I like it! My mind immediately flashed on an old photo of a child running toward the camera in Hiroshima. Could be because I just finished a good book, "What Happened to Henry" by Sharon Pywell.
I look forward to your changes, although I kinda like the title in the font as it is. Very compelling to me. Love the poppy, that gives me chills of hopefulness.
This is very exciting!
Thank you! I may decide to stick with the original title layout once I see the alternative. I really like how the red of the poppy draws the eye in—I'm hoping it does an even better job of this once the cover is a few shades darker. How did you like, What Happened to Henry?
It was very very good. A bit lugubrious at the beginning, but then Pywell hits a very beautiful linguistic stride. Lots of Japanese thought in it, very intriguingly presented. A bit of imaginative time/thought travel, which I loved. I knew Sharon quite well way back in the day, when she often announced that she wanted to write The Great American novel, along the lines of Bonfire of the Vanities. We were both involved with a Japanese cooking school; she was married to someone in it, and I was an apprentice there.
Her book is nothing like Bonfire (thankfully) and was the first of four novels that she has written. I will def read the others, but they, unlike this first one published in 2006, are not in my local library.
Recommended reading for sure!
That sounds like a book worth picking up! It's always nice to have that kind of connection with the author. I just bought Conspirators' Hierarchy by Dr. John Coleman. I've only read excerpts so far but it looks really good and very rabbit-hole-ish (not that I need another one to dive down).
@carolkean is reading it right now, and she loves it!
I hope to start it soon. I have quite the queue ahead of me...there are currently seven books on my reading table. : )
I am familiar with that problem. I just went through a box of very old books, and put half a dozen on my bedside table.
We’re cut from the same cloth. 😂