Mega Cover Curiosity: Quadruple Trend Update
I don’t really know how this happened, but in my travels and perusings I’ve encountered a batch of covers that fit in with trends I’ve posted about in the past.
Let’s see if we can plug them in where they belong…
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Dark Souls by Paula Morris
Ah, yes, this one goes in the Gothic Gates file:
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Add this cover to the popular Holding Stuff group:
Tighter by Adele Griffin
Another one for the Psycho file:
And, of course…
Nerd Girls Alan Lawrence Sitomer
A new addition to the Socks crew:
Any to add?
Filed under: Cover Curiosity, Covers
About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Oh! I especially love all those great socks! 🙂 e
You’ve really captured all the essentials in this subject area, haven’t you?
Somehow those sock-themed covers look even cuter when they’re all together!
The Ashton Place books don’t technically have gothic gates, but they sure are close! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061791121/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0061791059&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1MWTEXRPFK02ZWJAAAPN
The first thing I noticed along these lines when I worked at a used paperback store in Burbank was that every gothic romance novel ever published seemed to have a painting of a woman in a nightgown (with occasional fully-dressed variants) racing away from a turreted mansion (with rare standing-still variants) at night (with very rare daytime variants).