Top Ten Tuesday – Book Villains

Villains: you love them, you hate them, your favourite books wouldn’t be the same without them. This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is dedicated to the best of the worst.

As an aside, when making this list I had to separate the literary villains from their film versions. Someone like Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs is memorable to me mainly because of Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal rather than the original novel, so these are my favourite picks based on books alone. 

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Top Ten Tuesday – Skulls & Skeletons

Halloween is just around the corner, so it’s naturally this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl.

I can safely say that, of all the spooky creatures and monsters, undead skeletons terrified me the most as a child. I have a vivid memory of hovering outside the biology classroom with a couple of other second graders, daring each other to look through the keyhole at the skeleton model. It was obviously fake and didn’t even have a skull, but it still sent us running away in terror. So, here are some book covers featuring skeletons, skulls and bones.

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