ridic/baller book jacket photos

step two in judging a book by its cover is the inside jacket flap author photos. for me, this is the most important step and one that i constantly revisit while reading. my book club is all too familiar with my position on the jonathan lethem far-too-high-up-to-be- at-all-natural-and/or-comfortable wall lean from you don't love me yet:



and the lilian jackson braun i-will-mug-you-for-those-glasses- and-write-my-own-sleuthcat-novels chinfist stare:


but, let's face it. the entire purpose of this post is the susan wittig albert strategically-placed-faux-garden-one-soft-focused-oval- cutout-from-olan-mills that my mother is reading at this very moment: