“That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
19 January 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Annihilation, Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Jeff VanderMeer
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:
You know your A, B, Cs – a cover made up only of letters/words
I had a few covers in mind for this but I’ve gone for Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) by Jeff VanderMeer (Borne would have been another good choice by the same author). I don’t think I’ve ever had such a varied selection of strange and wonderful covers:
I’m torn with this one – I like the first three on the last row but my favourite is going to be:
There’s just a sense of something really coming alive on this cover.
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover that features grass
Future themes:
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
The one you chose is quite fetching. I like the first and last covers on the first row.
I love the first cover on the last row – it was almost my final choice.
Lynn 😀
I don’t know if it’s because it’s the one I’ve seen the most, or because it doesn’t confuse my head to look at it, but I like the first one. However, the one you picked is great as well and it would be my second choice. Perhaps because of the movie I’m seeing this one everywhere. Maybe I should pick it up.
The one I’ve seen the most is more often than not my favourite – reinforcement winning the day.
Lynn 😀
Wow, great idea Lynn! I had no idea there were so many covers, I love them all😁
I know – so many covers – I don’t think I even got them all.
Lynn 😀
Anihilation was a great choice! Honestly,all of these covers are so unique and fantastic! Like really, I love all them 🙂 Had to choose, that second one is really sticking out to me
Oh yeah! I’m back doing this meme for the new several weeks: https://wp.me/p53gyJ-4om
Excellent – must stop over – and sorry I’m a bit late. The last week was a bit hectic.
Lynn 😀
This is so cool!
Annihilation is a great book and all those covers fit the book perfectly. I can’t wait to see the movie 🙂
I hope you enjoy the movie.
Lynn 😀
The first one in the last row reminds me somehow of the cover for “Borne”, so I guess that’s the reason I like it… 🙂
Yeah, that’s probably why I like it too.
Lynn 😀
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I love the first one, and it was the cover i wanted to own, but it’s the US cover and I could never find it. I also loooove the hypnotic cyclopes cover.
Such a lot of unique covers for this book – I also like the first one too.
Lynn 😀
I like the cover with the flowery X on it the best! There’s something so striking about that riot of colour on a white background.
Such a lot of unexpected covers for this one and I like quite a few of them.
Lynn 😀
What’s fascinating is how the titles are so understated on many of the covers. It’s hard to choose! I think I like the one in the middle with the rocks 😀
I think we’ve all liked a different one for this cover so far.
Lynn 😀
There are some really awesome covers here, Lynn – and what an excellent choice of book! My favourite is the first cover on the bottom row – it has that sense of wrongness that runs through the book, though your favourite is really beautiful:). Hope you are having a great weekend.
‘sense of wrongness’ – spot on.
Lynn 😀
I think your pick was my favorite as well, though its a tough call (also like the two on the left in the bottom row, and actually the one all the way to the right in the next to bottom row)
I also like the two on the bottom left row.
Lynn 😀