Book Cover Meme - Day 18
Feb. 21st, 2025 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elrhiarhodanGanked with love and gratitude from sallymn:
"choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews: just covers."
sallymn:"choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews: just covers."
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Date: 2025-02-21 03:50 pm (UTC)My mother had a collection of Heritage Press books from the late 1940s, early 1950s, before parents had kids (disposable income, I guess). Most of them were "worthy" titles, a number of Charles Dickens, some Dostoyevesy, a copy of Tristram Shandy, a collection of Van Gogh's prints, other titles I don't remember, but the one that always interested me was this one - Thomas Bullfinch's The Age of Fable. I always loved Greek Mythology since finding a book about it in my elementary school library. But this book was special - I discovered it when I was in 6th or 9th grade, when I finally got access to the upper shelf. It had DIRTY PICTURES in it. Modern art (and really ugly!!!) line drawings of nekkid gods and goddesses. I don't think my mother ever looked in it, or it would have been seriously verboten to me!
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Date: 2025-02-22 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-02-23 12:53 am (UTC)And I will probably start a meme with album covers, too. Which will be a bit different. I think I'll do "A Cover and Three Things" or something. The album covers are actually really easy - I use iTunes and it's a snap to pull album art from the app. Book covers are so much harder, esp when I have specific memories tied to certain editions/covers.