“I’m just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can’t give you the answers.”

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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:

As purple as the heather – a cover which is mostly purple

And I’ve chosen a book which I read quite some time ago: Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia:

My favourite(s) this week, well I quite like the very last one with the spooky trees but I’m drawn to this one (although I don’t like the red badge!):

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Which is your favourite?

Next week – a cover featuring a heart

Future themes:

29th September 2017 – Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady – a cover featuring a heart

6th October 2017 – ‘Then let the crabs be cursed by Odin’ – a cover featuring a Viking ‘

13th October 2017 – You have nice manners for a thief, and a LIAR!’  – a cover with a dragon

20th October 2017 – ‘Me and my….’ – a cover featuring a Shadow

27th October 2017 – “Thus with a kiss I die” – a cover featuring a couple

3rd November 2017 – ‘Desperate affairs require desperate measures’ – a regency style cover

10th November 2017 – ‘zip it, lock it and throw away the key – a cover featuring a key

17th November 2017 – Snap! – a cover featuring a double image or reflection

24th November 2017 – ‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently’ – a cover featuring snow

1st December 2017 – The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font

8th December 2017 – ‘Do not go gentle’ – a cover featuring the night…

15th December 2017 – Hubble bubble toil and trouble – a cover featuring a portion/perfume bottle

‘This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are’

Posted On 8 September 2017

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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:

That great condenser of moral chaos, The City (A cover which features a city)

And I’ve chosen The City & the City by China Miéville

My favourite this week is:

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Which is your favourite?

Next week – a cover featuring a black and white design

Future themes:

15th September 2017 – ‘Checkmate’ – a cover featuring a black and white design.

22nd September 2017 – As purple as the heather – a cover which is mostly purple

29th September 2017 – Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady – a cover featuring a heart

6th October 2017 – ‘Then let the crabs be cursed by Odin’ – a cover featuring a Viking ‘

13th October 2017 – You have nice manners for a thief, and a LIAR!’  – a cover with a dragon

20th October 2017 – ‘Me and my….’ – a cover featuring a Shadow

27th October 2017 – “Thus with a kiss I die” – a cover featuring a couple

3rd November 2017 – ‘Desperate affairs require desperate measures’ – a regency style cover

10th November 2017 – ‘zip it, lock it and throw away the key – a cover featuring a key

17th November 2017 – Snap! – a cover featuring a double image or reflection

24th November 2017 – ‘I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently’ – a cover featuring snow

1st December 2017 – The pen is mightier than the sword – a cover featuring a fancy font

8th December 2017 – ‘Do not go gentle’ – a cover featuring the night…

15th December 2017 – Hubble bubble toil and trouble – a cover featuring a portion/perfume bottle

‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse…’

Posted On 1 September 2017

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FFO.jpg

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:

1st September 2017 – Being born in a stable does not make one a horse (A cover which features a horse)

And I’ve chosen White Horse by Alex Adams:

My favourite this week is:

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Which is your favourite?

Next week – A City

Future themes:

8th September 2017 – That great condenser of moral chaos, The City (A cover which features a city)

‘A census taker once tried to test me…’

Posted On 25 August 2017

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FFO.jpg

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:

If I be waspish, best beware my sting (A cover which features an insect)

And I’ve chosen The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris:

Funnily enough I really like the movie tie in for this book which rarely happens for me but that being said my favourite this week is:

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Which is your favourite?

Next week – A horse

Future themes:

1st September 2017 – Being born in a stable does not make one a horse (A cover which features a horse)

8th September 2017 – That great condenser of moral chaos, The City (A cover which features a city)

‘Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon.’

Posted On 18 August 2017

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FFO.jpg

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:

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork (A cover which features food)

This book cover is the only one that I could come up with this week!

My favourite this week:

I’ve had to go with the obvious one this week:

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Which is your favourite?

Next week – Insect

Future themes:

25th August 2017 – If I be waspish, best beware my sting (A cover which features an insect)

1st September 2017 – Being born in a stable does not make one a horse (A cover which features a horse)

8th September 2017 – That great condenser of moral chaos, The City (A cover which features a city)

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