‘If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it’
16 June 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
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
Filed under Book Reviews
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
Filed under Book Reviews
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”
“P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.”
26 May 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
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”
Twist the bones and bend the back. Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca
12 May 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Hex, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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:
Phone “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it”
I thought this was going to be tough – but, a book immediately sprang to mind for this one. A very unusual and creepy tale involving a witchy haunting: Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt:
I’m not overly fond of the title font although there is a good reason behind the choice. I like the colour, I think there’s plenty to lead the eye and then upon closer inspection you will notice the ghostly looking face towards the top of the cover.
Which is your favourite?
Next week – Plane
Future themes:
19/05/2017 – Plane “When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ….”
26/05/2017 – Mice “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘it might have been’…”
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”
Books and travelling with Lynn 