Can you tell a book by it's cover? Or title?

yoyobon_gw

11 years ago

Here's something to think about........

What book have your picked up and read BECAUSE you liked the COVER DESIGN??

Or....

What book have you picked up and read BECAUSE you liked the TITLE ?

( include photos if possible for cover design !)

( I know, I know, too much of the teacher-assignment in me ;0)

My answers:

Cover design: Maisie Dobbs series

Title: Guernsey Isle Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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yoyobon_gw
Original Author
11 years ago
Oh here's one that had both title and cover design that made me buy it !!
veer
11 years ago
Interesting subject Yvonne, as I have been planning to buy a copy of Jane Eyre for a friend who, somehow had never read it. She claims her class never 'did' it at school, which seems a feeble excuse for never reading it. ;-)
Anyway I was looking at the Book Depository site (free delivery to Canada being too good an offer to turn down) and came up with over seven hundred choices . . .
If you had never heard of Jane Eyre and looked at even 20 of them, I wonder how many of those covers would give you a clue to what lay inside?
May be the ones showing a single female, or the 'artist's impression' of a busty female and a hunky guy. But what about rugged mountains, coastal scenes and ones so 'obscure' they have no 'meaning' at all?

Answers on a post card please.

Here is a link that might be useful: Will the Real Jane Eyre . . . .
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I love to gift people, especially children, with books which have their name in the title. ;0)
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Siobhan, you just persuaded me to look for that book at my library!

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