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Cover models who appear on multiple covers are basically cheaters.
Continue reading [Think Aloud] – #28 – Why Your Book Boyfriend Is A Cheater
Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.
As the initial point of contact, a book cover doesn’t necessarily have to tell you what the book is going to be about any more than it should supplement the synopsis in doing so. But sometimes it gets perplexing when we start to form judgments based on simply the face value of the cover. Here are some trends I’ve noticed spread across the genres. I thought about including the book covers that would fit these categories…but decided against it. In doing this, I hope that when you read the trend being listed, you can conjure up book covers that you’ve personally come across and can relate to it even more.
Feel free to hit me up with notable culprits of these trends in the comments below!
Pretty sure the genre most guilty of this is YA contemporary romance. At least for these no-face pictures, you can basically plug-and-play your favourite face into the character and live out whoever you think it might be. But it seems kind of cookie-cutter to me where it’s almost set in stone that the couple on the cover (using the synopsis as a guideline) is the be-all-end-all. So it’s almost as if you’ve read the ending (because potential happily-ever-after shipping is the most important trope, right?) and then you’re basically backtracking to the front to view the spectacle of drama leading up to it. Though, these are just my thoughts considering I don’t read too many YA contemporary.
Continue reading [Top Ten Tuesday] – #24 – Top Ten Book Cover Trends
Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.
In an ideal world where you have a wall lined with bookshelves with slide-y ladders and then other walls lined with framed book covers…what would you opt to hang? Surprisingly, this week involved a lot of revisiting books and absent mindedly staring at all the details of book covers to see which one I coveted the most. Some quickly came to mind while others required a good staring–but I think the general consensus is that I have dry sockets from too much cover gazing. The things you do, right?
I certainly do apologize that I wasn’t able to change this weeks theme up with some creative pizazz.
Book cover images link to their respective Goodreads sites.
1. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
I haven’t read this yet (shame on me) but I think it’s kind of a stark contrast to the other bright covers.
2. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin
I’m holding my breath for this one when I get around to reading this next week (spoiler alert: it’s one of my Bout of Books reads). But there’s truly something about this cover that’s real mellow, honest, and picturesque.
Continue reading [Top Ten Tuesday] – #19 – Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art
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thoughts and afterthoughts. 