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Cover Characteristics - The ELEPHANT in the room

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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! 

Cover Characteristics - Give the Emperor some Clothes!

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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 .

Cover Characteristics - Mountains

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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.)

Cover Characteristics - Flags

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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.)

Cover Characteristics - Schools

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For this week's Cover Characteristics, we are featuring Schools 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 been out of school long enough to be able to say: It was the best days ever! Today I'm going to take a trip down memory lane and feature two schools that inspired me to attend boarding school and one school that I know inspire a large number of boys in South Africa to go to boarding school. 

Cover Characteristics - Eggs

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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!     

Cover Characteristics - Balconies

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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... 

Cover Characteristics - Feathers

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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:

Cover Characteristics - Ladders

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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.)  

Cover Characteristics - Arrows

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Today's Cover Characteristics - Arrows 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.)   Staying true to my species (creatures of habit), I will again list my favourite cover as the one that I thought of first.      

Cover Characteristics - Lipstick

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Today's Cover Characteristics - Lipstick 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.)   Due to an ongoing dispute with the Tooth Fairy, I don't wear lipstick. But if I did wear lipstick, this is what I would have loved to look like:

Cover Characteristics - Benches

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Today's Cover Characteristics - Benches 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.)   My favourite cover for today is again going to be the first book that popped into my head when I saw the theme. (But now I really need to pop a chocolate in my mouth)

Cover Characteristics - 23 May 2016

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Today's Cover Characteristics - Don't you turn your back on me! (Okay, actually it is covers featuring only the back of people) 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.)  

Cover Characteristics - Silhouettes

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Today's Cover Characteristics - Silhouettes 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.)   When I saw today's theme, a song immediately popped into my head and yes - I've been singing the whole day to the music in my head. (I also march to the beat of my own drum, but that's completely besides the point today).  Who of you remember Bonnie Tyler's album Silhouette in Red ? I remember this soooooo well. I had (still have, thanks to facebook) this lovely friend in Primary School who introduced me to Bonnie Tyler when we were about 11 or 12. W...

Cover Characteristics

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Today's cover characteristic - MAPS Cover characteristics is a meme hosted by  Sugar & Snark  - each week they post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favourite covers with that characteristic. Remember to add your name to the linky so that others can visit!

Cover characteristics

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Today's cover characteristic - CIRCUS (oh yea!) Cover characteristics is a meme hosted by  Sugar & Snark  - each week they post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favourite covers with that characteristic.

Cover characteristics

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Cover Characteristics is a weekly meme hosted by http://sugarandsnark.co.za/ This week's cover characteristic is:  Alcoholic beverages    Right ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse. Next to wine, I can highly recommend this as an excellent remedy for a sour disposition.