I was sat watching the mornings vlogbrothers video (a youtube channel run by John and Hank Green who, if you know anything about books, you are likely familiar with) when a new idea was introduced to me. At the start of the video, John created two ‘book title portraits’. I implore you to see how great they are for yourself once you read this post. This idea I found is known by many names, namely: book title portraits, book title poetry and book spine poetry. I rather like the last one.

Later that day I went to my room, sized up my bookshelves and decided to try my hand at some ‘book title portraits’ of my friends. These turned more into poetry, finding myself unable to build such complete sentences as many examples online do. Here is one:
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