Cover Collage: In the Tentacled Deep

Today’s cover collage is all about books with covers featuring octopuses (and squid!) With the first strains of early summer weather hitting our troposphere, we can’t help but think about swimming. And when we think about swimming, we can’t help but think about the tentacled creatures of the deep grabbing our ankles and pulling us under…just me?Some of these books feature the octopus, sure, but some are about queerness through metaphors of water, and the search for alien life, and siblings named Squid. Tentacled creatures serve as a metaphor for so many things: being different, intelligent, shy, dangerous, quick, and mysterious. We hope you explore our roundup by clicking these covers below.P.S. We thought we were being so *~edgy~* with this cephalopodic collage, but turns out our pals at 49th Shelf beat us to it.  * * *Visual learner? Get more Cover Collage here. And read more about Buoyancy Control (and look at more pictures of octopuses) here.