TIOLI - October 2021 - Winged things! :D

Hi everyone!

Please share your book covers of winged things on this thread which is associated with Challenge #1 of the Take It or Leave It challenge for October, 2021. The challenge is to read a book that pictures something with wings on its cover. Let's see what you picked! :D

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Here's my book! It's Valley of Strength by Shulamit Lapid, an Israeli author who is the mother of the current Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel. Anyway, I'm not sure what the bird in the picture is. Does anyone have any idea?

Here is the cover for In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez:

This is the cover for Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton:

And the cover of The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat:

Oooh! I love all these covers so far!

The Bees by Laline Paull

This is my month for "winged things"! Here is Bird Box by Josh Malerman:

Two books planned for this challenge Het land der zieners by Julian May and Darwin, Wallace en de anderen by Alexander Reeuwijk
 

Sorry, I have no idea how to post a cover. My copy of The Wind's Twelve Quarters has a gryphon looking thing on it.

>10 alcottacre:



Here's your picture, Stasia!

..and here's how to do it next time:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/129158#3125117

>11 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline. Any idea what you call that thing? I am sure I will know once I read the book :)

>12 alcottacre: It’s a griffin. I only knew that because I remembered that someone else also is using a griffin for this challenge.

>12 alcottacre: Oops! I was wrong. No one else but you is using that creature. It’s also spelled gryphon. I don’t know how I knew that. I probably read it somewhere because prior to now, I could not have accurately defined that word. Ha!

ETA: I see that YOU mentioned it above!

>13 SqueakyChu: >14 SqueakyChu: Well, now we both know! :)

>15 alcottacre:. LOL!

OK, here's another weird one for you, Madeline. I am adding All the Windwracked Stars by Elizabeth Bear to the challenge. It has a 2-headed deer thingy with wings on the cover. Got a name for it? It looks like in the book it is called a valraven. I think that is a made up name, but not being familiar with every kind of mythology, I am not sure.



Well, I give up. I have tried copying the cover from LT and Amazon in Chrome and it will not show up for me.

>17 alcottacre: Stasia, you're so funny! Call it what you want. I posted a picture of it for you. I see the wings! LOL

>18 SqueakyChu: The picture is available on both Amazon and here on LT, but I cannot seem to get it to show up for some reason despite using Tad's instructions.

When you find it, could you show me the code so that I can see what I am doing wrong? Thank you!

I use this code:

(Left-Pointing Angle Bracket)IMG SRC=""(Right-Pointing Angle Bracket)

I copy the image address (after right-clicking on the picture) and paste the image address between the quotation marks.

(Left-Pointing Angle Bracket) is over the comma on your keyboard.
(Right-Pointing Angle Bracket) is over the period on your keyboard.

>20 SqueakyChu: Well, that is what I tried. I am using Chrome and it said "copy image address," which is what I attempted to do, so I have no idea why it did not work. Ah, well.

>21 alcottacre: I use Chrome also so I have no
idea why it’s not working for you.

>22 SqueakyChu: Technology hates me. Seriously.

>17 alcottacre: If I open the picture in a new tab, I get the Amazone page of the book, Stasia. So it looks like you copied the URL (web page adress: https://www.amazon.com/All-Windwracked-Stars-Edda-Burdens/dp/B077PMLMJC/ref=sr_1... instead of the image.

For copying the image adress, using Chrome, I get: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61NhlsIIIcL.jpg, so your code should be:
<IMG HEIGHT="300" SRC="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61NhlsIIIcL.jpg">

Then it should look like:

>23 alcottacre: LOL!

>24 FAMeulstee: Thanks, Anita! I'm not a big fan of technology. Usually I wait for my techie son to do stuff for me. Seriously. I only do what I have to do...and mostly I HAVE TO keep up with TIOLI. LOL!

>24 FAMeulstee: When I try to copy the image address, I get. . .nothing. I have no idea where it is copied to. I can hit the button all I want, but it never shows me where it copies the picture to, so when I paste it, I have no idea what it is pasting from. I give up on copying pictures.

Madeline, you will have to do them from here on out, lol.

I've downloaded Milk and Honey, collected poems by Rupi Kaur. It has a couple of Bees on the cover.

Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman (Completed)