If you really want book cover art heaven, just take a gander at the subject on Pinterest. Book plates too. And altered books, and art journals and... Zowie!
Trump’s would be 7 blank rectangles
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If I stopped devoting so many hours a week reading The Times, I'd have the time to read books.
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@NeverSurrender For decades I've been nagged by a line from Thoreau's "Life Without Principle": "Read not the Times. Read the Eternities." Not to forget the line from "Walden": "Who can kill time without injuring eternity?"
For the moment I'm reading articles as a break from David Whyte's "Crossing the Unknown Sea," a meditation on work published in 2001. I suppose some people will call it dated, but I call it timeless, one for readers who are regressing from childhood dreams to live years of quiet desperation, or are finally finding ways to embrace the adventures on the unknown seas.
I am finding all this a bit dated, thanks.
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I am terribly sorry but the direction this is going in, is way out of left field and will not be tolerated. He doesn't have my permission, he is not my master, not my husband, not even my provider. He has no authority to manage my affairs we have a contract that stipulates as much that was just signed yesterday.
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@Shinto_Crucible - Um..I think this message was meant for someone..else?
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@Shinto_Crucible I'm so intrigued...
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So how do you get invited to post your jacket pictures? I've got hundreds that would blow any of these away.
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So you passively-aggressively show how erudite you are to your legion of followers because, "it is a challenge, after all."
I think I'll just read a book this week and hide the fact from my legions.
Just in passing - I looked at a few and saw so many well-thumbed covers of Eat, Pray, Love that it made me sad.
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What? You're not going to challenge us to join the game? I'm hurt.
This made me think of that wonderful movie featuring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, "84 Charing Cross Road."
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Alright I'll play. But the books will have to come from material I currently am reading, all garnered from the bookshelves of the local Goodwill on discount Tuesdays:
' Vendanta for the Western World ' First paper back version of Christopher Isherwood's 1971 exploration of some of the seminal figures in the introduction of Yoga and Hinduism to the Western World; including Aldous Huxely ,Swami Vivekananda and Isherwood himself.
'The Victor Book of the Opera; One Hundred and Ten Operas with Seven Hundred Illustrations'. The pictures of the stages are astounding and the photos themselves from this 1912 hardback are priceless and include such Operatic luminaries from the turn of the Century as Enrico Carsuo as the heart broken Clown Canio in 'Pagliacci'; Nellie Melba as Violetta in 'La Traviata'; Marcel Journet as Mephistopheles in 'Faust'.
'Shakey' Neil Young's Biography- Insider Jimmy McDonough's 2002's look at the incredible song writer, musician and performer. Who is ,along with Bob Dylan, maybe the most influential figure in Rock music that came out of the turbulent but artistically fruitful 1960's era, that is still alive and performing .
'Rain of Gold' by Victor Villasenor- A veritable Mexican 'Roots' which is a timely and readable tale of Mr Villasenor's families struggles to immigrate from Mexico to the United States, following the Mexican Revolution. Their struggles to fit into 1920's southern California society ,once here, alone is worth the read.
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Thanks for the recommendation.
@Mari
This is what exactly, if not an adoption of proprietary material that was not approved by an adult.
I wish someone would challenge me! It would mean that someone else could enjoy all those books I bought solely for the cover art.
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In addition to the book covers, I’d love to see Attorney General William Barr’s summations of them.
To Kill a Mockingbird – Small-town lawyer shoots dog; looses case
The Odyssey – Man refuses to ask for directions
Lord of the Flies – Boring field trips turns into a ‘50s beach party
Of Mice and Men – Bunny farm bromance
Catcher in the Rye – Lovable rascal visits the big city
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@J L S
Clever. Very. That game can seriously pass a lot of time. Do Finnegan's Wake: Meandering drunken riverwalk through Dublin.
Interesting, and now a few books to look for. I suspect album covers should be the next instagram challenge!
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@Steven - old ticket stubs from concerts and Broadway shows one attended -- this already exists on line and it's fabulous. I'm so sorry tickets are going digital.
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She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But on my bookshelf, she was Lolita. And next to her, I found behind the Sheltering Sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. But then, suffering from such ennui, I remembered that Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so On The Road. And with Nabokov, Bowles, and Kerouac keeping me company, I stopped at 3 instead of going for 7.
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