Great Roast Books
These just arrived this morning, and I just had to take a picture...
because they are gorgeous: textured covers, clear printing, thick paper and drawings of the authors on the back flaps. Obviously a great deal of loving care has gone into making these books and, as a result, they are little gems.
There is something exquisite and exciting about a small book. Maybe it is some reversion to childhood, and a vague memory of being given such a thing as a prize. They fit in the hand, and there is the promise that here is something that will be short and sweet and easily assimilated. As it says in this excerpt from the Sunday Telegraph...
('...handsome editions designed to be read during along lunch hour or a single train journey.')
It is a fusion of old world charm and today's lifestyle perhaps, a taste of a charmed, remembered time - and then we rush on.
because they are gorgeous: textured covers, clear printing, thick paper and drawings of the authors on the back flaps. Obviously a great deal of loving care has gone into making these books and, as a result, they are little gems.
There is something exquisite and exciting about a small book. Maybe it is some reversion to childhood, and a vague memory of being given such a thing as a prize. They fit in the hand, and there is the promise that here is something that will be short and sweet and easily assimilated. As it says in this excerpt from the Sunday Telegraph...
('...handsome editions designed to be read during along lunch hour or a single train journey.')It is a fusion of old world charm and today's lifestyle perhaps, a taste of a charmed, remembered time - and then we rush on.
posted by Clare Dudman at 8:55 am
6 Comments:
In my case, the joy of a small book is that it's not a coffee table sized history book designed to crush whoever tries to read it.
Ah yes, Stu, I know it well - feigning to be an innocent assembly of paper and card, but really a monstrous thing that has designs on your mind.
I've read about these in a few places. I think there should be more of these small books about. In the past a few publishers have done them, Picador come to mind. Little 99p tasters. I like to keep one in my bag all the time so if I'm ever stuck somewhere for a few minutes with nothing to read I can dip into it.
Yes, Jem, they're certainly great to have around - in case of emergency and otherwise.
These are gorgeous, and you're right about the small books: that's one of the attractions of the Lemony Snicket volumes. They're beautiful and small. I remember in school a fellow student (male) luxuriating in the attractions of a Greek Loeb. He might have used the word "delicious."
Yes, there's a really nice feel to them - even before you open the cover.
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