Small towns have long memories…
21 October 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Salem's Lot, Stephen King
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:
‘There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home: a cover with a house/abandoned house’
Of course, Halloween is fast approaching, the nights are drawing in and so what better book to go than with Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot.
There are some good covers here and different things that I like about all of them (oh and by the way – there are a heck of a lot more covers – but I decided to restrain myself). I actually really like the bottom row first cover, the simplicity and sensuality but I really don’t feel it quite suits the book somehow.
My winner is, because it really does fit for me, I love the psychedelic colour, the house with the roots growing down and the huge ass name – this really does scream King doesn’t it:
Which is your favourite??
If you fancy joining in with the FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below.
28th October – ‘And I, Jack, The Pumpkin King’! – a cover for Halloween
4th November – Nomad is an island – a cover with a wanderer
11th November -Falling off the rails – a cover with train tracks
18th November – The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day – a cover with stormy weather
25th November – As old as the hills?? – A cover with mountains
2nd December – Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements – A cover with fruit
9th December – Soul Meets Soul on Lovers’ Lips – a cover with lips
16 December – Give a Girl the Right Shoes and she can conquor the world – a cover with shoes
23rd December – The first noel… – a cover with angels
30th December – Ho ho ho! To the bottle I go… – a cover with drink
Friday Face Off: Castles in the sky!
14 October 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, N K Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
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 and can be found here. 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. This week’s theme:
14th October: There was once a princess, who lived in the top of the highest tower – a cover with a castle.
And, my choice this week is The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance #1) by N K Jemisin
Some very different covers this week. My winner is:
Which is your favourite?
If you fancy joining in with the FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below.
21st October: ‘There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home: a cover with a house/abandoned house
28th October – ‘And I Jack, The Pumpkin King’! – a cover for Halloween
4th November – Nomad is an island – a cover with a wanderer
11th November -Falling off the rails – a cover with train tracks
18th November – The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day – a cover with stormy weather
25th November – As old as the hills?? – A cover with mountains
2nd December – Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements – A cover with fruit
9th December – Soul Meets Soul on Lovers’ Lips – a cover with lips
16 December – Give a Girl the Right Shoes and she can conquor the world – a cover with shoes
23rd December – The first noel… – a cover with angels
30th December – Ho ho ho! To the bottle I go… – a cover with drink
Friday Face Off: Triple whammy! ‘This solitary thing: a living tree’
7 October 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Covers with trees, 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 and can be found here. 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. I missed the last two weeks so I’ve done a quick catch up :
23rd Sept: Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, timorous beastie – A cover with a beast or beasts.
I have to go for the second cover with this one – although I think the first one is quite chilling somehow. The second cover gives me a laugh out loud pantomime moment – I want to shout out to the girl ‘it’s behind you!’
30th Sept: This solitary tree! A living thing – a cover with a tree or trees.
This one is more difficult. I actually want to go for the second cover because this is what most of the books that I own by Gaiman are styled like – and I do like this style. I also like the blue cover with the tree – and I don’t think I’d seen that cover before. Difficult to choose between those two for me.
This week’s theme:
Consumed by the darkness within, it hides all our sins” a cover that is predominantly black.
The two black ones are very similar but my winner:
Which is your favourite?
If you fancy joining in with the FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below.
14th October: There was once a princess, who lived in the top of the highest tower – a cover with a castle.
21st October: ‘There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like home: a cover with a house/abandoned house
28th October – ‘And I Jack, The Pumpkin King’! – a cover for Halloween
4th November – Nomad is an island – a cover with a wanderer
11th November -Falling off the rails – a cover with train tracks
18th November – The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day – a cover with stormy weather
25th November – As old as the hills?? – A cover with mountains
2nd December – Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements – A cover with fruit
‘What’s in a name? that which we call a rose’
16 September 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Beauty, Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, Robin McKinley
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple and can be found here. 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 (stop on over to Tenacious Reader to post your link so we can all check out each others choices). Simples. This week the theme is:
16th Sept: A bouquet for you m’lady – A cover featuring a flower/flowers.
Not as tricky as last week – I at least had a couple of ideas! Anyway, my choice this week is Beauty by Robin McKinley. A lovely retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale with plenty of covers to choose from:
And my winner:
Which is your favourite?
If you fancy joining in with FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below. I’ve listed these as BooksbyProxy is currently a bit swamped and MIA as a result. Don’t worry, ordinary service will be resumed soon
23rd Sept: Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, timorous beastie – A cover with a beast or beasts.
30th Sept: This solitary tree! A living thing – a cover with a tree or trees.
7th October: Consumed by the darkness within, it hides all our sins” a cover that is predominantly black.
14th October: There was once a princess, who lived in the top of the highest tower – a cover with a castle.
Pack up your troubles..
9 September 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Friday Face off, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme being hosted by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple and can be found here. 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 (stop on over to Tenacious Reader to post your link so we can all check out each others choices). Simples. This week the theme is:
9th Sept: Pack up your troubles… and … leave – A cover with some form of luggage
This was a tricky one to find a cover for! I think if you look very closely on these covers you can spot that some of the characters have baggage with them! Anyway, my winner this week:
Which is your favourite?
If you fancy joining in with FFO the themes for the next few weeks are below. I’ve listed these as BooksbyProxy is currently a bit swamped and MIA as a result. Don’t worry, ordinary service will be resumed soon
16th Sept: A bouquet for you m’lady – A cover featuring a flower/flowers.
23rd Sept: Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, timorous beastie – A cover with a beast or beasts.
30th Sept: This solitary tree! A living thing – a cover with a tree or trees.
7th October: Consumed by the darkness within, it hides all our sins” a cover that is predominantly black.
14th October: There was once a princess, who lived in the top of the highest tower – a cover with a castle.
Books and travelling with Lynn 