“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told”
7 July 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Golden Son, Pierce Brown
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:
Gold “All that is gold does not glitter”
I very much wanted to go with The Hobbit this week – the well known picture with Smaug sat atop his stash of gold but I decided to save him for another occasion. Instead, I went for a cover that has ‘Gold’ in the title and on the cover – at least in terms of the colour. Golden Son by Pierce Brown:
Firstly, why is Spiderman on the first cover? Secondly, seriously, what is he doing there. Regardless, a strange selection of covers and I have to say my favourite is the one I read:
Which is your favourite?
Next week – Boats
Future themes:
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”
28th July 2017 – The kindest use a knife, because the dead so soon grow cold (A cover which features a knife)
4th August 2017 – From the ashes a fire shall be woken (A cover which features fire)
11th August 2017- No soldier outlives a thousand chances (A cover which features a soldier)
18th August 2017 – The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork (A cover which features food)
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)
‘The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house All that cold, cold, wet day’
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:
Cat “In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this”
This week was much better than the previous two weeks which I did struggle with – this week I actually had a few books to choose from but eventually went for Holly Black’s Curse Worker series – a series I enjoyed, in fact I’ve pretty much enjoyed everything I’ve read by Holly Black – which makes me think I need to go read The Darkest Part of the Forest soon:
My favourite this week is, probably unsurprisingly the cover I’m most familiar with:
Which is your favourite?
Next week – Hat
Future themes:
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”
‘If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it’
16 June 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Charles de Lint, Friday Face off, Trader
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:
Guitar “You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar”
I thought last week was tough but this week’s took the biscuit! I’ve gone for one of Charles DeLint’s Newford books – Trader. I haven’t read this one but it fits the theme and it does sound really good. Have any of you read this one? Do you recommend it?
What an unusual bunch of covers – all of them are so very different. Surprisingly, the cover with the character playing the guitar is my favourite and makes me very curious:
Next week – Cat
Future themes:
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”
‘You better think of something fast, because, if he turns me into a mummy you’re the first one I’m coming after.’
9 June 2017
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Tags: Anne Rice, Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, The Mummy
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:
Mummy “It shuffles through the dry, dusty darkness – a cover which features mummification
This week I had a few possibles but I decided to go with The Mummy by Anne Rice. I haven’t actually read this book but …. that’s the way it crumbles. Here are the covers:
And my favourite:
Next week – Guitar
Future themes:
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”
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
2 June 2017
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Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Moon Called, Patricia Briggs
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:
Moon “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars”
This week the first book that sprang to mind was Moon Called, the first of Patricia Briggs’s Mercy Thompson series:
Next week – ‘Mummy’
Future themes:
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”
Books and travelling with Lynn 