You can definitely decide to read a book...by it's cover. :) Especially in this day and age, especially when choosing between YA books. I swear, YA probably has the best cover designers in the bookstore (because teens are visually oriented, I suppose). There's just so much...color. These people are brill. Especially when they start creating those covers that only make sense after you've looked at it about a dozen times, like this one. (Think it's two blobs of goo coming from the left and right and meeting in the middle? Think again. It's okay. I thought that's what it was for, oh, two months.)
But then something awful happens. Publishers publish the same book...with a different cover. And you have to choose. And, um, it's a horrible choice to have to make.
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I noticed that happens a lot when a YA hardback book is made into paperback form. But more often than not, the new cover is even better.
I prefer the original version (photo) of GONE. That's what grabbed my attention when I first saw the book. I never would have picked up (and read) the photoless one.
Aw, thanks, Melody! :) Yeah... finishing my book was a lot more quiet than I expected it to be. It was kind of strange. I felt excited, but all I really did was write in my journal about my accomplishment, close the notebook, and go to sleep. It still is a beautiful feeling, though, and I have been doing a ton of jumping around in the blog comments! *jumps up and down for effect* See? ;)
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Oh. And I was going to say... I love book covers too! You're not alone on that. ;) Um, for Across the Universe, I think it's two volcanoes or something, and one is upside down? *has no idea* It looks like shiny blobs to me. I both love and dislike optical illusions at the same time... :-/
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