{"id":11048,"date":"2021-02-16T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T06:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2021-02-16T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:51:08","slug":"top-ten-mardi-gras-colored-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=11048","title":{"rendered":"top ten mardi gras-colored covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatartsyreadergirl.com\/2021\/02\/top-ten-purple-yellow-green-book-covers\/\">Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten books in the Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow, and green. Honestly, I don&#8217;t love cover challenges and thought about sitting this one out. But it seemed like more work at the outset to finish my top ten reads of 2020 post, so I started pulling together library books, figuring that of the 20+ books I have out, surely half must fall into this category. Nope. And by then I was committed, so the rest of the books are from my personal TBR collection that didn&#8217;t require dismantling shelves in order to extricate. (Yes, I do realize that makes it less likely I&#8217;ll read those books. Your point?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the end I found 10:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50949394167\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ten Mardi Gras-Hued Books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50949394167_271456100e_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Ten Mardi Gras-Hued Books\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<p>Top row: <em>Fast Cakes<\/em> by Mary Berry, <em>Undercover Bromance<\/em> by Lyssa Kay Adams, <em>Jake and Lily<\/em> by Jerry Spinelli, <em>Jo &#038; Laurie<\/em> by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz, and <em>Everyday Cookies<\/em> by Dorie Greenspan<br \/>\nBottom row: <em>The Runaway Princess<\/em> by Johan Tro\u00c3\u00afnowski, <em>Wayward Son<\/em> by Rainbow Rowell, <em>Selected Fables\/Fables Choisis<\/em> by Jean de La Fontaine, <em>The Intrigue at Highbury<\/em> by Carrie Bebris, and <em>The Beast Player<\/em> by Nahoko Uehashi  <\/p>\n<p>Have you read any of these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl asks us to share ten books in the Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow, and green. 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