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Lädt ... Bibliophile: Diverse Spines (2021. Auflage)von Jamise Harper (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. (4.5) I love books about books, and this one is very well done. It features booklists, author picks, bookstores, and more. The design is very colorful and attractive, with thick paper and a lovely cover. Thanks to the publisher & Goodreads for a copy in exchange for an honest review. ( ) This is supposed to be a book for bibliophiles with lots of loverly reading lists and some author insights. It has lots of book recommendations, but they are mostly books I haven't heard of and I've been reading for 60 years, and have read most of the classics. It was a gift, so thankfully I didn't buy it. Don't bother to pick it up. You can get better recommendations on GoodReads and other sites. The Sequel Tops the Original Review of the Chronicle Books hardcover edition (November 2021) [4.5 for hardcover (due to size issues explained below), 5 for resize-able eBook] See sample page at https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/7291/5805/products/9781797211916.PT01_720... A sample book stack page from 'Bibliophile: Diverse Spines' showing co-authors Jane Mount's favourites (left) and Jamise Harper's (right) favourites. Image sourced from the publisher Chronicle Books. Although I enjoyed the original Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany (2018) for the most part, it stuck very much to the popular reading canon and didn't go very afar afield in providing further TBR leads for me. This sequel Bibliophile: Diverse Spines tops it in almost every aspect. The only downside is if you prefer using the hardcover edition over an e-Book variant. The new book is sized 6.35 x 8.4 inches vs. the original's 8.3 x 9.65 inches, i.e. it is 2/3rds the size. The result is that although the book spines are still readable, they are relatively quite tiny. When the book covers are shown they are postage stamp size. Again mostly readable, but require a bit of squinting or a magnifying glass to appreciate the care taken by artist Jane Mount in painting the reproductions. An eBook edition which allows you to zoom in obviously overcomes that issue. Bibliophile: Diverse Spines is a combined effort by book promoter Jamise Harper and artist Jane Mount, along with contributions from dozens of other collaborators. The focus is on books available in the English language, but that does include books translated into English from other languages as well. 'Diverse' includes books from primarily African-American, Latin-American, Asian-American as well as international and LGBTQ+ authors. The books themselves are represented by Jane Mount's painted reproductions of their spines and occasionally of their covers. The selection of themed book stacks, author's recommendations, bookish people recommendations, writer's rooms, beloved bookstores, featured editions over time, featured designers and illustrators was a total delight and a fountain of possible future TBR choices. I think the total number of books pictured here are somewhere between 800 to 1,000 (a very rough guess based on 28 book stack pages x an average 25 books a stack = 700 + 100 to 300 books otherwise featured). About 300 to 400 books get a specific descriptive blurb or recommendation which is plenty on its own but everything is made to look and sound intriguing. I particularly enjoyed the focus on book designers and illustrators which was provided, including crediting their names in the reproductions of the book cover art. This is an area of book promotion which I don't think gets enough credit these days. A book cover designer ... distills the essence of a book to attract potential readers, or to put it simply, to advertise the book. It's a marketing tool as well as a type of visual literary criticism. ... Increasingly, I think it means giving the potential reader a sense of what it feels like to read the book. - book designer Linda Huang. The main goal of a book cover is to sort of distill down the purpose of the book into one recognizable rectangle. - book designer Cassie Gonzales. Highly recommended for lovers of book art and design and for readers looking to diversify their TBR. Trivia and Links Follow the book's associated themed website Diverse Spines and its Twitter. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary, coauthors Jamise Harper (founder of the Diverse Spines book community) and Jane Mount (author of Bibliophile) collaborated to create an essential volume filled with treasures for every reader"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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