Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Similar Covers: Closeups of Women’s Faces

Here are two more pairs of lookalike covers. First, She Was by Janis Hallowell and Pearl by Mary Gordon. Although Pearl was actually published first, I think I like the cover for She Was better (although the Pearl cover is more intriguing). Next there’s Feminisms edited by Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, which uses the same image as was later used on the cover for The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing. I can’t say I really like either of those covers.

She Was by Janis HallowellPearl by Mary Gordon
Feminisms edited by Sandra Kemp and Judith SquiresThe Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing

Edited to add: Check out this copycat cover post at Fresh Ink Books for a third cover that matches Feminisms and The Sweetest Dream.

14 comments:

  1. The books do have different feels even though the pictures used are the same.

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  2. I'm at awe at your awesome finding skills. Good catches once again.

    ~ Popin

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  3. Feminisms sounds like a very interesting anthology!

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  4. Great find! My mouth sometimes falls open when I read these posts. I hope I'm not rude or anything, but I'm really awed by these findings.

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  5. very good finds. i have the cover PEARL. I have not read it yet though.

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  6. I never fail to me weirded out by same covers.

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  7. I like the cover of She Was...Sweetest Dream is a little creepy for my tastes!!

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  8. They're all very haunting, aren't they?

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  9. This is a little ridiculous. Imagine writing a book and pouring all of you into it, and then getting a recycled pic for the cover. I'd be pissed! :)

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  10. I'm so sick of all the covers with women's shoes on them, and a fancy drink glass... There must be marketing studies for publishing companies on this kind of stuff. (Must be -- ha! I'd go for 100 percent on that!)

    I had no idea Mary Gordon had a new book out. I'll have to give that a look at the library. I don't know much about the other authors. I just picked up the latest Joy Fielding and Faye Kellerman books at the library last night, though have yet to start either. I'm currently deeply into a fascinating memoir set in WWII, "Abandoned and Forgotten" the story of the author's being orphaned during WWII and her tale of survival. I had no idea that Germans were forced from their homes (you think you know the basics of history, then you find out you don't). It's a very interesting look at Hitler's regime from the point of view of the civilians forced to live under it. And -- she survives! That's a hopeful thing.

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  11. I have an award for you. =)

    http://bambireads.blogspot.com/2009/08/awards-awards.html

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  12. Need another pair??

    How about these two:

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/061858532X/todayiread-20

    http://cizahagholm.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/isprinsessan.jpg

    (The second one is the Swedish paperback of Camilla Läckberg's The Ice Princess)

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  13. Thanks for stopping by!!!!

    I usually never see the duplicate covers - except on your page - but I think they're really fun, so I was so happy when I saw A Certain Slant of Light on amazon and realized I was currently reading a book with the same photo, albeit from another country!

    I definitely recommend Fables! They're a little bit in the Sandman style, except the art and storylines are simpler. Books 1 through 11 are one story arc and 1001 Nights of Snowfall is separate and gives the backstory to some of the characters (read 1001 after you've read a few of the regular ones!). Number 12 was just published and it's starting a new story arc.

    Yeah, the tags.... I've realized that they don't even help me anymore, so an overhaul is actually scheduled. :)

    The style samples for the graphic novels are just scans from the books, nothing fancier than that. I love graphic novels, but I always want to see the drawing style (it has to add something to the story), and I assumed others wanted to see it too, so I started adding them.

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  14. Interesting... I do think the one for "The Sweetest Dream" is used the best -- I didn't realize it was the same photo at first for the Feminism book because it gets lost. Such a striking photo.

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