tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10284418.post-34707723881397200912008-03-14T21:29:00.000-07:002008-03-14T23:43:24.958-07:00In today's interview featured in <I>Shelf Awareness</i>, Felicia Sullivan describes a book she bought for the cover:<br /><br /><a href="http://http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312288018/bookmarketingupd"><img src="http://www.bookmarket.com/seriousgirls.jpg" border=2></a><br /><br />"<I>Serious Girls</I> by Maxine Swann. The image of two schoolgirls clutching hands, their legs submerged in a pond, their backs flat on anemic grass, their eyes gazing up at a bleached sky, a smattering of red on a uniform (blood?), haunted me. I remember browsing the New Releases section in my local bookstore, and I kept walking by <I>Serious Girls</i>, disturbed, curious. I didn't know anything about the book or the author, but on that particular day, I knew that I wanted to learn more about those two girls."<br /><br />I can see why the image transfixes her. Are they dead? Just relaxing on a hot summer's day? You really can't tell by the cover.<br /><br />An interesting use of negative space with a nearly blank white top half.<br /><br />Would you want to read this book? Does the cover sell you?John Kremerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16486115512048790419noreply@blogger.com