Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Similar Covers: Another Bathtub Cover
(+ Similar Titles)

This next set of lookalikes was pointed out to me by Eva at One Swede Read. The books are: A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb and Isprinsessan by Camilla Läckberg (which was translated from Swedish into English as The Ice Princess). I can’t say I really like either of these covers; both are too dark in my opinion.



Edited to add:

I found a third cover to match these first two: La femme au portrait (the French translation of Dead Sleep) by Greg Iles.

When I looked up A Certain Slant of Light on LibraryThing, I also discovered that this is a relatively common title...



The books are:
There are several other books with this title, including A Certain Slant of Light: The First Hundred Years of New England Photography by William F. Robinson, but I couldn’t find covers for any of them. All these books take their title from a poem by Emily Dickinson, “There’s a Certain Slant of Light.”

15 comments:

  1. The bathtub cover for A Certain Slant of Light is a little dark, but it goes perfectly with the book!

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  2. I'm amazed that title is so popular. Great discoveries!

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  3. What an odd title. Hard to believe that it's so popular but there it is in black and white (and yellow, green and pink).

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  4. I love these posts because they make me so irritated! I wonder why publishers keep stealing each other's pictures!!!

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  5. You would think the publishers would do everything in their power to make their books stand out from the rest.

    And the authors too, is it that hard to do an Internet search of your prospective book title? Or are these books pre-Internet?

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  6. the only cover that makes sense for any book titled a certain slant of light is the one in the upper left hand corner. But maybe I'm just too literal.

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  7. "I love these posts because they make me so irritated!" LOL!!

    I'm agreeing on the darkness thing - I wouldn't even have picked up Isprinsessan from the cover!

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  8. Well, that's not confusing at all! It's getting to the point that when you ask someone if they've read a particular title, you will also have to say "by..."

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  9. Oh thank you for posting the Dickinson poem. I actually started the Laura Whitcomb book and was curious about the how the author chose the title. So far that book is great and it is a bit of a dark tale so for me the cover is fitting.

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  10. I would highly recommend the Laura Whitcomb book. I read it last year and loved it. I found the story to be quite unique.

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  11. That's funny, I had noted "A certain slant of light"'s title for my sound alike feature, too! I'll have to cross it of the list - especially since I hadn't found all of those!

    I really liked Whitcomb's one, though. I read it last year and really enjoyed it. I love the cover, since I love dark covers. I have Läckberg's book on my TBR pile, too, although in French translation.

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  12. I agree, the covers are a bit too dark. I think if a book has the same title then it should be like the one by Holman where it expands it a bit.

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  13. I'm curious about this word, "dark"? I don't call those covers dark, I call them grizzly!! --and I probably notice this because I usually like books that are 'dark' as in, heavy, broody, discussing negative or difficult qualities--but not ghoulish.

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  14. I didn't know that bathtub cover was reproduced for another book. I looked up books by Laura Whitcomb a couple of months ago when I found out about The Fetch. I agree that A Certain Slant of Light is dark, perhaps too dark for a YA, but who am I to say? Vampires are dark, aren't they? and they're all the rage. =P

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  15. When I saw the 'bathtub covers' title I thought it was going to be a different cover than the ones you have.

    There are several books using the same bathtub pic (I know one offhand - it's Elizabeth Berg's book called Open House). Have you done a post about them? It seems really familiar, like I've seen them on your blog in the past. I could be mistaken though...

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