Book Covers
Festive Tasks: Door 2, Task 1 – The Spirit of Christmas Perpetual
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Task 1: Holiday books often have covers that try to evoke a certain emotion in the reader. Post a picture, or a gallery of pictures, of holiday themed book covers that really appeal to you, and, if you want to, tell us why. A large part of what I […]
Read MoreFestive Tasks: Door 5, Task 4 – Charlie, the Gothic Romance Virgin Eater
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Task 4: (Cheeky) If you have a cat (or can borrow one from a friend), take a picture of him/her looking particularly fierce and ready to eat a naughty child. If you really want to go all out, photoshop a giant version of your cat onto a picture, prowling […]
Read MoreFestive Tasks: Door 12, Task 2 – Snow Covers
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Task 2: Make us a collage or display of your favorite snowy book covers. Prepare to be snowed in …
Read MoreLitHub: 50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics
Source: lithub.com/50-very-bad-book-covers-for-literary-classics/ When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are … pretty bad. Which, obviously, makes them very fun to look at. [Continue] ________________________________________ Here are some of my personal favorites from the […]
Read MoreOh, look! Matching Spines!
One of the results of this week’s Big Decluttering Project was that rearranging my Golden Age mystery shelves finally allowed me to put up my Margaret Millar omnibus volumes in the upright position and right next to each other. And look what I found! I love it when that happens … Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2112374/oh-look-matching-spines
Read MoreEllis Peters: The Rose Rent
24 Festive Tasks: Door 3 – Melbourne Cup Day, Book: Read a book about horses, with a horse or with roses on the cover, about gardening, set in Australia or by an Australian author. For this one, inspired by Moonlight, I decided to revisit one of my all-time favorite series … with a book that […]
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/06 (Day 6): Favorite Seasonal Covers – Miscellaneous
These are books I’ve read, but my editions have other covers than those shown here … which are so much more seasonal and atmospheric than mine! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1931398/halloween-bingo-2019-preparty-question-for-08-06-day-6-favorite-seasonal-covers-miscellaneous
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/06 (Day 6): Favorite Seasonal Covers — Mysteries and Crime
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1931388/halloween-bingo-2019-preparty-question-for-08-06-day-6-favorite-seasonal-covers-mysteries-and-crime
Read MoreHalloween Bingo 2019 PreParty — Question for 08/06 (Day 6): Favorite Seasonal Covers — the Harry Potter Edition
Covers of other books to come separately! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1931373/halloween-bingo-2019-preparty-question-for-08-05-day-5-favorite-seasonal-covers-the-harry-potter-edition
Read MoreA Book Cover Herd of Reindeer
24 Festive Tasks: Door 18 – Winter Solstice / Yuletide, Task 3: Round up a herd of reindeer on book covers and in book illustrations. … well — and a bunch of boars. Can’t let this one go without a bow to Sir Terry, after all! Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1820163/24-festive-tasks-door-18-winter-solstice-yuletide-task-3-book-cover-herd-of-reindeer
Read MoreA Crown of Light Made from Book Covers
24 Festive Tasks: Door 17 – St. Lucia’s Day, Task 3: Create a “crown of light” from book covers prominently featuring a lighted candle. My feeble attempt at creating the approximation of a circular St. Lucia’s crown: Inspiration for the book covers: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3734.Lamps_torches_candelabras_on_the_cover https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33553.Candles_and_Lamps (These don’t have to be books from your own shelves!) […]
Read MoreBook Covers: Young Women with Flowers
24 Festive Tasks: Door 4 – Diwali, Task 4: During Diwali, people pray to the goddess Lakhshmi, who is typically depicted as a beautiful young woman holding a lotus flower. Find 5 books on your shelves (either physical or virtual) whose covers show a young woman holding a flower and share their cover images. […]
Read More16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 16 – Kwanzaa
Tasks for Kwanzaa: Create a stack of books in the Kwanzaa color scheme using red, black and green and post your creation and post a photo (or post a photo of a shelfie where black, red and green predominate). BONUS task: Create something with your stack of books: a christmas tree or other easily identifiable […]
Read MoreBooks With Numbers in the Title
Shout-out to URL Phantomhive for the idea! All of these are taken from my “Read” shelf. Sometimes, the numbers are in the subtitle. Books with several numbers (e.g., history books with a date range in their title) are entered for all numbers. Note: Updated as of March 2021. Zero / None Half […]
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