Book Blogger Hop

  In the spirit of the Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!

This week's prompt:

Do you judge a book by it's cover?

How about everyone's favorite answer: it depends.  Do I often pick up a book because of it's cover?  Definetly....I'm sure they're are people who make decent money designing and marketing books so that you want to pick it up, read a bit about of the blurb, and then go....OMG!!!! I WANT TO READ [BUY] THIS!!!!

 

The most recent case of me coming close to this is the current, new Penguin edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.  

 

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 Come on!  I barely even knew what Wurthering Heights was about and the damned cover drew my attention to it and made me think: "Oh!  That book looks cool!"  If they made just a poster of that book cover art, I'd totally consider it...and I've yet to buy or read the book!  I very well may hate it, but the cover is alluring.

 

Or, we get the recently reviewed Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.  Even if you didn't know about the provocative title, just look at the cover.

I found my eye drawn to it, even before I knew what it was about.  It's a relatively famous image of President Abraham Lincoln.  It has what appears to be blood around it and a bloody hand-print.  It shows the former President holding an axe.  All of this makes me go: "Oooo!  I wonder what this book is about.  Maybe I should check it out."  And, if you thought it was a book about a bad-ass Abraham Lincoln killing people with an axe....you'd be pretty close to it. 

Then, there are the covers that don't really match up with the cover-art.  Take the wonderful memoir by Susan Jane Gilman, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven. [to the right]  From the cover (and title) you'd probably be forgiven for expecting quite a bit of sex in the book.  The cover has a women, apparently naked except for a large backpack covering her body....  

But yet, there was surprisingly little sex in the book.  Instead, it's a great memoir/mystery of two recent college-graduates backpacking through China.  See...you can't always judge a book by the cover, but sometimes, you find something even better than what you expected.

 

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