Book Meme, Day 20
Jun. 22nd, 2018 05:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak20. Favorite cover.
One of them, anyway, since I can’t narrow it down to only one. But here’s the original cover of Erich Kästner’s Emil und die Detektive. Pure 1920s and Neue Sachlichkeit, but also playful, and the look remained associated with Erich Kästner novels for decades to come. The cover was created by Walter Trier, who as opposed to Kästner did go into exile and died there.
More Trier covers for Kästner I’m also fond of: Here’s Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer, and here Pünktchen und Anton.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Second hand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite Fictional Father
16. Can’t believe more people haven’t read it.
17. Future classic
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
One of them, anyway, since I can’t narrow it down to only one. But here’s the original cover of Erich Kästner’s Emil und die Detektive. Pure 1920s and Neue Sachlichkeit, but also playful, and the look remained associated with Erich Kästner novels for decades to come. The cover was created by Walter Trier, who as opposed to Kästner did go into exile and died there.
More Trier covers for Kästner I’m also fond of: Here’s Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer, and here Pünktchen und Anton.
1. Favorite book from childhood
2. Best Bargain
3. One with a blue cover.
4. Least favorite book by favorite author
5. Doesn't belong to me.
6. The one I always give as a gift.
7. Forgot I owned it.
8. Have more than one copy.
9. Film or tv tie-in.
10. Reminds me of someone I love.
11. Second hand bookshop gem.
12. I pretend to have read it.
13. Makes me laugh.
14. An old favorite.
15. Favorite Fictional Father
16. Can’t believe more people haven’t read it.
17. Future classic
18. Bought on a recommendation.
19. Still can't stop talking about it.
21. Summer read.
22. Out of print.
23. Made to read at school.
24. Hooked me into reading.
25. Never finished it.
26. Should have sold more copies.
27. Want to be one of the characters.
28. Bought at my fave independent bookshop.
29. The one I have reread most often.
30. Would save if my house burned down.
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Date: 2018-06-23 03:57 am (UTC)Re: the sign in the train, beats me, I honestly don't know whether it was just satiric exaggaration or real. Could be either; TBC was still an issue, especially with the Spanish Flu that had ravaged post-WWI Europe just a few years away.