If you're new here, why not subscribe to our email updates or follow us on Facebook? You can also add us to your Google Reader. Thanks for visiting!Since my last post on bookalikes a few weeks ago, Ive been keeping an eye out for covers that share similar themes or make use of the same sort of visual ideas, and Ive come across a...

Spending as much time as I do reading, writing and talking about books, its inevitable that Im going to see certain patterns and representations crop up over and over. Thats not just true of contentalthough expect to see a post on that shortlybut also of covers. Since my post several months back on dead girls in gowns on YA...

Earlier today I came across Eva Maria Staals Try the Morgue, the design of which reminded me of John Greens Looking for Alaska (review). I did a bit of browsing, and found that smoke spirals are a relatively popular design element. In general, the motif seems to be incorporated into otherwise simple designs; the colour palette is usually a pale...

A few months ago I reviewed two books, one after the other, that were completely different save for the fact that each featured a butterfly on the cover. Then, when doing some re-shelving a little while ago, I came across another couple of books whose cover designs featured butterflies quite prominently in their designs. I decided to go on a quick hunt to see...