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#Bookface and #Corpuslibris: Be One With Book Cover

A round-up of fun, creative, and amusing pictures of #bookface and #copurslibris : the tags used for people morphing themselves into one with book covers.

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Jamie Canaves

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Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

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Sometimes the first thing I see when signing into one of my social media accounts is human garbage being, well, human garbage. Never a great way to start the day, but I refuse to let the smell of toxic garbage ruin my mood which is why I now automatically look up a fun hashtag to remind me there are a lot of people who are fun(ny), creative, and for the bonus-win book lovers.

Recently I’ve been enjoying #corpuslibris and #bookface : the tags used for people morphing themselves into one with a book cover. Some are really creative and some are people clearly born with the purpose of taking a picture with a specific book cover. And some aren’t even human…

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Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona (Artist)

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I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

https://www.instagram.com/p/BD0_YYYy9eU/

 

 

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFAYtycKqhM/

Barack Obama by Catherine Nichols

 

 

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Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks by Ronin Ro


The Accident by Linwood Barclay

Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang

Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEf-98gIit9/

How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan

 

Essence Maya Angelou: Her Phenomenal Life & Poetic Journey by Editors of Essence Magazine

 


The Way I feel by Janan Cain

 

I’m Not You by Ernest Hekkanen