‘Formula 86: My greatest triumph. A work of… genius’
15 December 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Ami McKay, Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, The Witches of New York
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:
Hubble bubble toil and trouble – a cover featuring a potion/perfume bottle
This week I’ve chosen a book that (given the above) is about witches. I didn’t have a book in mind at the time so this is purely coincidental but I’ve picked the Witches of New York by Ami McKay. To be honest, now I’m looking at this I’m not sure that’s a bottle on the cover, more a jar – still if you stand far enough back it does look like a bottle! And, what’s done is done!
My winner is:
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring a puzzle or game
Future themes:
22nd December – ‘Oh, we loves games! Doesn’t we, precious?’ – a cover featuring a Puzzle or Game
29th December – If music be the food of love, play on – a cover featuring a Musical Instrument
5th January – ‘The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else’s lake.’ – Under the Sea
12th January – ‘More than one meaning have I’ – a cover featuring a Knot/knots
19th January – You know your A, B, Cs – a cover made up only of letters/words
26th January – “The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction” – a cover featuring grass
2nd February – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – a Psychedelic cover
9th February – ‘My what big teeth you have’ – a cover featuring a cloaked figure
16th February – ‘Groovy baby’ – a cover that is: Retro
23rd February – “There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me” – a cover featuring a staircase
2nd March – ‘The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing’ – a cover featuring something from Greek mythology
9th March – ‘…but Icarus flew too close’ – a cover featuring the Sun
16th March – ‘I got no strings to hold me down’ – a cover featuring a doll or puppet
23rd March – “When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” – a cover featuring a Tower
30th March – ‘A little soil to make it grow’ – a cover featuring seeds/spores
6th April – “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family
13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ – a cover featuring a panorama
20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke
27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval
4th May- ‘A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister.’ – a cover featuring a hand/hands
11th May – ‘Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth’ – a cover featuring a dinosaur/s
18th May – ‘Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;’ – a cover featuring a gravestone
25th May – Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap – a cover featuring footsteps
1st June – clinging and invasive – a cover featuring creeping vines
8th June – Raining Cats and Dogs – a cover featuring a stormy sky
I’d have to go with the same one as you. I think it’s the label on the bottle more than anything!
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Lynn 😀
I love the cover you picked. I wonder if anyone will pick Perfume by Patrick Suskind for this week’s theme??
I looked at that book to be honest – but I haven’t read it yet and I usually try and pick a book I’ve read -although it’s not necessary.
Lynn 😀
Yes, I agree…And it’s definitely a bottle, an ancient one.
Phew – I chose this one and then thought is that a jar???
Lynn 😀
by the way – i just tried to leave a comment on your latest post but I’m not sure it worked – I’ll check again but normally I receive a message saying my comment will appear after authorisation but this time nothing – it looked like it had disappeared.
Lynn 😀
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What a fabulous choice of book, Lynn:)). And yes… I entirely agree with your favourite cover – a really nifty, eye-catching design.
I like your pick! It’s definitely the most interesting one by far!
I haven’t read this book so I don’t know which cover suits the story, but I do rather like the first cover with the ornate looking gate. 🙂