![]() "Our assignment was to pick 15 covers and comment on them if we wished. Jason from The Book Table wrote this I love it. I didn't want this to get lost in The Book Table's favorite covers of 2009 post. How to Be Inappropriate, design by Alvaro Villanueva:Ĭhronic City, UK edition, design by Miriam Rosenbloom: Impossible Motherhood, design by Carin Goldberg: Nineteen-Eighty Four, UK edition, design by Gra圓18 ( full wrap, etc. Valkyrie, design by Jason Booher ( better image here): The Book of Dead Philosophers, design by John Gall:Įxperimental Geography, design by Kelly Blair: Perforated Heart, design by Jason Heuer ( some great photos here): The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, illustration by Jaya Miceli: ![]() Tiepolo Pink, design by Peter Mendelsund: The Double Life is Twice as Good, design by Rex Bonomelli:Ĭheers! A History of Beer in Canada, design by David Gee: The Great Perhaps, design by Jamie Keenan: (And here are the 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 lists.) Titles are linked to the original post, if one exists, and there's a poll.Ī big thank you to The Book Table, RiverRun Bookstore, and WORD for their lists. ![]() In no particular order, here are my favorite book covers of 2009. ![]() I wish I remembered more about why I hated it so deeply, but I do trust my memory of discomfort and loathing. Ballard holds a special place on my bookshelves. I don't read a whole bunch of it, but I don't have a problem with it per se. If there was an editor within 50 miles of that thing, I'll eat my shorts. When done, I immediately went out and bought two hamsters and a cage so that something could rip that book apart and pee on it. After being hounded by my sci-fi-inclined friends for years, I read Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land. The Guardian's Stuart Evers has written a very, very funny article about "the good side of bad books." It's a hoot, and you should read it now.īut then you should come back here and tell us about the one (or two) novels that made you want to set yourself on fire, punch yourself in the face, or question why you learned to read in the first place. OK, enough of looking at book covers for a day or two. But I thought it might be fun to re-publish a favorite post and ask again: what book do you really hate?) "Kelly was too dumb to properly handle such an event if true, which it was not.(I'm on vacation this week, so posting will be limited. "False story," reads the entry, apparently written by Trump. However, Haberman tweeted out a photo that appears to be a list of questions she submitted to Trump, who appears to have responded to her query about that particular episode with a denial handwritten written in his distinctive Sharpie mostly capitalized scrawl. Just have to fight trouble making creeps like Maggie, and all the rest!" In one case she lies about me wanting to fire my daughter, Ivanka, and Jared. "In it she tells many made up stories, with zero fact checking or confirmation by anyone who would know, like me. "Here we go again! Another Fake book is out, this one, supposedly very boring and stale, by self appointed head case, Failing (unfunded liability!) New York Times writer, Maggie Hagerman," Trump posted. The New York Times author will publish " Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" on Tuesday, and excerpts have been published by various media outlets for weeks, and the former president claimed on his Truth Social website that she had never reached out to him or other sources for confirmation. Maggie Haberman smacked down Donald Trump's angry attack on her forthcoming book about his presidency.
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