Every week, Danielle (from Danielle’s Book Blog) and Cátia (from TheGirlWhoReadTooMuch) host a feature called Book Traveling Thursdays on Goodreads. They give you a topic each Thursday and you choose a book that you think fits. Then comes the fun part: a cover showdown! You post the original cover, the cover from your country (which I won’t be doing because the books aren’t published here), and then your favorite and least favorite cover from any edition around the world.
This week’s topic is a book that makes me think of the holidays. As I celebrate Christmas, a classic for me during this time of the year is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I think it’s a heartwarming tale and I remember enjoying the writing a lot. Also, it’s a very quick read, so you can easily make reading it on Christmas day a tradition. Let’s check its covers out!
ORIGINAL COVER
This is the first edition from England. It’s a classic cover and it looks really beautiful, so I love it.
FAVORITE COVERS
On the left is a cover from Portugal and on the right one from the United States. They are similar, as they show the characters’ silhouettes, and I’m always a big fan of this style of cover. I’m particularly in love with the colors from the one from Portugal and how christmassy the US edition looks.
LEAST FAVORITE COVERS
From left to right: English, Czech, Brazilian, and Swedish. I think these all look so grim and creepy. I don’t understand how they are supposed to represent the story when they look that scary, especially the last one! It makes no sense and I’m honestly a bit terrified of it.
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WHOA, that Swedish cover is SCARY. What is that even supposed to represent in the story??!?!?! I think the design from Portugal is my favorite– I love the colors!
This is one of my favorite books to read around this time of year, as is anything a little magical and mysterious. One year I read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern on Christmas Eve and it was perfect! It’s not actually a Christmas book, but it nevertheless gives you that enchanted feeling that Christmas often does.
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Hahaha, I have no idea, it makes no sense. I don’t know why they went with that cover, but I’d love to know the reasoning behind it!
The Night Circus? Interesting! I haven’t read it, but understand that enchanted christmassy feeling. I’ll keep it in mind for next Christmas 😀
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Wow, that Swedish one is freaky! I guess they’re really playing up the ghost part, but the odd thing is that the title has been changed to A Christmas Saga. Which I guess kind of works? The Saga of Scrooge? If they’d stuck with the carol theme, it would have been “En julsång.”
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Exactly, but they went for a very weird kind of ghost! I was wondering what it meant, so thank you for pointing it out. Do you speak Swedish?
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I speak Danish, which is practically the same thing but not quite. Norwegian is easier for me to understand than Swedish, which is weird stuff. In Danish it would be “julesang” so you can see, pretty similar.
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Oh, cool! That’s so interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Danish, so I can’t help but pronounce it in German 🤔
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It’s a bit like German if you swallow half the consonants. Danish is incredibly vowely.
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Hmm, I can sort of imagine it. I’ll look it up on YouTube to hear people speaking it!
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Wow, those covers are really creepy, where’s the Christmas spirit? haha
The Portuguese cover is beautiful, tho ❤
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Yeah, I get more of a Halloween spirit from them haha.
Yes, I’m in love with it, too 🙂
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My favorite books to read this time of year are The Night Before Christmas, The Nutcracker and The Polar Express.
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I’ve seen the films and ballet adaptations, but never read the books. I’d especially love to read The Nutcracker, because I can’t remember much of it now.
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I haven’t read this one but I keep on seeing this everywhere, is this considered a classic now? Anyway, your least favorite covers are really weird looking, it seems like they don’t relate to the book, if it were me, I would also list them on my least faves haha
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Yes, it is definitely a classic 🙂 It’s from 1843 and it has many many modern adaptations, like a Mickey Mouse one, a film with Jim Carrey, another one with Patrick Stewart, even a romantic comedy starring Matthew McConaughey, and a Muppets’ film. I’m sure you know the story of the three ghosts (past, present, and future).
Right? They are so weird, I’m glad you relate 😉
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Great pick! I love this book so much, I don’t even know how many times I’ve read it. That Swedish cover though…holy crap. Is that maybe supposed to be the Ghost of Christmas Past?
For myself, today I’m reading Hercule Poirot’s Christmas…tomorrow I’m planning on a re-read of A Christmas Carol!
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That’s what I thought, but what a weird way to represent it haha. That’s so cool! I remember enjoying that one by Agatha Christie a long time ago, but I can’t remember anything else about it🙈
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One I really enjoyed on my hoilday in South Africa was ‘I am travelling alone’ – Great crime novel set in Norway…
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Thanks for the rec 😉
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