#judging books by their covers

[criptochecca]

FAVOURITE ITALIAN PUBLISHING HOUSES BY COVER GRAPHIC AND DESIGN WORK IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Adelphi

Fazi

Codice

Einaudi

Tamu

Iperborea

Istrici Salani

Nord (vintage) (pic found online cause im lazy)

#books #i should just make posts like this #judging books by their covers

[felfiramoondesigns]

LIVE ON KICKSTARTER:

2 of 6 of the designs are unlocked and we are halfway to unlocking the 3rd!!

#tbrlist #enamel pins #no sleep only reading #tbr getting out of control #books forever #forever rereading book #rereading #just one more chapter #so many books #so many books but nothing to read #judging books by their covers

[ethicalmanipulativegirlfriend]

it's probably because they look like they fucking suck

#you really CAN judge a book by its cover these days

[vongaught]

So I was talking some hot takes with a friend and pjo fandom, what's your stand?

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy pjo #percy and annabeth #percy series #annabeth chase #annabeth pjo #annabeth percy jackson #pjo series #pjo #percybeth #percy jackson the lightning thief #percy jackson tv show #percy x apollo #percy x annabeth #perpollo #dont judge a book by its cover #percebeth #smartwater

[elitadream]

So I was watching a walkthrough of Super Mario Odyssey earlier today, and one scene in particular really caught my attention. When our hero temporarily takes over Bowser's mind with the help of Cappy to escape the crumbling level with Peach, we see how he almost becomes him in a way. And this gave me an idea. 

What if Bowser intentionally switched bodies with Mario? What if, aided by Kamek's dark magic, the Koopa King found a way to impersonate his enemy in an attempt to discard him for good and rule over the Mushroom Kingdom in a more insidious, calculated way? 

Would Peach still recognize her dear friend somehow?...

A personal take on the classic "Beauty and the Beast" genre. 😉

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Now with a part 2!! (sort of x3) 

#I finally get around to drawing Bowser and it's not even him ARFLKFJHS #Oh well 😅 #next time maybe #my current hyperfixation is just too strong #I swear I can't help it 😭 #Mario #Princess Peach #mareach #deceiving looks #don't judge a book by its cover #the heart is what makes someone who they really are ❤️ #Super Mario Bros #fanart

[whumpster-dumpster]

When the small, unassuming, most underestimated team member is easily one of the most dangerous when pressed 👀

#whump #whump tropes #team whump #don't judge a book by its cover

[red-dead-sakharine]

Loopholes

I saw the tags in @changeling-fae 's reblog, so...

"I swear" does not necessarily mean he put it in the contract. He might have, but we don't know. He gives us his word, not a magically bound contract for this. Though I personally think he will not break his word, considering that Korilla says he's always fair and honest, it still is something to be aware of.

"never use the crown..." doesn't mean he can't use his innate powers against mortals. Or his army. Or send other lackeys, like Korilla or Yurgir, against mortals. Or use ordinary weapons against mortals. It only refers to the crown's power specifically. And against puny mortals he hardly even needs the crown to snap them out of existence.

"to dominate a mortal" doesn't mean he can't use the crown to kill, maim, torture, teleport, displace, tickle, explode, humiliate, and-so-on a mortal, or conquer the material plane. Dominate is a very narrow, singular action to exclude.

In short, he literally only gives us his word, that he won't use one of his weapons to do one specific thing with mortals. He can still use the rest of his arsenal, to do whatever else he wishes.

It's such an obviously flimsy promise full of loopholes, I was very disappointed, that Tav wasn't able to point it out to him at least with an insight check.

And considering that he states during his post-credit scene, that he'll "come knocking at your door", I'd say he was very deliberate with his wording here, and doesn't intend to spare the material plane. But we'll probably never know for sure. He could just mean to take us out for dinner, after all. Right? RIGHT?

#raphael #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #loophole #contract #crown of karsus #I still sign the contract because I trust him because up until that point he has done nothing but help us #there is literally no reason to hate or not trust him beside “he's a devil” #which IS a reason I guess #but I don't judge a book by it's cover! #bg3 raphael #raphael the cambion #rds

[skycowboys]

JuFly "Scraggly"

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#jufly 2023 #drawing #comic #pegasus #don't judge a book by its cover #art #sketch

[yumemiruuuu]

#literally started 2ha right after i said i don’t want to read anything other than tgcf #2ha good tho so far #the cover art got me #it’s always the cover art i stg #don’t judge a book by its cover? oh hunny if only you knew what I’m capable of… #2ha #the husky and his white cat shizun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #xie lian and chu wanning could topple the universe with their cooking

[gildengirl]

“I wanted a thousand different things as we stood there, but most of all, I wanted the girl who had been beside me in Boston to turn and realize that I was beside her now. ... “This feels like a safe house.” She finally turned to look at me. “Doesn't it feel safe, Cam?” “Yeah, Macey,” I said softly. “It does.”

- Ally Carter, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

#Gallagher Girls #Gallagher Girls Series #Gallagher Girls Books #Ally Carter #Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover #DJGC #Cameron Morgan #Cammie Morgan #Macey McHenry #Abigail Cameron #Zach Goode

[petermorwood]

YA or not YA, that is the question...

This started out as a response to Diane’s post here about YA literature and its long history prior to what some people think inspired it, but got longer (Oh! What a surprise!) and wandered far enough from the initial subject that I decided to post separately.

So here it is.

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Many years ago my town library (in Northern Ireland, so following UK library practice, I suppose) had just two sections, Adult and Children. There was no YA section, and the Children’s section covered everything from large-format picture books through to hardback novels and the usual amount of non-fiction.

(Library books were almost always bought in hardback for better wear, and even the softback picture books were rebound with heavy card inserts.)

There were classics like “Treasure Island”,  “Kidnapped”, “King Solomon’s Mines” “Under the Red Robe” and “The Jungle Books”.

There were standalone titles like “The Otterbury Incident”, “The Silver Sword”, “The Sword in the Stone” and “The Stone Cage”.

There were series about characters like William, Biggles, Jennings and his counterpart Molesworth, the Moomins, Narnia and Uncle.

There were authors like Alan Garner, Nicholas Stuart Grey, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Henry Treece, Ronald Welch… And of course there was J.R.R. Tolkien.

The first time I got "The Hobbit", "Farmer Giles of Ham" and "Smith of Wootton Major" they were shelved in the Children's section. This was about 1968-69.

In the early 1970s the library moved to larger premises, which allowed room for Very Young Children (where the picture books now lived) and Children (everything else), still with no YA section, though with more advanced picture books like “Tintin” and “Asterix” * in a sort of no-man’s-land between them.

( * These included editions in the original French, which turned out very useful for making language lessons at school a bit more fun and gaining extra marks in exams through judiciously enhanced vocabulary.)

“The Hobbit” et cetera were still on the Children shelves, but now that the library was larger and more open-plan, volumes of "The Lord of The Rings", normally in the Adult section, occasionally got shelved there as well by well-meaning non-staff people.

I never saw “The Hobbit” mis-shelved alongside “Lord of the Rings” among the Adults, but Farmer Giles” and “Smith” sometimes turned up there, courtesy of those same well-meaning hands.

It’s probably because the first, with its sometimes complex wordplay and mock-heroic plot, reads like a humorous parody of more serious works, while the second, if read in the right frame of mind, can seem quite adult in the style of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Kingdoms of Elfin” - which is in fact a good deal more adult than “Smith of Wootton Major”, even if you squint.

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This “Hobbit” / “Rings” confusion is a lightweight version of assuming a particular author writes every book for the same age-group. This is very much not the case.

Sometimes the thickness of the book is a giveaway. Compare, for instance, @neil-gaiman’s “American Gods” with “Coraline” or indeed “Fortunately, The Milk”.

Sometimes the cover is a hint, for example the difference between “Live and Let Die” by Ian Fleming...

...and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, also by Ian Fleming...

...although the original James Bond novels are – apart from some extremely dated attitudes – a lot more weaksauce than many YA books nowadays.

(More weaksauce still now that Fleming, like Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie, has been censored to conceal the extent to which - let's call them Certain Attitudes - were a standard feature in British popular fiction. Apparently (I haven't read any Newspeak Bond so can't confirm) the redaction was done in a curiously slapdash way, removing some things while leaving others.

These novels have become, IMO anyway, period pieces as much as Kipling, Doyle, Dickens and Austen, and erasure probably has less to do with sensitivity - maybe with some "brush it under the rug and they'll forget about it" involved - than with keeping them marketable, so Fleming doesn't go the way of other once-bestselling writers like "Sapper" and Sydney Horler.)

It would also be a mistake, despite advisory wizards Tom and Carl, to think that @dduane’s “Young Wizards” books are meant for the same age-group as her “Middle Kingdoms” series – although, once again, the later YW books and all of the MK slot into what a modern YA audience expects from its fiction.

But sometimes there’s absolutely no doubt that This Book by This Author is not meant for the readership of That Book by The Same Author. I’m thinking of one example which caused a certain amount of amusement.

“Bee Hunter” by Robert Nye is a retelling of the Beowulf story for children, though IIRC occasional bloody episodes as Grendel takes Hrothgar’s housecarls apart make it more suited to older children. 

I’d brought home a copy from the library when much younger, and borrowed it again years later in company with another Nye novel, “Falstaff”...

...which was poetic, historic, melancholic, often bawdy, frequently funny and at all times most emphatically NOT for children, as indicated by some of these chapter headings - I draw your attention to XX, XXII, XXXII and especially XL... ;->

Yes. Quite... :->

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I was familiar with card index systems from quite early in my life, because my grandfather’s grocer’s shop had a fairly simple one for keeping track of customers, suppliers, stock and so forth, and since the library’s index card system cross-referenced in the same way, I was already home and dry.

If I could remember a title, I'd find the author, and once found I could track down other titles by that author (which, as shown above, can be educational...) Even if I could only remember the subject - historical, adventure, comedy - I'd still have narrowed my search window more than somewhat.

(This from-here-to-there mindset later became virtual train travel by way of the electronic timetables which SBB – Swiss Railways – used to issue on CD, and which let me “travel” anywhere in Europe, complete with a map. Those CDs are long discontinued, but I can still do virtual travel courtesy of the SBB website. Complete with a map…)

This is the last one we got, kept for sentimental reasons and occasional outdated train-travel on an equally outdated XP netbook.

As you do.

Or as I do, anyway. :->

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I also knew about title request cards and interlibrary loans, and was a frequent user - never more so than when I started reading “The Lord of the Rings” for the first time.

The town library didn’t have all three volumes, just “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Two Towers”, so I checked them out on a Friday to read over the weekend.

You can already see where this is going… :->

I finished “Fellowship” late on Saturday afternoon, went straight into “Towers” and by Sunday evening was all of a twitter (no, not that one) or as my mum would have said, up to high Doh, as I fretted about Not Knowing What Happened Next.

Fortunately school was no more than a brisk bike ride from the library, so I devoted my Monday morning break to zooming down and filling in one of the most urgent title requests I’ve ever made, then spent the rest of the week on tenterhooks, looking in every lunchtime and each afternoon on my way home.

Just In Case.

Some kindly librarian must have pulled strings or stamped the request "Expedite Soonest", because when I went back to school after Thursday lunch, I had “The Return of the King” burning a hole in my saddlebag.

I wanted to start reading it at once, but good sense prevailed; imagine getting caught between chapters at the back of a boring Geography lesson and Having The Book Confiscated…

I didn’t pay much attention in class on Friday, due to being half-asleep after starting “Return” in the evening after prep and finishing it in the wee hours of the morning.

But being tired didn’t prevent me from starting with “Fellowship” again on Friday night, and this time being able to read right through to the end without needing to stop.

It Was Great…

#YA books #library age categories #library use #don't judge a book by its cover #don't judge an age group by author #anecdotage

[wandringaesthetic]

Saw some tag comments regarding Animorphs being the epitome of "don't judge a book by its cover" but fourth grade me at Walmart in 1996 absolutely did judge some books by their cover and judged them to be Rad As Hell.

#animorphs #honestly judging books by their covers has gone pretty well for me

[jessmmariano]

I was just watching the Gilmore Girls episode where Luke’s uncle dies, specifically the part where Rory asks Luke where Jess is and Luke replies something like, “He’s probably playing basketball or something.” Basketball?? When have we ever seen/heard Jess do anything basketball related? Is Luke just that unaware of Jess’s whereabouts/interests? Or is Jess secretly a basketball lover? So much so that Luke just assumes that’s where he is? And Rory accepts this so easily, too?

Also—in the episode where he gets attacked by a swan he lies and tells Rory he got the bruise ‘throwing around a football with a buddy.’ Football? Buddy? Jess has never been seen playing sports and has no friends outside of Rory, how did she believe this so easily? Or is Jess secretly obsessed with sports, mainly basketball and football, that it was easy for her to believe?? What is the truth????

#I need answers #he doesn’t seem like the sporty type of guy! #idk don’t judge a book by it’s cover I guess #jess mariano #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #stars hollow #luke danes #literati #rory x jess

[laurieaconley]

Inktober 2023 Day 17: Demon

Sometimes a ghost can be found cheering up a friend. Somebody called Lil Death a demon.

#inktober #inktober2023 #don’t judge a book by its cover #whereaghostmightbe #laurieaconley

[georgiapeach30513]

What am I reading next?

#Jen.polls #polls #books #judge a book by its cover

[comicartarchive]

Judge Dredd 7 Cover by Brian Bolland

#comic book cover #cover art #original comic art #judge dredd #brian bolland #trex