You walk into Barnes & Noble, a reader's heaven filled with countless numbers of glorious books. Unless you walk in there on a mission to research a book that you've already heard of, you do what most people do, browse. You walk the isles, perusing the shelves for hours and hours, until suddenly, something catches your eye. There, sitting on a shelf amongst hundreds of books, is a book with one of the most beautiful covers you've ever seen. Before you even think of finding out if it's worth reading, you pick it up.
That
very thing happened to me with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
Children by Ransom Riggs. Something about the cover intrigued me,
casting a spell which I was in no hurry to break. Before I read the
summary, checked the reviews or even new anything about the author, I'd
made up my mind that I wasn't going home without that book. Lucky for me
the book was just as amazing as its cover. Of course buying a book only
for its cover is also a huge risk seeing as I've purchased a number of
terribly written books that just happened to have beautiful covers (I've
never been a fan of Alice in Wonderland, but the cover design on a
particular edition was so grand that I just had to have it in my
collection.)
Moral
to the story? I don't really know. But if there are people like me,
people who prefer the grand and exquisite over the ordinary and plain,
people who always imagine things to be more extraordinary than they
actually are, then we will definitely be on the lookout for beautifully
designed books.
