It's officially spring! Even though it doesn't quite feel like spring here yet, I thought I'd try to get myself into the mood by finding book covers that make me think of spring. I searched through my books to find the covers that most reminded me of spring because I thought that, by making this post the first of what I hope to be many to come, I could find some sort of blogging inspiration.
While these aren't necessarily books I'll read this spring--or even books that are remotely about spring--I like their covers and think they have a nice spring-y feel to them. So, here they are!
- The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith*
- The Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats
- Please Look after Mom, Kyung-sook Shin
- The Bostonians, Henry James
- Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, W.B. Yeats
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery*
- The Secret Countess, Eva Ibbotson
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark*
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Five Plays, Anton Chekhov
- The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Story of the Stone, Vol. 1, Cao Xueqin
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett*
*These are the ones I've read.
