“..perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?”
15 September 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, The 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:
‘Checkmate’ – a cover featuring a black and white design.
And I’ve chosen Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
My favourite(s) this week:

I like the simplicity of the above cover

And this one is so unusual – it almost plays a trick on you when you try to read it.
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover which is mostly purple
Future themes:
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
From the pricking of my thumbs…
30 June 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The 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:
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 “
This week one book immediately sprang to mind and once I had it in my mind it had to be the one. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.
My favourite this week is, again, as last week unsurprisingly the cover I’m most familiar with:

Which is your favourite?
Next week – Gold
Future themes:
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”
‘My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here…’
14 April 2017
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Richard Adams, The Friday Face Off, Watership Down

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:
Easter “The rabbit of Easter. He bring the chocolate”
Strangely enough I found myself with a number of possibilities for this one! First thoughts were, of course, the white rabbit of Alice in Wonderland. I also managed to find a book that had chocolate bunnies on the front which was a surprise and there were plenty of children’s books about the Easter bunny. But I went with my second, and probably still obvious for me, choice:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
My favourite this week is the cover that really feels like the real ‘Watership Down’, it was also the book that I owned, I have no idea where it is now but I love this cover:

Which is your favourite?
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
Next week – Bridges
Future themes:
21/04/2017 – Bridge “I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to push forward”
28/04/2017 – Beach/Seaside”Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!”
05/05/2017 – Lion “If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off”
12/05/2017 – Phone “Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it”
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”
The first Noel..with angels!
23 December 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Angel, Books by Proxy, L A Weatherly, The 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:
23rd December – The first noel… – a cover with angels
This week my choice is Angel by L A Weatherly:
my winner:

I like this one because whilst it’s trying to bring over the image of an angel there’s a lot of darkness to the cover too – maybe not as angelic as all would seem?
Which is your favourite??
If you fancy joining in with the FFO the themes for the next week is below.
30th December – Ho ho ho! To the bottle I go… – a cover with drink
“But, oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him!”
19 August 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: A cover with blood, Books by Proxy, The Friday Face Off

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:
19th August: “The blood is life… and it shall be mine!”- a cover which features ‘blood’
My book this week is Bram Stoker’s Dracula – this is a classic novel and as such there are many, many, many covers! I stopped at 9… here they are with all their blood red imagery:









This week is a difficult one to choose. I actually really like the 3rd cover – it is very ominous! But my winner is the very simple:

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
26th August: I sit here looking out at all I own – A cover featuring a throne.
2nd Sept: Hell is empty and all the devils are here – A cover with a demon or demonic creatures.
9th Sept: Pack up your troubles… and … leave – A cover with some form of luggage
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.




