July - Colored CoverKit: Pink/Umbrella

This month we are going with the color of pink and our item is an umbrella or parasol. The umbrella can be a regular one to keep you dry or a beach umbrella, golf umbrella or sun shade. And of course the pink can be of any shade from the lightest blush to the brightest neon pink.

To help you out here are a few examples of books that have or have had pink on the cover and contain an umbrella:

: Summer Island by Shelley Noble
: No Judgement by Meg Cabot
: No Words by Meg Cabot
: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
: Peony in Love by Lisa See
: It’s Raining Men by Julie Hammerle
: The Secret Mandarin by Sara Sheridan
: Forgiving Paris by Karen Kingsbury
: The Pink Umbrella Murder by Frances Crane

Have fun with this and if you like, here is the Wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Colored_CoverKIt

I am going for a beach read with Hot to Go by Kristen Bailey

I have quite a few pink volumes but nothing with an umbrella or parasol. I will probably go with Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

I have a movie version of Mary Poppins with a pink cover and Julie Andrews as Mary on the cover.

>4 LadyoftheLodge: I have the same book

>5 lowelibrary: I have had mine since the movie came out. Have you had yours a long time?

>6 LadyoftheLodge: I picked mine up at a library sale in 2022. But Mary Poppins has always been a favorite. I even acted like a kid (I was over 40) when I met Bert and Mary at Disney World.

I have quite a lot of contemporary romances with pink covers, so I will choose one of those. Finding a cover featuring an umbrella was quite hard, but I found a few and will read Once Upon A Dream by Mary Balogh and Grace Burrowes.

I had already planned a re-read of Celia's House by D. E. Stevenson (1943) in July, which I think was inspired by Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

Although it looks sort of coral/orange here, my copy definitely has a pink border, pink lettering and a pink umbrella:

I found the perfect book on Kindle Unlimited. Is it worth renewing my KU, just for one month? Meant to be on a strict budget but I am tempted.
Maybe someone with KU would like to try it for this challenge and let me us know if it is good? :)

My retirement was confirmed! Starting February, a new life starts! And so I shall be reading The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs. One glimpses at an umbrella in the corner.

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>11 Cecilturtle: Congratulations on your upcoming retirement! I just finished The Retirement Plan and found it very entertaining.

>13 lsh63: Thank you! I'm looking forward to it, Lisa!

>11 Cecilturtle: Congratulations on your upcoming retirement! I have not regretted one moment of my retirement.

>11 Cecilturtle: Congratulations Cécile! I hope retirement is as wonderful as the cover of your book!

>15 LadyoftheLodge: >16 VivienneR: Thank you! I've taken a 3-week staycation to get a sense of the feeling. So far so good, LOL!

Deluge: The People That Melt in the Rain #1 by Carolyn Watson-Dubisch and Mike Dubisch ★★★


12-year-old Laura was just a normal girl from Seattle when her mother decided to move to a mysterious town in the Midwest. The moment they arrive at their new home, hundreds of frogs rain from the sky. Her quirky new neighbor has a house full of knickknacks and odd tiny creatures beckoning from the shadows, and there's a terrible curse on the town that makes every summer storm a life-threatening event. Welcome to the town of Deluge.

I downloaded this free Kindle because of the umbrella on the cover. It is a cute story for pre-teens with very colorful graphics. It reminded me of the old show, Eerie Indiana. I did dislike that it ended in a cliffhanger, but I was not interested enough to continue.

>9 kac522: I found the idea of a book inspired by Mansfield Park interesting (since it's certainly the least adapted of Austen's work, and not to overly toot my own horn, but my A Marriage of Inconvenience is a not-at-all-veiled Mansfield Park riff too), so I picked up Celia's House, and I enjoyed it. Very relaxing and cozy.

>19 susanna.fraser: Glad you enjoyed it. D. E. Stevenson can sometimes be hit or miss for me, but she's particularly good with descriptive writing about her native Scotland.

I read The Temporary Roomie by Sarah Adams for this. It has pink on the cover

I reread The Famous Heroine by Mary Balogh. My edition, which also contains The Plumed Bonnet, features a parasol on the cover.

I was afraid that this was going to be a too difficult challenge, but I see so many of you have embraced it.

Congratulations on your upcoming retirement >11 Cecilturtle: You will most likely find that life gets richer and more colorful!

>23 DeltaQueen50: thank you so much!

Another cover with pink The God of the Woods by Liz Moore. The author's name is in pink and it has pink paint dripping down

I have completed my read of Hot to Go by Kristen Bailey, with it's cover of a pink sky and a beach umbrella, this contemporary romance was a fun read.

Starting The Samurai Detectives Volume 1 by Shotaro Ikenami. There are pink elements in the cover illustrations, although they are not so obvious in the digital version.

August is up https://www.librarything.com/topic/385502

I read The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam, which has a bright pink heart on the cover:

>27 Robertgreaves: Continuing with The Samurai Detectives Volume 2, which has pink backgrounds for some cover elements:

COMPLETED The Samurai Detectives: Volume 1 and The Samurai Detectives: Volume 2, both by Shotaro Ikenami and have pink elements on the cover

Murder in the Marais by Cara Black has a pink cover showing an umbrella.

Starting Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. The cover is very pink: