05. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

There's nothing we need more in the middle of a dreary January than a burst of colors. This week, you're searching your TBR for a cover that features a variety of colors. There's a rainbow of options for this prompt, so let your imagination soar!

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

What are you reading for this prompt? What would you recommend to others?

[Kathy]

I'm considering these:


Some I'd recommend:



Edit: I actually read

[Dana]

This is the perfect time to tackle one of the many books on my shelves:



I recommend

[LeahS]

I'm using .

I would recommend and .

[Misty]

I have four on my TBR that I will probably choose from for this prompt:


Liar by K. L. Slater
Cat on the Edge by Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane by P. L. Travers
Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters

[Sheena]

[Bea]

[Stacey]

I'm pretty confident that this first read of the year will remain one of my favorites come the end of the year.

by Adam Langer is a timely, provocative tale of Chicago high school students who participate in a staging of The Diary of Anne Frank. The first half of the book takes place in 1982, but the performance has implications for the cast and its' director far into the future, when we revisit them in the fateful year of 2016. I highly recommend this 5-⭐️ read.

I'd also recommend:

[GailW]

I just finished reading True Biz for this prompt. LOVED it!

[NancyJ]

Gail W wrote: "I just finished reading True Biz for this prompt. LOVED it!

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I’m glad you liked it too! It’s great for disability prompt too.

[Joy D]

For this prompt, I read:

Companion Piece by Ali Smith - 4* - My Review

[Severina]

I read Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter



Not bright colours, but more than 4 nonetheless.

[Liz]

I read Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss

[Barbara]

I read The Candy House byJennifer Egan

[Hannah]

I read The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas. I liked how the colors popped out against the black background, plus I just thought the cover was really striking and cleverly connected to the book.



I would recommend:

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I'm slotting Legends & Lattes in here; I got lucky with my library hold. I loved it; the hype is not misplaced.

[Evelyn]

I read

[Dubhease]

I read

[Marie (UK)]

I read

[♞ Pat]

I have about a dozen books that I'm trying to decide between. I'm going to start with

The Villa and Love Medicine and go from there. Horse show season has started so that's going to shoot a big hole in my reading time.... maybe a lot of audio books in my future because I expect to be spending a lot of time in my truck hauling to shows every weekend for the next eight months.

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
Read ~ 1.31.23
Pages ~ 279
Relevance ~ turquoise, yellow, green, white

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Read ~ 2.3.23
Pages ~ 333
Relevance ~ greens, blues, white, black

[Joanne]

I went with one I've been putting off for awhile: The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne
So glad I finally read this. It was so interesting and different than a lot of memoirs I've read.

[Samantha]

I read .

[Kristin]

I am currently reading

So far, so good! I am looking forward to seeing what happens. This topic has to be pretty easy. I own several books in my house that have at least 4 different colors on them.

[Maple]

For this week, I have picked: The Siberian Incident

Colors: black, red, blue, white, and grey.

[Sherri]

I read

[Bana AZ]

I read Cytonic for this. It's the 3rd book in the Skyward series by Brandon Sanderson.
I wasn't counting black, white or gray. This has pink, brown, yellow, and purple. I loved it!

[Anne]

I am reading The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll, which is a book of excerpts from different books by Gertrude Jelyll. I can recommend The Newcomer by Fern Britton.

[Nike]

I'll read The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel. The sixth and last of the books about Ayla from The Clan of the Cave Bear

[Tracy]

I read Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho with this cover:

My intent was to not count black or white as colors, and also not to count shades of a color as different colors... BUT, since the content of this book was important for me to read (most important in my decision to count it) — an more important than other books I considered for this challenge — I decided that the fine points of cover color were less important. I guess I'll consider this a KIS option. I think since the stripes are so distinctly different areas of color I find it less of an infraction.

The book was good, and covered some very important points. The fact that this project was taken on by a younger man (only 30 when it was published), and was not a part of his professional life, is really commendable and impressive. I definitely learned some things, and may have felt like I learned more if I hadn't read other books about the realities of Black History in the past 2-3 years (as opposed to what I was taught in school). I gave it 4 stars.

[LeahS]

I read . I've been meaning to read this for some time, so was happy to include black and white as colours (though there are various shades of the coloursas well).

This was a beautifully written, honest memoir, which doesn't require the reader to always sympathise with the writer, but portrays her point of view very eloquently.

[Anastasia]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
I really wanted to fit this book in somewhere because it is so good. It does fit for prompt 11 - a character with a disability but I have a few other books that I can slot there. Others have mentioned prompt 13 - a repetitive shape as well.
I highly recommend reading this book for any of those slots as long as you read it. ;)

[Lizzy]

For this one I chose The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.

I’ve been meaning to read this for quite a while. The fact that the author has a new book this year gave me a nudge.. plus I really like the cover.

[Rose]

I read A Dreadful Splendor, by B.R. Myers which fits, but BARELY. I was reading it for my book club and didn't have a better option, but I kept having to count again to double check it really worked. XD It ended up at about a 3.5 for me -- I liked all of it until the end, which messed it up quite a bit for me.

[Tiffany]

I read by Louise Erdrich. Loved it, as I do all of her works, and glad she won the Pulitzer for it.

I would recommend my favorite 5 star books from this category:

[NancyJ]

I read With the Fire on High. It works for several others too.

[Dana]

I have finished by Tahereh Mafi and it was amazing! The ending ruined it a little for me so I gave it 4 stars, but overall it was great!

Colors: Yellow, Orange, Red and Green.

[Ana O. ⭐]

The House in the Cerulean Sea 4 stars.

[Denise]

I read The Ten Thousand Doors of January back in ....well, January.

Beautiful cover, disappointing book.

Update: I moved Shanghai girls here and Ten Thousand Doors to #49 ATY best books...

[LeahS]

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This was a very good book which was quite a hard read, as it is a stream of consciousness novel. It is obviously set in Belfast during The Troubles in the 1970s but the city and the characters are never referred to by their actual names, only descriptions, which adds to the sense of danger and paranoia.

[NancyJ]

I recently read and liked:

Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Horse by Geraldine Brooks

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I did Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

[Jill]

What are you reading for this prompt?
I read Untimely Death by Cyril Hare

[Katie]

I bought the Candy House last year and read it for this prompt. It’s not for me.

[Book Concierge]

I read

Taken To the Cleaners – Dolores Johnson – 3***
The first book in the Mandy Dyer cozy mystery series gets the dry cleaner involved with a local bag lady brings in one of the cleaner’s signature laundry bags, inside of which is a bloody suit. I figured out the killer long before either Mandy or the police, but it still held my attention. This was first published in 1997 and it shows … limited computer use, no cell phones. Still, I’d be willing to try another in the series.
LINK to my full review