“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
26 May 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, Friday Face off
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:
Mice “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘it might have been’…”
This week the first book that sprang to mind was Mice and Men – but, in spite of the title I’m not sure there are any mice on the covers. I knew there were mice on the cover of Hitchhikers Guide but the book that really jumped out to me was Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
Next week – Moon
Future themes:
02/06/2017 – Moon “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”
09/06/2017 – Mummy “It shuffles through the dry, dusty darkness”
16/06/2017 – Guitar “You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar”
23/06/2017 – Cat “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this”
30/06/2017 – Hat “It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself “
07/07/2017 – Gold “All that is gold does not glitter”
14/07/2017 – Boats “The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat…”
21/07/2017 – Planet “Any planet is ‘Earth’ to those who live on it”
Waiting on Wednesday : The Girl in the Tower (The Bear and the Nightingale #2) by Katherine Arden
24 May 2017
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Tags: Breaking the Spine, Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower, Waiting on Wednesday
The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home—but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege.
Orphaned and cast out as a witch by her village, Vasya’s options are few: resign herself to life in a convent, or allow her older sister to make her a match with a Moscovite prince. Both doom her to life in a tower, cut off from the vast world she longs to explore. So instead she chooses adventure, disguising herself as a boy and riding her horse into the woods. When a battle with some bandits who have been terrorizing the countryside earns her the admiration of the Grand Prince of Moscow, she must carefully guard the secret of her gender to remain in his good graces—even as she realizes his kingdom is under threat from mysterious forces only she will be able to stop.
‘We’re going where the sun shines brightly’
23 May 2017
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Tags: Summer reading, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Summer Reads Freebie
Basically my summer reads are the next upcoming list of books waiting on my shelves. In the spirit of holidays, beaches and generally chilling with an easygoing read I’ve looked through my upcoming books and come up with the following:
- All Good Things by Emma Newman
- The Space Between the Stars by Emma Corlett
- A Kiss Before Doomsday by Laurence MacNaughton
- The Fallen Kingdom by Elizabeth May
- The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H Wilson
- Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
- The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
- The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Sea of Rust by Robert Cargill
- The Turn by Kim Harrison
What you looking forward to this Summer?
Weekly Wrap Up : 21/5/17
This week I’ve finished Rotherweird -I enjoyed this but I’m just going to be perfectly frank – this is not a quick read, I’m not saying that because it’s a bad thing, I’m simply stating the fact. Yes, of course, I’m sure you could skim read it and make it a bit quicker but the pace is not that of a book that you’re going to zip though. It’s a thinking person’s book. You need to mull and chew the cud and reflect. Review to follow. I’ve also read Andrew Pyper’s The Only Child and hopefully my review for that one will be forthcoming very soon – check out the first couple of sentences here.
Next week I’m hoping to read :
- Between The Stars by Anne Corlett
- All Good Things by Emma Newman
- Skitter by Ezekiel Boone
So, who am I kidding with that three book wishlist! Hey I have to have aspirations and reading three books in a week is about all I can think of at the moment.
And, finally, my cover highlight this week, I’ve gone for the Split World series by Emma Newman:
How was your week? What you currently reading?
The #SPFBO 2017
It’s difficult to believe but the #SPFBO 2016 is all wrapped up with a wonderful winning entry and lots of incredibly enjoyable books to read. There are lots of blog posts out there to read about but I’ll point you in the general direction of Mark Lawrence’s blog to get a general feel for what went on. The winner – which you should definitely read – was the Grey Bastards by Jonathan French – and believe me when I say you should read quite a few -or a lot – of the other entrants because there were some awesome reads.
Now, I did intend to write a much fuller piece of my experience taking part and in fact I probably will do so because I thought it had such a good feel – but, for now, this is just a quick post to let you know that the SPFBO ’17 is about to commence. Yes, that’s right, we’re going for our third year and hopefully it will be as awesome as last year.
As I said, a fuller post will follow, this is just a quick heads up. The details are here.
That is all for me today. More to follow. In the meantime thank you to everyone who took part in the #SPFBO ’16. A huge thanks especially to all the authors who put their work forward for review – there wouldn’t be any SPFBO without you after all 😀 And, good luck to everyone this year.
Watch this space for my list of books for 2017.
Remember people – there can be only one.
Books and travelling with Lynn 