Beauty soothes (my sinuses)

I have a brutal head cold today, so, rather than posting the book review that I promised on our newsletter (trust me, nobody wants to see me edit things while under the influence of cold medicine), I'm just going to settle for posting three of the book covers that have been consistently catching my eye recently:

This one (from Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian) speaks to my Josef Lada-loving Czech heritage:


This one (a novel written by a series of authors, including Wordcandy favorites Nick Hornby and Eoin Colfer) is even cooler in person:


And this one is just plain awesome. I have no idea how good the book is, but I love the cover art and title:


With that, I'm going back to bed.