Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
This weeks prompt is: books with my favorite color on the cover! My favorite color is green. To me, it is a color full of nature, life, yet so calming. The color of leaves and grass and katydids. Emeralds. Moss. Luna moths. Frogs. The patina on old copper. I love all shades of green, from deep forest greens to bright jewel tones to more muted sage and then springlike light greens.
I usually write a little something about the books in these posts, but today is just all about the cover and the color.
So…this post was originally all just cover and color. But Laurie pointed out to me that this made my post inaccessible to her as a screen reader user. So I went through and tried to do alt text. I hope I did it correctly! As the parent of a wheelchair user, I understand how frustrating inaccessibility is.
How do you feel about green?
I often see green covers on books with nature themes.
I am always drawn to those!
I love green — and these covers are lovely!
Thank you!
I have that edition of We Capture the Castle! These are all so lovely.
It is such a good story!
Last Summer at the Golden gave me all the Dirty Dancing vibes. It was such a cute story.
That one is on my TBR! I am glad to hear that! I will move up my list.
Green is one of my favorites, and that last cover captures it especially well!
I love that cover. It is just so lush and pretty!
Green was my youngest son’s favorite color since he was a little boy until a few years ago when he switched to blue. My favorite colors were always purple, yellow, and orange. Now it’s teal.
I like teal a lot too. It’s a good color. My son’s favorite is blue as well!
Each time I see one of Maureen’s books on a list I’m reminded that I haven’t read more in that series beyond book one. Someday I must remedy this. Never read the book, but I do think the I Capture the Castle film is quite funny! 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting my website today.
Lol! There are just so many books out there to read! It is hard. I really liked that entire series except for the very last book that came out.
I like the movie too!
Green and blue are my favourite colours. I love the covers you have chosen.
Thank you! My son loves blue too!
I love these covers! And as soon as I started reading your description of why you love green so much I had a wonderful cascade of beautiful images run through my mind – it really is such an evocative colour, in all its shades! Excellent choice!
Oh I am so glad to hear that! And thank you so much!
I capture a castle is one of my favorites <3 Also, Tress, that is my favorite edition, the color is stunning, so bright and the illustrations gorgeous
Yes! I agree totally! I love that cover of Tress. And I love I Capture the Castle too. I could read it all the time.
Green is so pretty.
It is!
Ohhh I wish you wrote something about these books, or at least title and author. now these are all images, inaccessible to me as a screen reader user 🙂
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Oh no!! Thank you for bringing this to my attention! I will have to read more about that. My son is a wheelchair user so I understand about inaccessibility and how frustrating it can be.
Laurie, I tried the Alternative Text feature but I am not sure if I did it right!
A fantastic collection of stunning green covers!
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
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Thank you!
Beautiful covers! I love I Capture the Castle.
It is such a good story!
I see we have great taste in green covers. Love your choices! Happy Tuesday!
We definitely do! And thank you!
Green isn’t my favorite color, but I do love it
It’s a good one!
I find green very soothing as a colour and love many shades of it! As a redhead, it’s also very popular in my wardrobe as well as on my bookshelf. From your books here I absolutely adore Half A Soul, I thought it was so charming. I also have Tress of the Emerald Sea out from my library atm although mine has a different cover that is no where near as pretty as this one.
Oh I am sure as a redhead you look amazing in green! I like to wear it too because I have green eyes! Lol. Half a Soul is on my TBR – I have heard such good things about it. And I loved Tress, I hope that you do as well!
For a long time, green was my grandson’s favorite color. So, we could get him to eat any and everything green! I’m not sure what it is these days.
Those book covers are all lovely. I tend to pick books based on the title, then I look at the cover. If it’s too Harlequin Romance-y, I skip it!
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Ha that is a handy trick!
I usually pick on the cover and title as well. Much like I pick a bottle of wine. Lol.
Green is my favorite color too. I love it for all the reasons you mentioned. It’s calming and versatile and vibrant and just lovely in every way!
Happy TTT!
Susan
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It is such a rich and lovely color!
Actually, I am new to liking the color green. I especially love medium to darker shades. For several years, I have loved blue greens like aqua and teal. For me, I believe green shades of color are soothing and comforting.
I really like teal as well! I would say that I like the medium to darker shades of green the best as well.
What a fun prompt! I love green! Going to add a few of these books to my library list!
Jill – http://www.dousedinpink.com
Thank you! This was a fun one to put together!
Great color choice, and a nice selection of books, too! Green is such a wonderful color choice, especially for spring and summer, when there’s so much more green in nature.
I’ve only read two of these books, but I’m a bit obsessed with how beautiful all the covers look in that collage!
Thanks Leah!!! Summer is all about green and bright colors. I love winter and fall the best, but I do miss all the green during those months. I think that is why I have so many indoor plants!
Thank you!
I’m completely in agreement with you. Except for how I can’t keep plants alive, but my mom is in charge of all the plants!
I loooove green, I usually prefer a more minty color or a neon lime color, but I do love these covers, specifically The Beautiful Ones
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Thank you!! And both of those are beautiful shades of green!
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