Casing the Cover at CoKoCon 2021
This episode was recorded this year at the virtual CoKoCon 2021. For this episode Mary quizzed Jenn and our virtual audience on how well they know bad...
Casing the Cover
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Casing the Cover was born when two library rats started wondering just how misleading, misguided, and mystifying book covers could really be. Hosts Jenn and Mary adventure through weird cover art, absurd titles, and the downright confounding choices publishers make to sell books to try to determine what actually happens when you judge a book by it’s cover.
A Look at Celebrity Authors
The news just broke in the publishing world that James Paterson is teaming up with none other than music superstar Dolly Parton on a new book project....
The Case of The Librarian and the Spy
This week we take a look at The Librarian and the Spy, a good romantic thriller with an awful stock art cover and one incredibly problematic plot poin...
Of Multiverses and Immortals
Today we take a look at two different literary lives. Jenn introduces us to the perils of Immortality in the Invisible LIfe of Addie Larue by V.E. Sch...
Little Old Lady Who Done It
This week, Jenn introduces us to two devious little old ladies from the novels Before she was Helen by Caroline B Cooney, and Plow Over the Bones of t...
A Tale of Two Books That Aren't 1984
In this week's episode, Jenn presents to the podcast 1Q84 by Haruki Murakmi and The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. These two Japanese that seem to take ...
An Examination of 2021 Cover Trends
This week Jenn and Mary take a bit of a late look at book cover trends that are supposedly going to be everywhere in 2021. As we take a look at this a...
The Case of Murder Can Confuse your Chihuahua
In this episode Mary will dive into, and tear apart, one of the worst books she has read for this podcast. Though, when choosing a book with a title l...
Interrogating Judith Starkston
In this week's episode Jenn and Mary are joined by author Judith Starkston to talk about history, publishing, and her new book Of Kings and Griffins, ...
The Case of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
This week we review our first non-fiction book of the year, Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. This book gives us a lot to digest ...