Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers That Feel Like Winter




Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the topic is Book Covers That Feel Like Summer (Submitted by Ellie @ Curiosity Killed the Bookworm). Now we are right in the middle of winter so I thought I would choose wintery books instead.


However, I only recently did a Six Degrees of Separation with all winter titles so I am going to try to not use any of those books this time.


As I composed my list I did have a sudden realisation that most of my winter covers are very snowy, and yet that is not what winter looks like for us at all! There is snow a couple of hours away from us but it is very unusual for us to actually get snow at my house!



So, here are my winter, but not my winter, books.






The Christmas Party and Midnight in the Snow by Karen Swan - Karen Swan has been publishing one summer book and one winter book so I could possibly have just done a heap of her books but lets do some other authors as well.






The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden - Russian fairy tales are intrinsically wintery to me!



The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte - Another Russian setting, this time during winter in WWII. Such a great book!






Burial Rites by Hannah Kent - Moving away from Russia, this book is set in Iceland. My memories of this book are that it is very wintery and bleak.



In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl - I loved this book when I read it a number of years ago.




Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik - Another fairy tale retelling, this time Polish. This book is so wintery!



Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole - This cover is possibly closer to what our winter looks like...maybe.






The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys - Pretty sure the main river in Melbourne has never frozen so much that you could host ice fairs on it!



Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh - This is a bit of a genre departure for me these days but back in the day I used to read quite a bit of paranormal romance.



So there are my wintery books, without using a single one with the word winter in the title!

19 comments:

  1. I've never experienced what is often thought of as a traditional winter either, with cold and snow. Still, these are beautiful and iconic!

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    1. Deb, I have, but it was a very long time ago!

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  2. What lovely winter-y covers!

    My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-feel-like-summer/

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  3. Great winter covers. I think of snow for winter but actually it hasn't snowed here in the UK (well South East England) for a long time now! My 3 year old son has only seen snow once.

    Have a great week!
    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-feel-like-summer/

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    1. It snowed quite a few times when I lived in the UK back in the late 1990s.

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  4. You found good examples of winter. I liked The Bear and the Nightingale but haven't read any of the sequels.

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    1. I started listening to The Bear and the Nightingale but didn't get very far. I will get back to it one day I'm sure!

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  5. They are all lovely wintery covers! I enjoyed The Bear and the Nightingale and Burial Rites and I'm hoping to read The Tolstoy Estate soon.

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    1. I really enjoyed The Tolstoy Estate when I read it a couple of years ago!

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  6. I love wintery covers, they are my favourite! Great choices here :)
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/top-ten-tuesday-376/

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  7. As someone who has had both blah and snowless winters AND cold and snowy winters, I feel like the snowy winters are romanticized. When the snow first falls, it's beautiful. But as it melts, it starts to look depressing.

    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/summer-y-titles-of-10-books/

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    1. I lived in the UK for a few years and used to like waking up in the morning after it had snowed overnight. It was always so quiet and pristine, until it wasn't!

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  8. yes indeed burial rites is bleak and so sad but a great book!

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  9. Really love all of your wintery covers!

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