Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted!  Greetings! We’ve picked up a tiny, tiny, tiny little kitten in the neighbor’s garden a couple of weeks ago. I took him to the vet this morning and she doesn’t think he is much older than 6 weeks (I know – aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh). My husband calls him “Stinkie”. That roughly translates to Smelly Cat. Yea! I’ve got my own Smelly Cat. So today’s Cover Characteristics will be dedicated to my brand new Smelly Cat. We’ll get you some Perfume my boy.  Not the easiest of book covers to find… But I did manage to find a few and even added one or two to my reading list. My favorite Covers (yes, all 3. Okay, you choose):    The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury The Sleeping Prince by Melinda Salisbury The Scarecrow Queen by Melinda Salisbury Such beautiful […]

Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) I haven’t done a Cover Characteristics in what feels like ages. Is it just me, or does time fly by at a rapid speed lately? We hardly get time to dress ourselves, but when the emperor comes strolling down the street dressed as nature intended, one needs to take a break and put some clothes on that man! Today’s Cover Characteristic’s theme is: Clothes only. As a known creature of habit, I will list my favorite one first: The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards There might be a few nicer covers out there, but this book was such a great read. It’s one of those stories that stays with you long after you’ve cleared out your spring wardrobe.      There is a season by Marita van der Vyver This […]

Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) This week’s theme is Mountains. I really feel that Cover Characteristics need a soundtrack. Is it only me who constantly hear songs in my head when I see the themes?? This week it was a toss up between:    Climb every Mountain from The Sound of Music and The Climb by Miley Cyrus from the good old days when she still aspired to be Julie Andrews. Only Me? Really? Okay. Let’s talk books. My number one choice for this week is not one, but three books. All by the same author though and all three featuring the most beautiful mountain in the world – Table Mountain      Devil’s Peak – Deon Meyer Dead Before Dying – Deon Meyer 7 Days – Deon Meyer If you haven’t read books by Deon Meyer yet, […]

Welcome to another edition of Cover Characteristics! This week we will be joining Dr Sheldon Cooper on his hit show: Fun with Flags No, not really. But wouldn’t that be fun? Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) I’ve search far and wide for books featuring flags on the covers of countries/states/galaxies as discussed on Fun with flags. But that didn’t proof to be very successful. If you could find any – please let me know. I just ended up using my own collection.        Les Miserables by Victor Hugo one of the most famous and beautiful novels ever written.  Cosette by Laura Kalpakian This is a sequel to Les Miserables that I haven’t read yet. Not that much interested in reading it either. Have you or would you read this one? A Little in Love by […]

Today’s theme: Have all your eggs in one basket Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.) The first books that popped in my head when I saw this week’s theme, were children’s books!     The goose that laid the golden eggs I used to love this tale as a child. In fact, it is one of the stories that I use in my extra classes for early readers. I find it amazing how many students hear and read this story for the first time in my class. Shouldn’t kids know all the fairy tales and all the fables long before school? Ah well, never to late to learn a lesson or two from tales old as time. Green eggs and ham I still want to put green coloring in the eggs one morning. Serve it with ham […]

It’s been a hectic week. I’ve been away from my computer and I am only online for an hour or so. Mainly just to catch up on all the posts AND to quickly do Cover Characteristics!Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.)  This week’s theme is balconies. I could think of a couple of books where balconies played a big part, but alas – all the action doesn’t happen on the covers you know. So you might have to use your imagination for a few…  The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith She fell from the balcony.     Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The most famous balcony scene in forever.   And then there were none  and The Mousetrap both by the Queen of books with houses-that-should-all-have-balconies, Agatha Christie. (A balcony is always a good murder setting. Therefore, all […]

Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 (or more – whatever ruffle your feathers) covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.)  As you know by now, I tend to list the book that pops in my mind first as my favourite pick. Every now and again (like last week) there is no popping and I have to rely on other, secondary resources. Like Google. Luckily there were a few pops this week: The Four Feathers by Anthony Hope The first pop was this classic novel. Although I’ve never read it, I did watch the movie. If you’ve read it, let me know.   When the wind blows and The Lake House by James Patterson. I’m not really into genetic modification fiction, but I enjoyed both these books quite a lot.    Nightbird and The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. I know that there isn’t an actual feather on the cover of The […]

29 June 2016 – Ladders Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by Sugar and Snark. Every week they give us these gorgeous themes and then you have to pick 5 (or more – whatever blows your hair back) covers featuring that theme. If you want to participate:  Pick your covers  Post it to your blog Share your post’s URL in the linky provided by Sugar and Snark Go and check out the other guys who also posted! (This might influence your current TBR list a great deal.)  I don’t have a single book on any of my shelves featuring a ladder. So I had to call on Google-my-old-friend once again. Neither have I ever heard of any of the books I did end up choosing and I’ve only listed one as a TBR. I guess that will have to be my favourite pick of the week: Froelich’s Ladder by Jamie Duclos Yourdon The rest of my selection is totally random and Google-my-old-friend picked them for me. Much obliged.  If you’ve read any of the following, please let me know if I need to pull a ladder closer in order to shelf it!     Don’t you just love the vintage-look of these books? […]