Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme here at Books by Proxy. Join me every Friday as I pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe.
| The Friday Face-Off – A Weekly Meme |
The Friday Face-Off is back at Books by Proxy! Many thanks to the wonderful bloggers who continued with the meme in my prolonged absence! The following is a list of upcoming topics. As always, check Lynn’s blog for the most up to date list!
| The List |
02 March 2018
The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing
A cover featuring something from Greek mythology
09 March 2018
…but Icarus flew too close
A cover featuring the Sun
16 March 2018
I got no strings to hold me down
A cover featuring a doll or puppet
23 March 2018
When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs
A cover featuring a Tower
30 March 2018
A little soil to make it grow
A cover featuring seeds/spores
06 April 2018
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations
A cover featuring a family
13 April 2018
Lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it
A cover featuring a panorama
20 April 2018
Where there’s fire there’s…
A cover featuring smoke
27 April 2018
Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture
A cover that is positively medieval
04 May 2018
A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister
A cover featuring a hand/hands
11 May 2018
Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth
A cover featuring a dinosaur/s
18 May 2018
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs
A cover featuring a gravestone
25 May 2018
Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap
A cover featuring footsteps
01 June 2018
Clinging and Invasive
A cover featuring creeping vines
08 June 2018
Raining Cats and Dogs
A cover featuring a stormy sky
For those of you who are interested but haven’t seen a Face-Off post before, here’s how it goes:
Each week I select a book and make a comparison between the UK and the US covers, displaying the artwork (in all its awesome glory) before selecting one of the two or more covers as the ultimate winner of my Face-Off.
Simple! The following is a rough guide to how this meme will work:
- Each week will follow a theme
- The Friday Face-Off feature page will be kept up to date for the theme of the week and those several weeks following it
- For the purposes of comparing a good variety of cover art only one of the two or more book covers chosen for comparison need relate to the theme (although if you can find two then great!)
- The books most certainly don’t have to be the UK or US editions – they’re just the covers I’m usually most familiar with and consequently post more often – so post whichever covers catch your eye!
- Still unsure? – Take a look at some past posts!
- To sign up just add your link to the bottom of that Friday’s post and link back!
As always, topic suggestions are welcome!
| Past Posts – Author A – Z |
Ben Aaronovitch | Rivers of London | Apr 15
Aliette de Bodard | The House of Shattered Wings | Dec 18
Peter V. Brett |The Daylight War | Dec 25
Becky Chambers | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet | Jan 01
Agatha Christie | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Don’t Use The Phone
Susan Dennard | Truthwitch | May 13
Helen Lowe | The Heir of Night | Jan 15
Karen Maitland | The Falcon of Fire and Ice | May 06
Brian McClellan | The Powder Mage Trilogy | Apr 08
David Mitchell | The Bone Clocks | Mar 11
Naomi Novik | Temeraire | Mar 18
Nnedi Okorafor | Lagoon | Apr 01
Sarah Pinborough | Mayhem | May 20
Daniel Polansky | Shoot for the Moon. Even if You Miss it, You’ll Land Among the Stars
Terry Pratchett | It Shuffles Through The Dry, Dusty Darkness
Deanna Raybourn | A Curious Beginning | Apr 29
Patrick Rothfuss | The Name of the Wind | Feb 26
Jeff Salyards | Bloodsounder’s Arc | Apr 08
Brandon Sanderson | Elantris | Mar 25
V.E. Schwab | A Darker Shade of Magic | Jan 29
V.E. Schwab | Vicious | Feb 19
Brian Staveley | The Emperor’s Blades | Feb 05
Jonathan Stroud | The Whispering Skull | Dead Men Tell No Tales
Marc Turner | Dragon Hunters | Mar 04
Django Wexler | The Thousand Names | Feb 12
Chris Wooding | Retribution Falls | The Airplane Takes Off Against The Wind, Not With It…
