Friday Face Off : You Like it Darker by Stephen King
29 December 2023
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Tags: Friday Face Of, Stephen King, You Like It Darker
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week my book is a strange choice for me – You Like it Darker by Stephen King – an unusual choice in that this is a collection of short stories which I don’t as a rule lean towards, but this does appeal to me. Here are the covers:
My favourite:
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Countdown to 2024 Day 29: A roaring fire – a book that was heartwarming
29 December 2023
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Tags: A book that was heartwarming, A Roaring Fire, Countdown to 2024, Day 29, Louisa Morgan, The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird
Today is day 29 of my countdown to 2024. Using a series of prompts each day I will post a book title that I believe fits the prompt. The aim is to highlight as many books as possible that I read from 2023 and shine the spotlight on them once again (although for some prompts I will be looking at future reads). A list of prompts can be found here if you wish to join me in counting down to 2024.
Today’s prompt: A roaring fire – a book that was heartwarming
For today’s prompt I’ve chosen a book that was full of hope, friendship and was genuinely heartwarming not to mention excellently narrated. The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird by Louisa Morgan.
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Countdown to 2024 Day 28: Candlelight – a book that kept you up into the early hours
28 December 2023
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Tags: A Book that Kept you up Late, Alice Feeney, Candlelight, Countdown to 2024, Daisy Darker, Day 28, Good Bad Girl
Today is day 28 of my countdown to 2024. Using a series of prompts each day I will post a book title that I believe fits the prompt. The aim is to highlight as many books as possible that I read from 2023 and shine the spotlight on them once again (although for some prompts I will be looking at future reads). A list of prompts can be found here if you wish to join me in counting down to 2024.
Today’s prompt: Candlelight – a book that kept you up into the early hours
For today’s prompt I’ve chosen a book that I really enjoyed. Alice Feeney is a fairly new to me author but I’m loving her work – first Daisy Darker and now Good Bad Girl. Highly recommended. I can’t wait to see what this author comes up with next.
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Can’t Wait Wednesday : The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy #2) by Mark Lawrence
27 December 2023
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Tags: Can't Wait Wedesday, Fantasy, Mark Lawrence, The Book That Broke the World, The Library Trilogy #2, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is : The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy #2) by Mark Lawrence. I’ve been waiting to show this book and finally we have a cover so here it is, one of my most anticipated reads for 2024:
The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN’T BURN.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true.
Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other’s reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she’s to return to her life. While Evar’s journey leads him outside into the vastness of a world he’s never seen, Livira’s destination lies deep inside her own writing, where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written.
And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira’s old life – friends and foe alike – back together beneath new skies.
Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences. Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure, discovery, and romance, but it’s also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of all shades too.
Expected publication : April 2024
Countdown to 2024 Day 27: Christmas Crackers – Ended with a bang
27 December 2023
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Tags: AJ Ryan, Christmas Crackers, Countdown to 2024, Day 27, Ended with a bang, Red River Seven
Today is day 27 of my countdown to 2024. Using a series of prompts each day I will post a book title that I believe fits the prompt. The aim is to highlight as many books as possible that I read from 2023 and shine the spotlight on them once again (although for some prompts I will be looking at future reads). A list of prompts can be found here if you wish to join me in counting down to 2024.
Today’s prompt: Christmas Crackers – Ended with a bang
For today’s prompt I’ve chosen a book that fits the definition very well -but I can’t say more because that would take me to the land of spoilers. Red River Seven by AJ Ryan.
Books and travelling with Lynn 