Friday Face Off : A book with a one word title
25 March 2022
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Insomnia, Sarah Pinborough
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:
A book with a one word title
Hopefully this is a nice easy theme. I’ve read quite a lot of books over the years with just one word but as I’m all about showcasing the latest releases as often as possible I’m going to go with a book that I’ve literally just started reading. Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough. There’s only two cover this week so lets take a look:
My favourite is going to be the cover I’m most familiar. I appreciate the second cover with the broken glass and the light glinting off the sharpened points plus the broken title but I love the colours of the first cover and it’s so spooky with the girls hair seemingly being blown across her face and the wavy outlines of the door frames, it has a certain surreal quality that just draws me in – I would definitely pick this up if I saw it on a bookshelf:
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 :compare the covers for two books you’re excited about
2022
Books and travelling with Lynn 
I love the first cover the best as well. I can’t wait to hear what you think of this!
I like the second cover! Its less creepy!
Wonderful, I definitely like the blue cover more! So chilling!