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 (this doesn’t have to be a book that you’ve read), compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite.   Future’s themes are listed below – if you have a cover in mind that you’re really wanting to share then feel free to leave a comment about a future suggested theme.  I’ve also listed events that take place during the year, that I’m aware of, so you can link up your covers – if you’re aware of any events that you think I should include then give me a shout.

I’ve added themes in below. For information, I’m trying out some new ideas so along with coming up with particular items for book covers I thought we could also look for certain elements contained within the book or that play a large part in the story – this really broadens things out because I have plenty of more ideas with this – I’ve gone for a few of the Tough Travel Themes (so a book with that theme – just choose any book – the theme isn’t necessarily on the cover, then compare covers), also, I’ve thrown in some genres and some colours.  Hopefully this will open things out a little and give us some more freedom to come up with new books.

This week’s theme:

Genre : Gadgets and airships – a book that is ’steampunk

So, I’ve had a strange few days. Basically, came home a couple of days ago and my dog, who gets very excited, kind of charged at me (and he’s such a clumsy goofball – he didn’t stop in time) and his big old bullet head rammed my arm.  Wow, did that hurt.  Just a bit.  Anyway, I left it for a few hours, took pain killers, tried to carry on as normal with lots of facial wincing and eventually decided I needed to go to hospital.  Long story short. Nothing is broken – and thank goodness for that.  But it is very sore and so I’m doing everything quite literally single handed at the moment.  There you go – that’s my story for this week.  Hope you’re all well and sorry for the delay with the Face Off.

This week I’ve gone for a book I read a few years ago and loved.  The Mechanical by Ian Tregellis (#1 of The Alchemy War Series.

Here are the covers:

Not a lot of coves to choose from and seeing them together the original one does stand out the most.  I do like the mechanical heart though so here it is enlarged a little so you can see the detail:

Which one is your favourite?

If you’re taking part in this week’s theme feel free to leave your link in the comments below.

If you know of an event that’s coming up let me know and I’ll try and include covers that work for the event itself so that you can link up to the Friday Face Off and, as always, if you wish to submit an idea then leave me a comment – or if you’d like to host a week then simply let me know.  Also, I would just mention that it’s very possible that some of these might be repeats from previous FFOs although I have tried to invent more ‘open ended’ prompt that can be interpreted differently and also prompts that relate to emotions.  Finally, don’t struggle with any of these, this is meant to be a fun way of highlighting books.  If you can’t come up with a book you think fits for a particular week use a freebie – perhaps a recent read for example:

Next Week’s Theme : The most recent book you’ve read that has covers to compare

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