Title: Love Is the Winner
Author: Natalie Shipman
Cover artist: Nelson Davis
Estimated value: ~$15
- And Joan is the loser.
- You can tell by Joan's face that she is *not* going to lose her man to some cut-rate Lauren Bacall. "First, watercress sandwiches. Then ... revenge!"
- That knob at fake-Bacall's crotch level is, to put it mildly, distracting.
- I'd say the paperback title is an upgrade. "Who Wins His Love" = the "Who's on First" of book titles.
- I am serious when I say I want the top third of this cover on a t-shirt. WHAT'S A GIRL TO DO indeed.
- "Or shall she turn to another man..." Wait, were there really no other options in there?
- Are the demanding lips forming words that are demanding, or are they just ... really muscular and squirmy on your face?
Page 123~
"Are you having lunch with Jim?" Mrs. Converse had asked before she left.
"I'm going to telephone him," Kathy said. "He may be tied up."
I have to imagine him literally tied up, because otherwise this ends up being the single most boring Page 123 I've ever read.
~RP
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2 comments:
Still working through the archive binge; I had to skip a whole lot in the middle because the images weren't showing up on the blog unless I clicked through to Flickr, and ain't nobody got time for that. A bit of a shame, but I have to imagine fixing it would be a giant pain.
I'm commenting on this one because a] no one else has and b] I parsed the title as being both the paperback and hardback ones at the same time. "Love is the Winner (who Wins his Love)" sure sounds like a Shirelles song that didn't quite crack the Top 100, doesn't it?
P
Yes, a big pain, but this is a lifelong project, so I will fix it (I've already begun)
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