Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Wikipedia says that a geometric pattern is "a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated like a wallpaper design". While you can use any geometric element for this prompt, your cover should reflect the consistency of a geometric design!

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Suggestions:
If you're having trouble figuring out what constitutes a geometric pattern, check out this article to get a better idea of what geometric patterns look like.

Comb through your TBR to find covers that fit the bill, or check out these two listopias for more ideas!

Listopia: Book Covers with Geometric Patterns

ATY Group Listopia

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Optional Questions
1. What are you reading for this category?
2. Why did you choose this book?

The first option on the listopia list sounds like a total mind game, going with that one, LOL

I’m having a tough time with this one. Honour by Elif Shafak sounds great but the copy my library has doesn’t seem to be the one who the beautiful geometric cover. I may go with How the Zebra got its stripes since I find evolutionary biology fascinating. Again my library doesn’t have the best cover but if I stretched the point I could make it work. So do I wait an hope a new release I want to read has a geometric cover or read a book I want even if the edition I end up with doesn’t have a cover that meets the prompt?

Serendipity, since I'm a big library reader as well, I was thinking I would just pick books that I saved on my TBR that had the proper covers, even if the one I get from the library is not the same cover. I feel like it will save me some headache lol. Either that, or I'll just go hunting at the library for a cover that fits.

I’m considering , and .

The original wording of the prompt (and examples given by the suggester) said that we can use a repeated title as a pattern (poll 11, message 25). Is that still true? Because the book I had planned was a repeated title.

I am planning on for this week.

Top choice: The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Other options:
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Claudius the God by Robert Graves

I think that I'm going with Recursion.

I thought I'd have more choices on my physical/Kindle TBR shelves than this (and some of these are a bit of a stretch...)

Maybe

Would this work?

The Alchemist

Kara wrote: "Would this work?

The Alchemist "

Sure, why not?

Angie, I've been more a stickler for this prompt and am limiting it only to geographic designs (repeated circles, triangles, squares, lines, etc.), so I wouldn't personally count a repeated title as a geographic pattern. That is your call, of course, though, and you can be as liberal or strict on this prompt as you'd like to be!

I've got a few to consider

I think I will be going with

I'm thinking about The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon.

I read for this. Excellent book!

I read

It's my book club book this month and I needed a place to put it! Plus, I love the geometric patterning in Islamic art and architecture, as pictured on the cover.

The pattern is hard to see but it is there

I read The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. The partition has an Islamic geometric pattern on it.

What about this? I feel like it is borderline, but it feels abstractly geometric to me?

Emma wrote: "What about this? I feel like it is borderline, but it feels abstractly geometric to me? "

I don't know, when I look at a bigger picture of the cover, it looks like mostly organic shapes, like fish. Your call.

1. What are you reading for this category?
When it's Time for Leaving by Ang Pompano
2. Why did you choose this book?
I had won this on Goodreads and it fit this prompt nicely.

My choices from my TBR List

I'm reading the highly controversial new novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Love the cover, but I didn't pick it for that. The story is about the plight of an undocumented Mexican migrant worker who crosses the border into the US. Since its publication, the gringa author has faced a storm of criticism because of the novel's stereotypical depictions of Mexican life.

1. What are you reading for this category?
Snapshot by Stephen Edger


2. Why did you choose this book?
I am trying to only read books on my shelves this year and this one fit the category!

1. What are you reading for this category?
Evil Has A Name: The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation

2. Why did you choose this book?
I am interested in the subject and find the cover very appealing. This book was very interesting. I enjoyed the history of the case and the science behind the process. Very informative.

I'm going to be a bit of a geek (more so than usual, at any rate) and read Flatland, largely because I own it and have too many books on my request list at the library. Even though it's a choice of convenience more than anything else right now, I am looking forward to it. It's been on my TBR list for quite a while.

A couple of options I'm considering from my physical TBR:

I read with all those beautiful hexagons in the honeycomb. The cover is gorgeous, the book... well, self-insertion fanfiction that takes out all the things that made all the original Holmes stories good reading. 2/5 for the book but 5/5 for the cover.

I read The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson

I was thinking about using Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore for this one. I'm not sure if it works though.

1)The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
2)It was on my tbr and has stripes

I will read (actually listen to) A Brightness Long Ago . This author writes complex fantasies in beautiful prose that sounds great read aloud. The repeated patterns seem to actually be bird silhouettes.

1. What are you reading for this category?

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore



2. Why did you choose this book?

It was on my TBR and I wanted to read it! As you can tell from my earlier post, I wasn't 100% on using it for this prompt, but it's got a pattern of shapes so I'm counting it.

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Heresy of Dr Dee by Phil Rickman

Why did you choose this book?
I read the first book in this duology for another prompt and this second book fitted this prompt

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. Why did you choose this book?
I wanted to read after it was nominated to the Goodreads Choice Awards.

I read Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott for this task. The cover contains prominent line segments which ghost into sides and edges of other geometrical figures.

I read The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff. I got this book from a friend about a year ago and it fit this category.

I used The Circle for this one. I actually was using for a prompt for a different challenge and found that it worked perfectly for this one!

1. What are you reading for this category?


2. Why did you choose this book?
Geometric pattern in the waffle hearts, was the first one on my goodreads TBR, I seen that would work.

I'm currently reading Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai. Until my copy arrived I hadn't realised the front cover has a geometric pattern, this the is Vintage edition from Penguin Random House

I hadn't got any suitable book covers on my TBR list so when this was chosen for our June read by my bookclub it fitted this prompt perfectly.

I searched for an audiobook to listen to and noticed a cover with geometric patterns and decided to listen to it. The book was better than I thought, so I can recommend it to anyone who speaks Finnish.

1. What are you reading for this category? by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2. Why did you choose this book? Library hold came in and realized the cover fit the prompt

1. I read by Samanta Schweblin.

2. Was going to read this for the book published in 2020 prompt, since it was on several lists of most anticipated books of the year. However, turns out that it was in fact published in 2018, but the translation into English was published this year. Fortunately the titular little eyes were somewhat abstractly rendered on the cover in a repeating pattern of circles.

I read [[book:DEV1AT3|40177770] by Jay Kristoff.

It's got hexagons on the cover so that seems fit for the geometric pattern bit. And I chose this book because it's the second book of a super bomb trilogy and no way in hell I was missing on it.

I went with Eggshells for this. Between the two main covers I feel it has a very methodical geometric feel to it, even though it's not quite as on the nose as others. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

This book has a very modern James Joyce's Dubliners to it, so if you like that character heavy feel to a book, I highly recommend it! If you have issues with meandering awkward social situations, you might want to skip.

1. What are you reading for this category? Recursion
2. Why did you choose this book? I've been wanting to read this book and it fits in this category. I looked up the figure 8 and apparently the geometric term for it is Lemniscate. You learn something new everyday I guess. All the Blake Crouch books I've read so far I've loved. So far this one is on track also. I just started tonight and I've already read 100 pages which is not normal for me on a week night.