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3 hours ago by challengingthebookworm

Title: Princess of the Midnight Ball Author: Jessica Day George ISBN: 9781599903224 Pages: 280 pages Publisher/Date: Bloomsbury Children’s Books, c2009. Why shouldn’t she appear tired? She had eleven younger sisters all looking to her for guidance. She had taken her mother’s place as the designated ...

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1 day ago by Mike Capuzzi

Recently, I was having dinner at my in-laws and I noticed the current issue of Country Living magazine sitting on the coffee table. What caught my eye was the red, handwritten word “BIG” and arrow on the cover. I did a double-take to see if this was one of my CopyDoodles (it wasn’t, but it sure look ...

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1 day ago by L.

Take a look at this amazing set of double dips, sent to me by Kerry from New Zealand (Thanks, Kerry!), a reader of this blog. The photographer who took this photo has apparently captured an iconic war image. What’s funny about the use of this image here, is that they look like World War I or II boot ...

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2 days ago by georgyriecke

A small man in a luminous yellow and bold red jacket pushed a well-packaged parcel containing a proof copy of Boris Yasmilye’s new novel, The Bastard, through my letterbox this morning. I will begin to read it tomorrow, Bulgarian dictionary in hand, and will return to this blog sometime late next we ...

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2 days ago by Laurel

July 3, 1908, page 8 Red-Covered Books at Library Mania for Them by Some One Causes Loss of Two More Covers. The mystery at the library over who has an unconquerable desire for the red covers of books was added to Wednesday, when two more books were found with the red covers removed and the body of ...

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2 days ago by Alea

The September Sisters by Jillian Canton The Immortal by Gillian Shields Hmm... this is a hard one for me because I'm in about equal amounts of dislike with these covers, The September Sister's slightly more so. I think it's the yellow title and blue on blue. It's just not doing it for me. And while ...

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2 days ago by susanwiggs

So as you well know by now, I am obsessed by book covers. It’s all part of my obsession with books. Now I need your opinion on an upcoming cover. Just Breathe has a strong, sophisticated cover, clean and light, with a single evocative image: it was a bestseller Next hardcover is Lakeshore Christmas. ...

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2 days ago by January

These are the covers that were "voted off the island." Let me know what you think. Any favorites? I have a few. Looking back, this represents a great collaborative effort between me and Eric, cool guy/designer extraordinaire. 1. Kitchen 2. Beach 1 3. Beach 2 4. Black w/Legs 5. Breast (not mine) 6. L ...

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2 days ago by Jake Seliger

What gives with the numerous pop science nonfiction books with white covers? Both Gladwell books I own have them, as do a variety of others, as pictured here: Is this some bizarre trend? Does white convey authority of some kind? Is my sample size biased? These all seem like possibilities, but, judgi ...

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2 days ago by S. Roit

Short and sweet from Seth Godin's Blog—RIGHT HERE! Hrm. I've gotten to a scene in my writing that should be fun. We're around 68,000 words. I do believe I can flow on out from this part, however, and I have Saturday day off (wahou!) so... Wine is in order for tomorrow night. Yes. I must put this on ...

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