This post is one of the challenges of the Book Blogger Love-a-thon hosted by Kate of Tales of Books and Bands and Alexa of Alexa Loves Books.
I love really creative book spine poetry, and it’s a challenge we’ve done at the library for National Poetry Month in the past. When trying to compose a poem with a stack of books from my personal library, I found I was severely lacking in verbs. Still, I managed to put together one with adult titles and one with young adult novels.
Death with Interruptions
The Plague
Give us a Kiss
José Saramago is one of my favorite authors (I wrote about my love for his long sentences here). I read my first Camus in college. Daniel Woodrell is fantastic and drinks whiskey and lives in the Ozarks and came for a week of events for Read Across Lawrence in 2012.
Pretty Monsters
Something Like Normal
Journey of Dreams
These are all books I haven’t read yet! I’m anxious to start this short story collection from Kelly Link. I loved Trish Doller’s Where the Stars Still Shine, but still haven’t read Something Like Normal. Marsha Pellegrino is a Hispanic author, and I like to read YA by Latino authors.
wrapped up in books 
Seriously, this is such a fun challenge! I love your poems because they seem to toe the line between peculiar and familiar — so well done!
I agree with Michelle! I like the first one, dark and twisted!
I’m going to suggest this activity to my son’s school of the older students.
That’s awesome. I’m going to try it:
The nightmare of reason
Waking the witch
Harvest of stones
The first is a bio of Franz Kafka. I have a couple of bios of him. I find him so interesting. His life reads much like his stories do. The second title is a dark fantasy book by Kelley Armstrong. The third book is a history of settlers to the Ottawa Valley here in Ontario….very rocky for farming.
Thanks for this fun post!
Haha, I love it, Maggie! It’s a great activity for schools :)
Haha I love how you included pretty monsters inside! That’s a book title I’ve never heard of :)
I don’t think I’ve ever read any Hispanic authors I’ll have to check her out. Nice poems!
I love the first one! Dark, and yet funny…funny probably because I find twisted stuff funny. :P