The Friday Face-Off: Glasses

The Friday Face-Off was created by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday by finding a book whose cover is based on the theme!

This week’s theme: “One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.” – A cover with glasses.

I had a tough time finding a book for this prompt, for some reason. But I finally did, and who better to highlight than one of the most famous glasses-wearing writers, Stephen King? On Writing is King’s memoir/writing manual that is honestly more memoir than advice on writing. I’m feeling “meh” about most of these, but at least a bunch show King wearing glasses, take a look:

Scribner 10th Anniversary edition 2010 | Scribner U.S. hardcover 2000 | Ukrainian edition 2017

Swedish edition 2006 | Spanish edition 2013 | Arabic edition 2019

Bulgarian edition 2016 | Persian edition 2016 | Portuguese edition 2020

I think the Persian edition is pretty clever, the way the type bars are incorporated into the bottom of the cover. But for overall effectiveness, I’m going with the Bulgarian edition. I love the typewriter and the creepy carpet from The Shining showing through the paint.

Which one do you like best?

Posted August 14, 2020 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 16 Comments

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16 responses to “The Friday Face-Off: Glasses

  1. My favourite is the Ukrainian 2017 edition – I love that pop of yellow. But all these covers are preferable to the utterly charmless offering I actually own, which has a blurry window on it for some reason:)).

  2. I agree, I also like the Bulgarian edition, though the Scribner 10th anniversary is the one I have. I really enjoyed that book, though it was different than I’d expected, as you said because a good half or more of it was memoir.

  3. Hi there! Sticking with the theme, I would say I like the Ukranian one the most. I love Stephen King (okay, maybe not all Stephen King books) and I haven’t read his writing manual. Should be quite interesting!

    I add the Friday Face-off to my weekly (sometimes fortnightly!) Friday post. Here’s a link: Weekend Book Friends

  4. Sarah

    I like the Persian cover- but I think I like the US Scribner edition best. Seems very anti-King lol.

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