Monday 18 November 2019

Our Top 10 Book Covers


"Don't judge a book by it's binding", "All that glitters is not gold", "You can't judge a book by it's cover"...and everything along those lines!
The quote was apparently originally recorded a newspaper in 1867: “Don’t judge a book by its cover, see a man by his cloth, as there is often a good deal of solid worth and superior skill underneath a jacket and yaller pants.” and obviously means that you shouldn't or can't base your opinion on someone/something due to appearance alone.
As 'different' people ourselves, we don't. When books are involved however, we do! haha Don't tell me you haven't ever picked up a book from the shelf because it looked pretty!

That being said, we thought we'd like to share a handful of our favourite covered books from our collection each today.



Mr's Top 5
Tales from the Haunted Mansion 4 by Amicus Arcane
Wyrd Sisters by Terry Prachett
Tales of the Borders
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Breverton's Complete Herbal by Terry Breverton

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Mrs's Top 5
Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
Fabled Stories from the Zoo by Albert Alberg
Tales from the Haunted Mansion II by Amicus Arcane
The Brightest Star in the North by Meredith Rusu
Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella by Brittany Candau



For my (Mrs H) picks in particular, I can say that I have at least read 3 out of the 5 of my picks so really can attest to them not only beautiful covers but being awesome stories too...though the same can't be said for my husband with a total of 0 read out of 5 haha!
Mr H and I have found some great books in charity shops purely based on first appearances and a quick blurb scan! We also own some wonderful books with not such appealing covers as well as multiple copies of the same book in different cover formats, so yeah. 


💀 Mr & Mrs Hallow 💀



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