#book spread

[mityas-room]

jesse eisenberg’s favourite books ~

hello everyone !! ☆

i am a strong believer that, once you’ve finished reading all of your favourite writer’s works (or at least, all of their writing that appeals to you), you should read their favourite works because it allows you to understand what influenced their writing style as well as experience a more expansive view of the literary world.

for example, i LOVE jesse eisenberg and i adore his writing and often eye it jealously. i just finished bream gives me hiccups, and though i have the revisionist arriving later October, it has struck me that i am almost done reading all of his available works. thus, i’ve moved to reading and learning from his favourite works, and i would have never otherwise discovered the wonderful world of travel narratives and travelogues…

what a long way to say i’m currently reading the places in between by rory Stewart <3

thanks for listening to my rambles!

[nerdynatreads]

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book review || Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

video review || TLDR Version -- September Wrap Up || 13 books!

A perfect kind of stay sexy and don’t get murdered book!

I really enjoyed this, with each chapter being dedicated to a woman serial killer, many of whom I’ve never heard. The author comments in her conclusion that she chose killers from history instead of more recent cases, and I think that definitely worked in her favor for the overarching theme she discussed. It’s easier for us to distance ourselves from these sorts of killers when the most recent was from the 1950s, but it also ensures separation from negatively impacting families of victims. She gives a variety of women from different time periods, from all over the world, and different MOs (though still, lots of poison).

For the most part, this is a quick snippet of these women’s lives, the lead-up to their murders, and their endings, with an occasional discussion into the public’s reaction or how these women were talked about in media and legends. There’s an ongoing point about the dismissal of female killers in comparison to male killers as well. I could have done a bit more digging into those topics to really have this make more of an impact. But, the overall tone of this is very relaxed, with an almost conversational quality to the stories told, which makes sense given that Telfer hosts a historical true crime podcast.

There are creepy portraits of each killer to introduce the chapter, with clever little clues as to what you can expect, which also added well to the aesthetic of the book.

Across the board, I really enjoyed learning about these women and am definitely going to check out Telfer’s newest book.

4 / 5 stars

[am-nessie]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, my entry for Proko’s challenge earlier in the year: make a book cover for your favorite book :)

[rihartna]

Took this picture long ago and didn't know what to do with it. Too pretty to not share💛🤎

[godzilla-reads]

September 6, 2021

I’ve been looking at a lot of inspiration pictures and blogs for doing an aesthetically pleasing “book journal”. Here’s my first spread!

[lost-in-books94]

I’ve been really looking forward to making this spread and honestly it turned out what I was hoping for. I just had this idea of making it look like there was a “hole” in the page that led to space. 

Also, I finished reading Aurora Burning a few days ago and I’m still not over it!

[arthurroseart]

Finally done with these! A cover design and spread design for a class where I reimagined the story “The Lute Player!” In which a king gets kidnapped by another evil king and the queen dresses as a bard and charms the evil king to get the good king back, except the bard is trans cause gay and trans rights babY!!!!

Reblogs Appreciated! I worked hard on these! Likes dont! Help me a lot!

Commissions -- Kofi

[studiebear]

new spread ☺️ really happy how this turned out