Which cover of A Wrinkle In Time? I never likd the uniform covers that they did - gosh, in the 80's, maybe? With the black spines. I like the original A Wrinkle in Time cover better - dark blue, and with silhouettes of the three children each inside a series of concentric circles. At least that's how I'm remembering it, and am too lazy to go downstairs to look. The original cover of A Wind in the Door was by Richard Cuffari, so that was two reasons to read it! A light blue background scheme, and the illustration is of a cherubim.
My copy of Blue Castle is dark blue, with light blue lettering. No dust jacket, no picture, no nothing. I bought it because of the author. Kilmeny of the Orchard, on the other hand, is gorgeous: one of those oval-portrait-pasted-onto-the-front-cover jobs. Don't like the story all that much, though.
There's an old book called The Blueberry Muffin, about a tea room. I latched onto a discarded library book copy of it because it was dark green with, in light pink, a picture of the tea room sign hanging on a post. It just looked cozy, and I had to have it. Also, I love reading about tea rooms. I want to open one. (I could call it The Tea Room of Attolia).
I ordered KoA for my library without having read either of the first two books, based on a recommendation on the Lymond list to which I belong, mostly. I thought the cover was among the best I've seen, in recent years anyway, when so many of the covers I've found quite ugly. I think if I had come across it first in a bookstore, I would definitely have taken a second look.
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Re: In the eye of the Beholder
Date: 10/14/07 05:53 am (UTC)My copy of Blue Castle is dark blue, with light blue lettering. No dust jacket, no picture, no nothing. I bought it because of the author. Kilmeny of the Orchard, on the other hand, is gorgeous: one of those oval-portrait-pasted-onto-the-front-cover jobs. Don't like the story all that much, though.
There's an old book called The Blueberry Muffin, about a tea room. I latched onto a discarded library book copy of it because it was dark green with, in light pink, a picture of the tea room sign hanging on a post. It just looked cozy, and I had to have it. Also, I love reading about tea rooms. I want to open one. (I could call it The Tea Room of Attolia).
I ordered KoA for my library without having read either of the first two books, based on a recommendation on the Lymond list to which I belong, mostly. I thought the cover was among the best I've seen, in recent years anyway, when so many of the covers I've found quite ugly. I think if I had come across it first in a bookstore, I would definitely have taken a second look.