[2022] Poll 14 Results

[Alicia]

Rachel wrote: "I'm a little confused about the handwriting prompt now. I originally interpreted handwriting as cursive writing, but judging by some of the comments and examples on the list, I don't think that's w..."

I think you can really interpret it how you see it best. For me, I view books like One of Us Is Lying to count because it's supposed to be like someone writing on a mirror or a bathroom stall (sorry for the crudeness of that). Or same with the word "die" in Dorothy Must Die. To me, those look like actual handwriting.

Others, where it's just cursive or a non-standard font like The Office of Historical Corrections or Beartown to me just seem like different fonts. Not so much handwriting. But I also understand how people may perceive that differently for themselves.

[Rachel]

Too early in the year for me to make any real plans yet, but I'm thinking I'm going to use this one for handwriting on the cover:

[Katie]

Alicia wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I'm a little confused about the handwriting prompt now. I originally interpreted handwriting as cursive writing, but judging by some of the comments and examples on the list, I don't..."

Wow that's kind of funny. I totally disagree about The Office of Historical Corrections. The writing on the cover (not the title, clearly) looks to me exactly like if someone hand-wrote corrections in pencil on it (the letters are idiosyncratic, as someone else put it).
I agree that Beartown (and all Backman's books, really) clearly uses a specific font, which I would not count. But if the letters look as if someone had to have hand-written them (e.g. all of the letters look unique and varied like most handwriting does), then it definitely counts in my mind.

I'm curious to see what people pick for this. I definitely feel like I have high standards for this one, so the disagreement about Evans's book surprised me.

[Ellie]

Katie wrote: "Wow that's kind of funny. I totally disagree about The Office of Historical Corrections. The writing on the cover (not the title, clearly) looks to me exactly like if someone hand-wrote corrections in pencil on it (the letters are idiosyncratic, as someone else put it)...."

I am not familiar with that book, so I can see that at first glance on a listopia I might think it doesn't fit. But on closer examination I would agree, the smaller text is clearly meant to be handwriting.

[Hilde]

The title on this book is clearly hand-written on the coffee mug: When Dimple Met Rishi

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

That was a really cute book, too, Hilde. I enjoyed it.

[Hilde]

Emily wrote: "That was a really cute book, too, Hilde. I enjoyed it."

Great, good to know:) I have it on Audible, bought on a sale a while back.

[Alicia]

My bad, I didn't have my glasses on so I did not see the fainter handwriting on The Office of Historical Corrections. All I saw was the title and was confused.

[Sunny]

I voted for all 3 winners.

When I saw handwriting I immediately thought of cursive and stated taking a closer look at book covers on my shelves at home to see if I had any that fit what I consider to fit the image I had in mind. I only found 1

Some of Fannie Flagg's titles have the fancy looking font that mimics handwriting. Effie Leland Wilder's books also have cursive type fonts.

[Katie]

Alicia wrote: "My bad, I didn't have my glasses on so I did not see the fainter handwriting on The Office of Historical Corrections. All I saw was the title and was confused."

It is very hard to see with the preview on Goodreads. I didn't see it at first either and thought someone was suggesting it for the highlighting(?). Glad to feel a little less crazy now at least. :)

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Katie wrote: "Alicia wrote: "My bad, I didn't have my glasses on so I did not see the fainter handwriting on The Office of Historical Corrections. All I saw was the title and was confused."

It i..."

Don't feel bad, I have actually owned and read the book and I didn't see the penciled-in handwriting!

[Irene]

For the first time in 2 years of voting, all of my upvote came out on top! So excited about all 3 of them, and can't wait to comb through my TBR.

And regarding the handwriting prompt, I agree with Alicia that if the font is supposed to resemble handwriting, then I would count it. Since in context, it is "handwriting on the cover". So I would count The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society because the title is on a stamped envelope and is therefore supposed to look like a handwritten letter, even though it's just a cursive font:

I'd count Dear Martin for the same reason (the title if from his journal entries), although on second glance, it actually is real cursive and not a font since the repeat letters in the title are different:


I think someone mentioned this before, but any Agatha Christie book with her signature on the cover could count since a signature is a part of someone's handwriting.