Weekly Wrap Up : 08/04/18
Well, this week has been crazy. I’ve done no blogging at all and I’m behind with reviews. We’ve had friends staying and books and everything else have taken a back seat. It was good fun. I have read two books though.
Books read:
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst – wow, I love this and can’t wait to read No.2.
Next Week’s Reads:
- School for Psychics by K C Archer
- The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
Friday Face Off: “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody…
6 April 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Mary Norton, The Borrowers
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:
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family
Well, I really struggled with this one. I knew that Spoonbenders had a cover with a family on it, but I’ve used that before (I think) so wanted to avoid it. Then I thought of The Sisters Mederos which is a recent read that I enjoyed but there’s only the one cover at the moment. Finally, I came up with a childhood read, The Borrowers by Mary Norton – no shortage of covers for this one!
My favourite this week is the one with the family helping to hang up the title of the book with all the reels of cotton and chess pieces in the picture to give you the idea of the scale of the people:
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring a panorama
Future themes:
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
Weekly Wrap Up : 01/04/18
Easter is here – hope you’re all having a break and spending time with family and friends. My last week’s reading went a little off track. I threw in another one of my SPFBO books and also a short ghost story:
Books read:
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
Next Week’s Reads:
- School for Psychics by K C Archer
- One Way by S J Morden
- The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
- Tiger Lily by K Lincoln Bird
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
#SPFBO Finalists: My sixth book: Devil’s Night Dawning (Broken Stone Chronicle #1)
Below is a round up of the ten finalists that have been put forward in this year’s SPFBO (Self Published Fantasy Blog Off). A link with more information about the competition can be found here.
I’ve now randomly chosen my sixth book for the SPFBO. The books I’ve read so far are: The War of Undoing by Alex Perry, Chaos Trims my Beard by Brett Herman, Pilgrimage to Skara by Jonathan S Pembroke, Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe (review to follow shortly) and Tiger Lily by K BIrd Lincoln (review to follow shortly). The sixth book that I’m about to embark on is Devil’s Night Dawning (Broken Stone Chronicle #1). This book was the finalist put forward by Kitty G.
A little bit more about the book:
Devil’s Night Dawning (Broken Stone Chronicle #1)
As a kingdom teeters on the brink of war, two witch hunters fight to stop a warlock before he unleashes an ancient evil…
For centuries, the Argolian Order has protected the mortal vale from the dark forces of the Other Side. Now the barrier between worlds is breaking down, and two monks must survive a civil war before they can stop the wizard responsible.
When Adelko is assigned to legendary exorcist and witch hunter Horskram, he expects an adventurous life. Death by adventure isn’t what he had in mind – but it seems the only outcome when they learn of a sorcerous theft that threatens the world.
The thief wants to silence them – permanently. And so Horskram and Adelko flee from one danger to another as the Jarl of Thule leads a rebel army against the King of Northalde, plunging the realm into conflict.
And on the Other Side, demonkind reawakens…
The Broken Stone Chronicle is a riveting tale of war, quest, magic and horror for fans of medieval fantasy, sword and sorcery, dark fantasy and epic fantasy. Buy a copy now!
March : My Month in Review
The first quarter of the month is already at an end. Spring is upon us and I hope you all have lots to look forward to. My Month in Covers is here.
Books read: this month = 9
- The Bitter Twins by Jen Williams – review to follow
- Master Assassins by Robert V S Redick
- Looking Glass By Andrew Mayne
- Planetfall by Emma Newman
- Feeder by Patrick Weekes – review to follow
- Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe – review to follow
- Tiger Lily by K Bird Lincoln – review to follow
- The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath – review to follow
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp – review to follow
So, a few reviews to catch up with but I do feel like I’m catching up with them slowly but surely.
What’ve you been reading??
Backlist books
Unfortunately none this month. I had a lot of review books so couldn’t get to my own reads.
Unfinished series completed:
None this month.
Books Bought:
I’m really looking forward to The Silent Companions and hope to slot that one in regardless of my schedule, similar with the Stuart Turton book which I’ve heard such good things about. Obviously I want to read them all of course but as and when:
- Dark Eden by Chris Beckett
- The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Review Books:
- By Fire Above by Robyn Bennis
- Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley
- The Oddling Prince by Nancy Springer
- Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
- Legendary by Stephanie Gerber
- Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley
- The Atrocities by Jeremy C Shipp
- The Last Sun by K D Edwards
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Temper by Nicky Drayden
That probably looks a tiny bit excessive given that I’m trying to be careful but the dates for these are not all due in the same month.
I’ve completed another two of my SPFBO books: Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andy Rowe and Tiger Lily by K Bird Lincoln (reviews to follow)
My cover compare this month: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett:
My favourite is the dark cover which I’m actually most familiar with:
Let me know what plans you have for your reading and blogging and feel free to share a link if you like.
