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This week's topic is:
Recent Read
Since none of the books I'm currently reading have more than one edition of the cover, I decided to take a look at some recent reads for inspiration. Even though I didn't end up liking this book quite as much as I'd hoped to, I still think Osamu Dazai is a great author and his books have a nice variety of editions, so I've decided to feature No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, which I read last month. There is a pretty large variety of cover editions for this one, so let's take a look at them!
2001 US Paperback | 1958 US Paperback | 2009 Italian
2015 Polish | 2015 Turkish | 2017 Arabic
2015 Portuguese | 2020 Indonesian | 2017 Japanese
2006 Japanese | 2020 Polish | 2015 German
2020 Persian | 2022 Serbian | 2021 Romanian
2020 Turkish | 2020 Ukrainian | 2020 Indonesian
My choice(s):
I'm really not sure I could make a final choice from these. I am partial to the 2001 US paperback edition I read, though I also really like the Portuguese, Arabic, and 2006 Japanese editions. These all have something really neat about them, though I am extremely unsure what's going on with that 2020 Indonesian cover. Don't let it fool you, this is not a book that reflect whatever is happening there, haha.
