If you were a book what would the blurbs say?

What would those closer to you put on the inside of the cover?

Yesterday, I wrote about the imporance of judging books by their covers. Heather Ann replied thusly:

People are "books" judged by our "covers". Knowing that people have impressions of me based on appearances is empowering. Want to make a different impression? Change your appearance.

We spend a lot of time worrying about what other people see when they see us. A lot of us want to control the narrative of how we come across. We want to control the perspective of how we are seen.

How we appear and how we behave are the outward things people judge us by. Most times, it’s easier to change our appearance than our behaviour.

My favourite part of a book cover is on the flaps. That’s where friends of the author took some time to write blurbs - short, positive reviews about the author and their work.

The critics who hated the work? They never get a place on the inside flap of the book. Though their critiques may get read, we typically don’t go showing the world how shameful and inadequate we are acc…