Book Spine Poems
Chris Galvin has been posting a number of these quite inspired mashups on her site, and it finally inspired me to give it a shot. Oddly, I seem to be missing bunches of books. I know I used to have more, but what became of them I don’t know. Hopefully I’ll find them eventually. In the meantime, here’s a first attempt with what I could find:
The White Goddess,
The Daughter of Time
Child of Fire,
Flying to Nowhere
Thanks to Robert Graves, Josephine Tey, Harry Connolly, and John Fuller for lending their books’ titles.
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Love this! So glad you decided to give it a try.
Thanks, Chris
I just wish I knew where the rest of my books are, but I suppose it will force me to get creative with what I’ve got 
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The Great God Pan
Awake in the Dark
Dharma Lion
Dreaming while Awake
Tales of Ecstasy and Terror
Those are wonderful titles, thanks for joining in!
What a cool idea!
Ines of my Soul
Thunderstruck
Angel of Death
Isn’t it fun? Gets kind of addictive, I’m running around the house collecting books and rearranging them like Mad-Libs now
I like yours, kind of dark and ominous sounding, but so much mystery to it.
makes me want to go wander around a used bookstore – not that I ever STOP wanting to do that!
So many of my books are one-word titles that it was kind of tricky to come up with something that sounded like anything. Chris has more on her site with some great titles that really worked well, definitely check out her site.
I love how you did that. They look so regal on their spines. I just may reorganize a shelf or 2 inspired by that photograph. Well done Dame.
My books are so scattered around the house, lots just in boxes. I need bookcases, lots of bookcases!
Heee! i don’t have nearly enough books to do anything great, but I’m going to try anyway
(Don’t you hate it when they hide on you? Bloody books; far too independently-minded for their own good. And the digital ones are even worse, in case you’re wondering!)
Hahah
Now here’s something that would be difficult to do with ebooks. You could cull titles, but couldn’t do a group photo. Heh.
That is a rather nifty poem. Great stuff!
The days run away like wild horses over the hills
Poems of the masters
The essential crazy wisdom.
Thanks Skyraft! That’s a wonderful line, ‘wild horses over the hills.’
Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas,
Walking on Glass.
A Dirty Job,
The Truth.
Thank you – I’ll be here all week!
(Tom Robbins, Iain Banks, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett. Waaay too many of the dubiously-worthy books on my shelf start with “The”. Hmm.)
Those are good!
True, too many “The”‘s starting a sentence can kill the flow.