned because I will be reading and reviewing this book soon.

    Sandy, I really enjoy watching storms too.

    Trish, I’ve seen a tornado and I didn’t like it at all. We had a fairly bad one here many years ago that did a lot of damage and took some lives. People here are still pretty scared in the summer when the skies turn black and the air is still.

  17. Anna and Serena, that’s exactly what I like about the cover-the darkness of it. I’m not sure why I’m attracted to covers like that but I seem to be.