"The 10 day challenge- to post a book cover that has been significant, meaningful, important to me without further commentary."
HOWEVER -- I will comment on my choices...!!
AND THERE ARE MORE.... maybe later.... Thanks for your considerations. Thanks, Sarah -- for the impetus.
SO:
First I posted:
And my comments were:
ok... here is one book... and there will be commentary since books have lots of words and so do I... AND - hey -- someone took one of my 10 -- The Man Who Planted Trees... wow! Anyway here is one with an image from Amazon since while I think I have a hardback copy I did read it on my Kindle:
AND
furthermore... The several chapters about the Bishop/Priest really impressed me as well as the war story about The Battle of Waterloo... And love, love, love... AH - Victor Hugo. I've got to read The Hunchback of Notre Dame sometime.... soon.
AND THEN.... someone posted they liked the book: The Testament by Elie Wiesel... (W)RIGHT-ON. Yes a true favorite of mine which didn't come to mind on this challenge since I wend to a different area of my book. SO many by Wiesel are wonderful, of course!
I TOOK PICTURES OF THE FOLLOWING COVERS.... while at my bookshelves.
He, she and it... is a book with two Golem stories (a Golem is being created mystically from clay to protect the Jewish community. He is considered to be an early version of Frankentein). This telling has two parallel story-lines - one the old Golem story from 16th Century Prague and then there is a fulture/sci-fi story about a robot. And there is LOVE.
Lost Horizon was also made into movies (old and new... good and maybe not so good). It was sort of one introduction for me to the world of Eastern Philosophy. A feel good story! And there is LOVE.
Mordecai of Monterey caught my eye because of its seemingly Jewish title character. It is an "art" book, I think.... and is about a man who has the opposite of paranoia... and what happens to him and his friends. Odd. Not a lot of love in this one.
This book... Unbearable ,,,,,, is very much about LOVE and sex and the sensual and POLITICS and I liked the movie, too (the author did not like the movie). And there is a hat.
The Man who planted trees came out first as a story titled: "The man who planted hope and harvested happiness". Enough said. No love... but compassion.
Lots of love in Stranger...free hippie love... and more. Sci-fi... one of my passions.
Escape from freedom is a VERY important book about how we are and are not as free as we might be. Published in 1941 it is, according to wikipedia, sometimes titled: Fear of Freedom. Read it
Uncomfortable... is a real way to be and live and learn and grow. It was one of the first books I came across when I was connecting to Buddhism. The author has written many helpful books. I also read books by Thích Nhất Hạnh.
AND 100 Years of Solitude seems missing from my shelves AND I do not have a hardback copy... Need to get one. Wonderful book -- for me the MAGICAL REALISM main deal. On the subject of "magical realism -- there are the stories by Jorge Luis Borges. Wonderful stories magical, mystical stories.
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