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20 Book Covers, 20 Days. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

20/20
Cover for the book "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir. Black background with chunks of white dust at the top and a fog of white dust on the bottom from all the exploding skeletons pictured primarily on the right and left sides of the cover. A woman clothed all in black, wielding a sword in her right hand, wearing face makeup made to look like a skull, wearing big black sunglasses, and sporting short orange hair walks through the exploding skeleton dust. Author's name is at the top in orange capital letters. Title is in white beneath the halfway point in vaguely gothic stylized capital white letters. Beneath that, a quote from Charles Stross reads, "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!"
January 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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19/20
Cover for the book, "On a Pale Horse" by Piers Anthony. Color of cover is yellow. Top small text reads in black, "An Extraordinary Novel by." Author's name in Orange capital letters is given next. More small black text immediately beneath reads, "Book One of Incarnations of Immortality." Title in black capital letters follows. Bottom two thirds of the cover is dominated by a long thin image that does not stretch the entire width. Image is bordered in medium weight brown and then white lines. Displays a cityscape with buildings and lampposts to the left and right, a sunrise or sunset in the middle background, and a yellow sports car driven by a hooded grim reaper on the bottom half foreground.
January 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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18/20
Cover for the book, "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. Background colors split in the middle, black on bottom and a yellow-orange gradient on top. Top text is a quote from Library Journal that reads, "Embraced by many contemporary readers as a manual on how to succeed in life." Title in orange capital letters comes next. Text beneath title in black reads, "A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword." Depicted in the middle of the cover is a feudal Japanese warrior in blue, black, and white wielding a spear and armed with katana and wakizashi at the hip. Author's name is in yellow capital letters below and to the left with a thin red line separating the bottom text which reads in white, "Translated by Thomas Cleary." The first part of that is italicized and the translator's name is presented in all capital letters.
January 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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17/20
Cover for the book, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. Author name in bold white text at the top center with a thin red line over and a thin red line under that makes a box surrounding the title, cover image, and other text. The title is in yellow with "the picture of" in a kind of handwritten cursive typeface and "Dorian Gray" in plain, bold, tall typeface. Words at the bottom in yellow read, "For perpetual youth, what would you do?" The word "you" there is italicized. Beneath that, in white capital letters, are the words "COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED." The image is of a man with slicked back short black hair in a gray suitcoat holding a top hat with one hand and using the other to attempt to block view of the portrait painting behind him. He has a look of panic on his face. The massive painting behind him depicts a very old man with discolored skin, misshapen features, reddened and staring eyes, a shock of thin white hair, and broken and decayed teeth. The figure is dressed in a black overcoat and tie.
January 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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16/20
Cover of the book, "Le Morte d'Arthur" by Sir Thomas Malory. Image shows book tilted, displaying spine. Signet Classics logo in black and gold is at the top of both spine and cover. Cover is white with speckled photo grain and black watercolor effects. Author name in black is at the top between two red crosses. Title is in red beneath that with a thick black line in the middle. Reads, "King Arthur aand the Legends of the Round Table" immediately below title. The handle and part of the blade of a sword occupies the left side of the cover, creating a visual separation between the text above and the silhouetted image of a group of mounted knights with banners below. Just above the knights, it reads, "The Classic Rendition by Keith Baines." At the bottom, in a strip of torn black, it reads, "With a new afterword by Christopher Cannon." The Spine is red. Below the Signet logos is the same group of knights from the cover, rendered small. Author name and title in white are next, oriented vertically. Keith Baines' name is below that, oriented horizontally. Pricing info is in a white box with a black border below.
January 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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15/20
Cover for the book "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. Cover is black, author name is in orange, title is in yellow, thin white lines between. The "g" in "Agatha" is stylized into a circular frame which depicts a suited man with a bowtie, a large mustache, and a bowler hat against a white background. Just above the author name is small white text that reads, "A Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery." The top corner show the "POCKET" logo and pricing text. There appears to be sideways text along the spine at the top left but it is obscured by the worn creases of the cover. The bottom small white text beneath the title and thin white line reads, "(formerly titled MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH)." Shown to the right of the title is the image of a locomotive blowing steam and casting lights on the tracks ahead, set against a brown clock with red numbers and a fist wielding a sharp dagger.
January 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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14/20
Cover for the book, "Bloodlist" by P.N. Elrod. Top text in white reads, "Book One in the electrifying series" followed by "The Vampire Files" in red with a stylized border in purple underneath that look like fangs. Author Name and Title in white follow. A quote from Mystery Scene right below reads, "Very Entertaining!" Depicted in the background is a full moon over a cityscape enshrouded in fog. A yacht sits in a body of water, its lights reflecting into the water. A spotlight is cast on a person's body, washed up on shore nearest the perspective of the viewer. In the foreground, on the left side of the cover, a man (from the shoulders up) with fangs, an overcoat, and a fedora, looks out from the cover at the viewer.
January 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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13/20
Cover for the book, "Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. Cover is a dark purple. The words Harold, Purple, and Crayon are in a very light purple and all caps. The words "and the" between Harold and Purple are the same color but are lower case and italicized. The words "by Crockett Johnson" are a smaller font in white or something close to it and are italicized. All the text sits closer to the left side of the cover. Depicted on the right bottom is a small child in blue footsie pajamas holding a purple crayon. His scribbles, in a saturated medium purple, are scrawled all over the cover.
January 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Made my aunt a @pittsburghpenguins.bsky.social penguin from polymer clay for Christmas.
Polymer clay model of a black and white cartoonish penguin with a yellow beak and feet. Its eyes are solid black with expressive eyebrows giving it a happy expression. Black skates with white laces and silver blades hang around its neck. It's mounted on a wooden disc, painted black with a yellow stripe around its circumference.
January 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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12/20
Cover for the book "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle. Red cover w dark red spine. Reader's Digest logo and the words, "Best loved books for young readers" are at the top in gold. Connected to the logo is a thin gold line that encapsulates the title, author name, and image. The title is all caps and both title and author are in white. A rectangular painting of three archers at a medieval archery contest is pictured below. Two wait in line behind the third, who is furthest away from our perspective and is in the process of drawing a bow. He is dressed in blue and wears a pointed cap. The middle archer is dressed in scarlet and the final archer nearest us, w red hair, is dressed in green. An archery target is visible down the way, between the green man's legs, ornate audience stands are visible to the right and between the two furthest figures in the background, and a blue sky w white clouds dominated the top background of the image.
January 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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11/20
Cover of the book "The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum. Cover is green maybe, faded black. Author name bold in white on top. Title hollow text in white outline on bottom. Pictures a seashell with a spike driven through it between. This particular cover is well worn.
January 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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10/20
Cover of the book "Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice. Gold cover with white gothic text, outlined in red. The word "Vampire" is black, outlined in red. Author name follows title with the gold words in black outlined in between reading "A Novel by."
January 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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9/20
Cover for the book version of "The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri and translated by John Ciardi. Signet Classic publisher logo appears on the top in gold. Title and author name appear in white text with contrasting font weight and kerning, both in black boxes with white borders, near the top and bottom respectively. Translator's name appears beneath the author's name box. The image that occupies the middle is an artistic rendition of the main characters draped in what appear to be white robes entering through a rocky portal with spires and hills beyond. There is script above the opening. Behind the author, title, and images boxes, to the left side of the cover, there are bright orange flames against a black backdrop.
December 30, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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8/20
Cover of the book "A Wizard in Absentia" by Christopher Stasheff. Author's name in white at the top, Title in gold immediately below. A purple diamond call out box w orange accents reads, "Over one million warlock books in print!" Bottom text reads, "The warlock's son takes off! A new adventure is launched..." Some prices are listed below that, including 5.99 in Canada and 4.99 in the US. The image is of an older woman in a medieval pink and Orange dress with a black dog watching a man also in medieval dress (white long sleeves shirt, reddish tunic, black pants, high black boots). He is standing in a beam of yellow light that appears to emanate from the UFO flying above. They are all standing on a decorative outdoor staircase landing against a backdrop of mountains and blue sky
December 29, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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7/20
Cover of the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. Bottom two-thirds of the cover: white stripe with the words "Penguin Classics" in a reddish orange with a penguin logo between the two words in black followed by all black with the author name and title in white text separated by a reddish orange line. The author name is bolded. The image is of an old fortification on a cliff side with a shoreline below and blue cloudy skies in the background. Men with ropes pull sailing vessels ashore.
December 28, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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6/20
Cover of the book "The Ruins of Gorlan" by John Flanagan. Top text reads, "Ranger's Apprentice." Bottom text is the title, followed by "International Bestselling Author," followed by the author's name. All text except the bestselling author line (which is in white) is in gold. The image displays a hooded archer drawing a bow with a gold arrow knocked. The archer, wearing a quiver full of arrows on their back, is in shadow. The bow and arrow are in the light. A misty forest, cast in the overall bluish hue of the cover, occupies the background.
December 28, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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5/20
Cover of the book "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. The bottom third of the cover is a simple black background with white text showing the title in bold, the author's name in italics and smaller font, and a white line separating the two. A bold white line separates the bottom part of the cover from the image which occupies the top two-thirds. This shows a knight clad in armor astride a barded brown horse in the foreground and a windmill among some other buildings in the background, beyond a rolling green pasture. Beyond all that and the horizon line is a blue sky filled with white and gray clouds.
December 27, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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4/20
Cover of the book "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton. Top text reads "#1 New York Times Bestselling Author" and is followed by the author's name. Beneath that, to the left, is a quote from Jayne Ann Krentz that reads, "A heady mix of romance and horror." Framed at the bottom is the title of the book, under which reads, "An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel." The image is of a person's midsection, showing the belly button, with a dead rose lying against the flesh. Two of the petals have fallen off and lie further down on the stomach. The body is slanted at an angle, such that it occupies, diagonally, the bottom two-thirds of the cover, leaving the author's name in white text on the dark background and the title in black text on the lighter foregground. The skin is cast in a light purple color against a background of dark purple, almost black. The dead flower is a sickly greenish color.
December 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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3/20
Cover of "The Book of Three," written by Lloyd Alexander. The cover is a sky blue color with a portrait image centered in the bottom 3/5 of the cover. The text at the top reads "A Dell Yearling Book" and contains a small logo of a pink horse between the words Dell and Yearling. The Author's name in white is framed with an ornate dark pink frame and sits atop the image. The Title in black sits on a yellow rectangular background and pushes down into the center top of the image. The image shows a boy and a girl in medieval dress (he with dark hair, a headband, a green tunic in various shades, and wielding a sword and she with fiery orange hair, a circlet on her forehead, in a pink dress with ornate sleeves and collar, a large sword strapped to her back, and holding a glowing yellow orb. A disgruntled looking pig walks between them. Behind them, there is the specter of a skeletal figure in a flowing cloak, chainmail armor, and a king's crown sprouting antlers. Behind the specter, a copse of conifer trees against a yellow and orange sky.
December 24, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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2/20
Cover of the book "A Wizard of Earthsea," written by Ursula K. Le Guin. Text at the top reads "Earthsea" and that is followed immediately by the title. A brown falcon in flight is depicted in the middle foreground. The background is a simple light purple to indigo shift indicative of an oceanic horizon line. A lighter circle of gray appears top center behind the "Earthsea" text, indicative of a moon. The bottom text reads, "With a new afterword from the author" and this is followed immediately by the author's name.
December 24, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Book cover of Deathstalker, written by Simon R. Green and published by Roc Books in 1995. Beneath the author's name is text that reads, "bestselling author of Shadows Fall." Bottom text reads, "Unjustly branded an outlaw, Owen Deathstalker summons the warrior's heritage in the heart of rebel space." Cover depicts a young man in the foreground with short blonde hair wearing blue, white, and black aristocratic dress. He is armed with a pistol and a dueling sword at his hips. In the background, across an ornate floor, two figures appear to face off against one another in combat. One is heavily armored and wielding a sword while the other is wearing black clothing with heavy fur accents at the hands and feet and is wielding a sword and pistol.
December 23, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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Continuing to learn polymer clay, I made my first attempt at a full size figure and fantasy armor with my Candlebright Knight here. The anatomy was just for practice, in the end, I coulda put the armor on a Gumby.
A 7 inch tall polymer clay figure dressed as a fantasy knight with a pumpkin head. The layered armor with spiked pauldrons is silver with gold highlights. The underclothing is red with a decorative red and gold cloth hanging between the legs. The orange pumpkin head has bright yellow painted cut out eyes and mouth in the style of a jack o lantern and has dark green leaves sprouting from it brown stem. The figure carries a cartoonishly large lance, with white cloth wrapped decoratively around its brown handle.
December 9, 2024 at 4:36 AM