NB: This week, we�re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We�ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, and more. We hope...
NB: This week, we�re taking a look back at some of our favorite and our most popular pieces of writing this year. We�ve got a week of best-of posts to share, with reviews, cover snark, and more. We hope you enjoy revisiting our archives, and most of all, we wish you and yours a wonderful holiday and a happy new year � with all the very best of reading.
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Say hello to the top five Cover Snark posts of 2023! These are the most viewed Snark posts from last December to now! It�s such a joy to put these together and I hope you all get as much joy from reading them.
Let�s count them down!
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5. Apologies to Jake Gyllenhaal (July 10)
You know it�s going to be a good Cover Snark when we�re all trying to decide which famous actor or actress a model resembles. There are also wolves, lions, and nipples � oh my!
Best reader comment is from DiscoDollyDeb:
Because I�m an old lady AND a disco dolly, it will come as no surprise that �Jake� actually puts me in mind of 1970s era Barry Gibb of the BeeGees. I don�t know the model�s name, but he�s popping up on SBTB all the time recently because he�s also on the cover of Felice Stevens�s IN A NEW YORK MINUTE�which, while I know is being advertised on the site and you don�t want to buy the hand that feeds you, could easily qualify for its own cover snark entry since it looks like �Jake/Barry� is either showing off his underarms or overwhelmed by the odor emanating from his pits.
/Leaves the room, shaking it to �Staying Alive�
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4. What a Smarmy Face (October 9)
Many of us had such a strong reaction to one particular cover model�s face. Of course, it wouldn�t be a Cover Snark without a peek-a-boo nipple, right?
Best reader comment is from Kimberly:
My friend�s husband has what I call Resting Douche Face. I�ve never met him in person and I have no reason to think he�s anything but a good guy, but in every picture I�ve ever seen he looks like a half-tanked frat boy laughing at his own idiotic prank. Not quite the same expression as the JAL cover, but the exact same vibe.
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3. We Have Llamas (April 10)
RJ Blain�s wild urban fantasy novels make an appearance because, come on, like we�re going to pass up an opportunity to talk about llamas on a book cover.
Best reader comment is from FashionablyEvil:
The Greek letters on ASTERION are killing me. That�s a sigma and a theta, not an E and an O.
�Ths Cthurt Thf Ths Undsrwthld�
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2. Leave Room for Jesus (March 27)
Bendy legs are always a classic for Cover Snark! But so are crotch splash zones and lens flares � we have both in this edition!
Best reader comment is from Zuzus:
I�m sorry, but are we skimming over �A Cock Tales Romantic Comedy�? Does he shape shift into a rooster? Is that his comb in the glass?
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1. I�m So Sorry (March 13)
This is a collection that gets more and more bizarre as your scroll down, going from weird to downright horrifying. Yes, I did feel like it warranted an apology.
Best reader comment is from the aptly named OuchOuchOuch:
Once, in the 1980s, my cousin and I decided that we wanted to have a rodeo. We are not American to begin with and we were forbidden to go near the cattle, so we tried it with goats instead. It was fun until I got a goat horn up my nose, which undoubtedly served me right, but 30-odd years later I still can�t breathe properly through that nostril so frankly, TLDR, I want to warn the main characters in �Bucked by the Alien� that no orgasm is worth a deviated septum.
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And that�s our top five! What do you think? Did you have any Cover Snark favorites this year?
