30 Days of Books - Day 19
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Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)
I don't pay much attention to book covers. Le gasp, I know, some serious artwork goes into some of them, people spend a lot of time planning them, they play into the whole marketing of the book, etc. Obviously, ya gotta put something on a cover. 99% of the time, it could be completely blank & just have the title and author's name on it and it'd make as big an impression on me as those ones that wrap around from the front to the back & are done by someone moderately famous. I never cared much about album covers, either (yes, I am old enough to remember not only records, but the importance of album cover artwork) except for the Eagles' album with the eagle skull on it that scared me endlessly when I was a kid.
The ones I do enjoy are mostly on mass-market paperbacks, where the cover has a cut out that displays a small portion of the inner leaf, and when you open the cover, the bigger picture is usually vastly different than what's seen on the outside. Like the Flowers in the Attic books.
The inside cover of the second edition of Stephen King's Misery was a classic, too.
What I enjoy more than book covers are maps on the inner cover page. It's been a source of much frustration that libraries usually deface the maps to glue or otherwise fasten the book jacket to the inside of the books, thereby rendering half the map unreadable and unreachable. I like maps, especially ones of fantasy lands, places with no equivalent locations to earth. I'd love to have a map of the Imajica. I also like prehistoric maps, trying to figure out where modern landmarks are in comparison to where they might have been.
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 – Most annoying character ever
Day 24 – Best quote from a novel
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack
Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?
I don't pay much attention to book covers. Le gasp, I know, some serious artwork goes into some of them, people spend a lot of time planning them, they play into the whole marketing of the book, etc. Obviously, ya gotta put something on a cover. 99% of the time, it could be completely blank & just have the title and author's name on it and it'd make as big an impression on me as those ones that wrap around from the front to the back & are done by someone moderately famous. I never cared much about album covers, either (yes, I am old enough to remember not only records, but the importance of album cover artwork) except for the Eagles' album with the eagle skull on it that scared me endlessly when I was a kid.
The ones I do enjoy are mostly on mass-market paperbacks, where the cover has a cut out that displays a small portion of the inner leaf, and when you open the cover, the bigger picture is usually vastly different than what's seen on the outside. Like the Flowers in the Attic books.
The inside cover of the second edition of Stephen King's Misery was a classic, too.
What I enjoy more than book covers are maps on the inner cover page. It's been a source of much frustration that libraries usually deface the maps to glue or otherwise fasten the book jacket to the inside of the books, thereby rendering half the map unreadable and unreachable. I like maps, especially ones of fantasy lands, places with no equivalent locations to earth. I'd love to have a map of the Imajica. I also like prehistoric maps, trying to figure out where modern landmarks are in comparison to where they might have been.
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 – Most annoying character ever
Day 24 – Best quote from a novel
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack
Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?
