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A Library of Misremembered Books
A Library of Misremembered Books: When We're Searching for a Book but Have Forgotten the Title | Marina Luz
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How do you find a book when you can't recall the title...or the author? This homage to a common reader's dilemma is a gift the booklover in your life won't soon forget. Readers know all too well the comedy and tragedy of forgetting the name of a must-find book. Inspired by this torturous predicament, artist Marina Luz creates paintings of books based on the descriptions we use when we can't remember their titlesmining Internet book-search forums for the quirky, vague, and often hilarious language we come up with in these moments. This volume collects dozens of these imaginary books into a library all their own: Titles like "Cat, Possibly Named Henry," "It Was All a Dream," or "Something-Something, Beverly Hills" inspire dreaming up their contents, often as entertaining as trying to guess the real book behind them. A celebration of book love unlike any other, this petite book is a clever gift for bibliophiles that will spark knowing smiles. PERFECT GIFT FOR BOOKLOVERS: The collection will spark recognition for everyone who has encountered this phenomenon (so, virtually every reader) and especially those who have worked in a bookstore, who know intimately well how often this dilemma arises. This impulse-priced delight is an excellent way to make book-loving friends feel seen. A UNIQUE APPRECIATION OF BOOK LOVE: This is a loving tribute to the wonderful and bizarre ways that books leave impressions on our souls, if not always perfectly in our memories. It's a fun and fresh appreciation of bibliophilia that still delivers long after the first read. Perfect for: Bibliophiles Booksellers People seeking gifts for the booklovers in their life
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KathyWheeler
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As a librarian, I‘ve gotten my fair share of “The cover was red” and “I heard about it on NPR” questions. Sometimes you can help; sometimes you can‘t. I just really liked the Sorry I Threw It Out cover. Since this is just pictures, except for the introduction, I really wish the book had been longer.

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KathyWheeler
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I would absolutely read A Ghost, a Mountain , a Dynamite Truck if it existed!

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KathyWheeler
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Thanks to @Soubhiville posting about this book, my need for something short and bookish, and Hoopla having it, I‘m lying back in bed reading this. It was a long day today.

Soubhiville I hope it makes you chuckle. Sleep well! 2y
KathyWheeler @Soubhiville It did. Thanks for posting about it. 😊 2y
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Soubhiville
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I love hearing librarian and bookseller stories of customers coming in looking for books of which they remember neither title or author. The one I hear the most is “it has a blue cover.”

This entire tiny book is drawings of those books, and the author‘s imagining of their covers. I only know for certain what one of them is, and it‘s pictured here. Do you recognize it?

If you have one of these stories I‘d love to hear it! 📚🤷‍♀️📘

Soubhiville “Victorian Prostitute with Dry Skin” is The Crimson Petal and the White. 2y
vivastory I haven't read it but I'm guessing 2y
Soubhiville @vivastory yep! I loved that one. 2y
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ChuckMuck
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This book made me chuckle quite a bit 😁