Greetings you guys! Welcome to this week’s edition to Top Ten Tuesday. As you all know by now, TTT is proudly hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Top Ten Tuesday is a fun way to connect with your fellow bloggers and to just have some fun with books. Or that is our interpretation at least! Today’s prompt is Book Covers In the Colors of My Country’s Flag (It’s the 4th of July in the USA today, so tell us what country you live in and share book covers that match the colors of your country’s flag!)
Both me and my Mommy are born and bred in South Africa. We are mostly proud of that (as you can see on our brand new graphic in the sidebar). For today’s prompt, we are going to have a bit of fun with our current loadshedding debacle here in SA. If you don’t know what “Loadshedding” means, you can read our Wondrous Words Wednesday post with a full description here
South Africa has a very bright and colorful flag. We can’t say the same of our night skies at the moment. It’s mostly very dull and dark. I’ll quickly go through the first 5 colours:
The next 5 books, I will dedicate to the last color in our beautiful flag and to the Prince of Darkness….
Yes, the current situation in our country is highly frustrating. But we still love it. Most of the time. Normally when the sun is shining. Especially when the lights are shining.
We can’t wait to see what fun you are having with your flags today!
I’m sorry the loadshedding is happening. It must be hard <3
But you made a great post about the colors in your countries flag.
What a fun and unique way to present your list. I love it!
This may be the best top ten Tuesday list I’ve ever seen! Loadshedding doesn’t sound fun at all but the list made me laugh!
This is a great way to do this week’s prompt! I love how you incorporated all the colors in different ways. Also, thank you for sharing about your situation. I had no idea this happens and I’m eager to learn more.
OMG loadshedding sounds awful! I hope everything gets sorted out soon, because no electricity for 6 hours a day sounds awful. At least you’re not in summer, right?
I love what you did with your post, and I never even realized how colorful and pretty the South African flag is. Great post this week!
What a fun post, not only your colorful flag, love the little stories you give with the books
Laodshedding sounds… horrible. I wonder when we’ll get that. Probably not long. But I’m sure it’s incredibly annoying. I hope you get relief from it at some point maybe. Love the Feeney inclusion!!!!!!
Oooh! I love your take on this week’s topic!
Thanks Ronyell!
I love your take on it – loadshedding is something we do occasionally experience here in Australia during stretches of 40+*C summer days, when everyone turns on their air con, so you can imagine how fun that is. However it doesn’t sound like it’s ever as long or consistent as the ones you are currently experiencing in SA at the moment.
Oh I can imagine everyone using their aircons in heat like that!
Thanks for the visit!
Oh no, I’ve never heard of loadshedding — it sounds very frustrating! But kudos on a really creative post to highlight what you’re dealing with!
Oh it’s very frustrating! But humans are the most adaptable species on the planet, so we make the best of it!
Wow, I can remember living in Nairboi and the power kicking in and out, it was frustrating. Most of the time we had generators that would kick in. I hope things settle soon. Love your creativity with your post.
Hi Cindy!
We have a whole inverter system here at home and I have a UPS backup for my internet at school, but gosh – it’s frustrating as anything!
Ah yes loadshedding, that was a not so fun surprise when I spent a few months in South Africa a few years back, and caused some practical hurdles for my placement as doing a journalism placement and not having access to the internet for a couple of hours whilst working on my articles was……interesting to say the least! I love the humorous way you put together this post though, great way to bring some levity and creativity out of what I know is a not so great situation-yours has to be the most fun and unique post I’ve read this week, and you picked some great covers too!
Hi Jo!
Interesting yes… LOL! The worst thing is that we don’t have internet and networks a lot of the time as well when it’s loadshedding. We all try to have inverters and chargeable lights and things as far as possible, but it’s still highly frustrating!
OOh nice take on the topic! Mostly new to me books as well, but a few are familiar by cover!
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Thanks for the visit Jessica!
I didn’t know about the loadshedding but I can imagine that can be quite frustrating indeed. But I’m glad you still found the humor and creativity in it for today’s post!
Thanks Lindsey!
It is very frustrating yes! But we try to make the best of it as you can see!
Your flag is beautiful, and ….
Hollow Kingdom! I’m so happy to see this book on someone’s list.
Thanks Rebecca!
Oh I LOVED Hollow Kingdom!! Have you read the second one? Let me know if you have and how it was. I’ve listened to Hollow Kingdom on Audible and it was sooooo good!
Yes, I read Feral Creatures right after Hollow Kingdom – it was/is just as good as Hollow Kingdom. S.T. did a great job, somehow, raising D.
Great idea to show off the flag heart with each selection since SA flag has so many colors. I love it!
Thank you Anne! I got it on CANVA and just loved it as well!
Your dark choices fit perfectly!
Thank you Deanna! I had the most fun with them for sure!
This has been the most educational post I have received on South Africa’s current state of affairs. I also use humor as a coping method. Such a great take on this weeks post.
Thank you Shelby!
Laughter is still the best medicine…! We aren’t the only country who suffers from loadshedding, I know that, but gosh! It’s such a schlep!
Oh my God, your post is so hilarious. And the more so that it’s based on your terrible tragegy. So sorry you have to go thourgh this.
It’s honnestly the best blog post I have seen in a long time, so well done bravo !
Mine is more mundane, lol: https://wordsandpeace.com/2023/07/04/top-ten-book-covers-in-the-colors-of-the-french-flag/
Hi there Emma!
Aaah thank you so much!! Yes, laughter is the best medicine! Crying is not going to help for sure.
I had fun doing this and that’s the most important!
Oh my goodness, I was unaware of the current state of affairs with the loadshedding. I can see how that would impact basically every aspect of daily life. But you made some great picks to show a sense of humor about it all.
Thanks Tanya!
Yes, it does impact EVERYTHING. But I guess that’s just the way it is at the moment and we need to try to make the most of it. Laughter is always the best medicine!
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It must be extremely frustrating to have random power outages without warning. I hope things are sorted out soon. Also, a great way to present the colors of your country.
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Hi Pam!
We are definitely not holding our breaths that this will be sorted out soon. Just learn to live with it and make the most of it! And make jokes…
Thanks for the visit!
Oh my, Mareli, you have really outdone yourself! Brilliant.
Hi there Debbie! Thank you…. It was fun to have a bit of fun again. I’ve had another WONDERFUL truly South African experience today again – trying to renew my drivers license. Drove over an hour to the nearest one that can help me before end of the month, just to do everything and then the system went down….. Gotta love Africa!!!
Eek! Frustrating!
Someone else in this week’s list was from South Africa, too! 🙂
Hi Lydia!
It’s most probably Sarita, I will hop over to her now!
This is so clever Mareli! My in laws are always talking about the loadshedding debacle as you call it.
Thank you Marg! Yes, it really is a debacle of note. And typically South African – we end up making jokes!
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