Friday Face Off : Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell
7 June 2024
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Tags: Books, fiction, Friday Face off, Love Letters to a Serial Killer, reading, Tasha Coryell
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week I’ve chosen a book that’s already on my shelves. This is a title that feels like a sideways step in terms of my usual reading but it intrigued me. Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell. Here are the covers:
I really like both covers this week. But I had to go with the reflection in the knife. I couldn’t help myself.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Monthly Wrap Up/What’s On My Plate May/June
1 June 2024
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Books Bones and Buffy, Cherie Priest, Christina Henry, Fantasy, Hell for Hire, May/June, Monthly Wrap Up, Rachel Aaron, reading, The CInderwich, The House that Horror built, What's on my Plate
I’m trying to post a wrap up for the end of each month, mainly to help me to keep track of my reading and at the same time look at what I’m intending to read during the month ahead (inspired by Books Bones and Buffy’s What’s on My Plate.
In this post I shall be looking at the reading I completed for May and what I’m hoping to read during June. Initial thoughts – I may have gone a little overboard with books this forthcoming month. It’s still doable I think (fingers crossed).
Here’s what I read during May:
- The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell
- The Silence Factory by Bridget Collings
- The House that Horror Built by Christina Henry
- Moonstone by Laura Purcell
- The CInderwich by Cherie Priest
- Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman
- Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron
- Hera by Jennifer Saint
- Elusive by Genevieve Cogman
Again this month I managed to read and review all my requested books so I’m quite happy with that. I also read another Backlist Book. I had some really good reads. If you’re looking for a new Urban Fantasy then check out my thoughts on Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron. I also really enjoyed The CInderwich by Cherie Priest which was very thought provoking. I have my new batch of SPFBO books for the 10th year of the competition – and I’ll be taking a look at those shortly.
What I’m hoping to read during June (with links to Goodreads).
- Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi
- The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
- The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs
- The Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman
- Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine
- Bitter Waters by Vivian Shaw
- Storm Child by Michael Robotham
This month I read two Backlist books Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman and the Malevolent Seven by Sebastien DeCastell.
This month I’m ticking another book off my Picture Prompt bingo card. The picture with the dog. I read this month The Malevolent Seven (which also counted as one of my Backlist Books. If you check out the picture you can see a dog. And you’ll perhaps notice that there are only six characters in a book with a title about seven characters – yes, the dog is one of the characters. Not sure if it’s a very good doggo but…
PICTURE PROMPT BOOK BINGO 2024 (TEXT VERSION)
| A microscope | A partially unrolled scroll and a pen | ||
| An old Roman coin | A simple crown | ||
| A seashell | A harp (one of the big ones) | ||
| An old camera and tripod | A beehive (with four bees flying around it) | Fluffy cumulonimbus clouds |
How did you get on during April?
The Friday Face Off: You Are Here by David Nicholls
3 May 2024
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Tags: Books, David Nicholls, fiction, Friday Face Of, reading, You Are Here
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week my book is a recent read that I shall be reviewing next week. You Are Here by David Nicholls. Perhaps not my typical read but I read One Day by this author many years ago and so wanted to give this a try. Anyway, here are the covers:
My favourite this week:
It’s a no-brainer for me this week. I don’t dislike the other covers but this is reminiscent of an older style novel somehow, I don’t know, I simply like it.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Friday Face Off : The Wilds by Sarah Pearse
5 April 2024
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Tags: Books, Friday Face Of, reading, Sarah Pearse, The Wilds
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week my book is The Wilds by Sarah Pearse. I shall be picking this one up in July. Take a look at the covers:
My favourite this week:
It’s just more ominous. Those trees look like they’re about to close now that the van has driven by.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Friday Face Off : The Silence of the Girls, Women of Troy #1, by Pat Barker
22 March 2024
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Tags: Books, Friday Face Of, Pat Barker, reading, The Silence of the Girls, Women of Troy
Today I’m returning to the Friday Face Off, originally created by Books by Proxy). I’ve missed these for the past few months and so would like to get back to comparing covers (and hopefully I will be updating this page with a new banner. This is an opportunity to look at a book of your choice and shine the spotlight on the covers. Of course this only works for those books that have alternative covers (although sometimes I use this to look at a series of books to choose a favourite). . So, if you have a book that has alternative covers, highlight them and choose your favourite. If you’re taking part it would be great if you leave a link so I can take a look at what you’ve chosen.
This week I’ve chosen a book from a series that I love and am currently awaiting the release of the (I think) third and final instalment (The Voyage Home). Pat Barker’s The Silence of the GIrls was such a good book (followed by another fantastic second instalment in The Women of Troy. If you’ve not read these books yet I highly recommend them for lovers of tales retold – in this case a Trojan retelling from the female perspective. I’ve shown two covers (although there are more available – these two are very eye-catching).
My favourite this week:
Difficult to choose this week because I really like both covers. I’ve chosen this version because I like the colouring but more than that it feels like a conscious choice has been made to only show the body of the woman so you can’t actually put a name to her as such. She is unidentified and that feels very fitting given that this is a retelling from the women’s perspective.
Which is your favourite?
Join me next week in highlighting one of your reads with different covers.
Books and travelling with Lynn 