January TIOLI #4: Cover with a winter scene.

Challenge #4: Read a book with a cover which depicts a winter scene.

This is the thread for most beautiful winter scene cover.

For the challenge, you may read any edition of your book choice with the winter cover. Any type (romance, horror, etc.) of winter cover is acceptable for the challenge. For this contest, however, the win will go to the cover voted most beautiful.

Post the winter scene cover here (regardless of which edition you're actually reading). Please add the title of the book, along with the picture, since the title isn't always very clear when posting images.

I will provide a small prize, and SqueakyChu has volunteered to handle the voting. Voting rules will be posted later in the month. All books marked **COMPLETED** at the end of the month will be eligible for the vote.

(Back to the main January Take It Or Leave It thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/129177 )

(This is just a sample post; I'm not making myself eligible for the contest.)



Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani - Reading

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett

Mine are:

Nothing But Ghosts by Judith Hermann



Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick



Unfinished book covers deleted.

My book is:

Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult COMPLETED



So happy I figured out how to post a cover in a post. Now I just need to do it more often.

I love scrolling through book covers!

I am reading two for this challenge:

1. Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman - COMPLETED



2. Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger - COMPLETED

Tenderness of the Wolves by Stef Penny - COMPLETED

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming - COMPLETED

The Concert Ticket by Olga Grushin

Mine is Light on Snow by Anita Shreve

The True Deceiver - Tove Jansson (UK edition)

Here is another cover of the same book--although this is not the edition I have.

In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton

http://amzn.com/0143105930

I love this beautiful edition of Ethan Frome. How do I post a picture in a thread??

Just realized that my edition of Game of Thrones fits this TIOLI!

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Copy the following:

<IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0143105930.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg">

Alternatively, See message #3 of this thread.

MissLibrarian/13 - Click the 75 Books Challenge link at the top of this page. On that page, then see "Some Useful Threads" under the boldened "NOTE". The last thread in that list, "How to do cool stuff in your thread', gives you specific instructions. If you still have problems with it, post back here and someone will post your cover for you. Good luck!

Wow, Madeline! You're fast!

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Wow, Madeline! You're fast!

LOL!!

Thanks!

Here is another one to add:

Christmas In Sugarcreek by Shelly Shepard Gray - COMPLETED

Almost forgot to post this one:

This is going to be a tough cover contest!

Rules for the Beautiful Winter Cover Contest:

1. All books marked COMPLETED on the wiki are eligible for this contest.
2. A very small prize will be awarded to one winner.
3. All TIOLI challengers are eligible to vote.
4. You will vote by private message to SqueakyChu between February 2 and 6.
5. Please vote for three book covers.
6. You may vote for your own book cover among the three you choose.

(Shamelessly copied from the Spooky Contest and (subsequently) edited for correct month!)

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Shamelessly copied from the Spooky Contest

Haha!

You will vote by private message to SqueakyChu between January 2 and 6.

Don't you mean between February 2 and 6?

Duh! Thanks, Madeline!

:)

I wasn't certain I was going to get to this one, so I waited to post it until I finished.....

Death at Wentwater Court



Wasn't certain I'd get this finished in time!

Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

Too late for the contest, but I wanted to add:

Announcing the ranking of the Most Beautiful Winter Sceen Book Covers in reverse order...

Third Place goes to:

Christmas in Sugarcreek read by crazy4reading

Yay! That was one of the ones I voted for.

Madeline is drawing this out. I may give up and go to bed!

Second Place goes to:

Mrs. Mike read by DeltaQueen50 and countrylife.

First Place (including a small prize) goes to:

The Magician's Assistant read by soupdragon



Congratulations!

Wow, I was not expecting 2nd place (or any place at all!) So many beautiful covers. Congratulations to Crazy4Reading and to Soupdragon.

Congratulations to the winners

Well, thank you very much- how exciting! It hadn't crossed my mind that my book might win, probably because my own copy is a creased second hand one and I hadn't thought of it as being particularly attractive. It looks better in the photo above, I think!

Congratulations to DeltaQueen and Soupdragon. I didn't expect to place at all. Thank you everyone.

Oh, nice--I loved all of those covers.

Excellent judging of books by their covers!

I think I'm partial to winter covers. I had a hard time limiting it to 3. All the winners were in my top 4 picks. Of course, I only submitted 3 of them.

I loved every one of the top three covers. Congratulations, soupdragon! Your prize is on its way!