WHEDONVERSE COLLECTION (#5): DVDs

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy." 

Joss Whedon

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#13): CHARACTERS I'D INVITE TO MY NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY

"Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one." 

Brad Paisley

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#16): BEST BOOKS OF 2016

"You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." 

Paul Sweeney

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#12): FICTIONAL ITEMS I'D GIVE AS GIFTS

"Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you." 

Siobhan Vivian, The List

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#15): BOOKISH ITEMS I WOULDN'T MIND SANTA LEAVING UNDER MY TREE

"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory." 

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

CURRENTLY READING (#39): CITY OF BONES by CASSANDRA CLARE

"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#15): CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

"Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?" 

Matt Groening

BOOKISH GIFTS Vol. 5 (Christmas Special)

What's Santa gonna get you?

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#11): TV SHOWS THAT GOT WORSE WITH EACH SEASON

"I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark." 

Lisa Edelstein

THE MONDAY MUSTS (#2): HIGH FIDELITY, RIDE & FIREFLY

"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?" 

High Fidelity

FANDOM MASHUP (#1): 5 DUOS FROM DIFFERENT FANDOMS THAT WOULD WORK WELL TOGETHER

"There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'." 

Joss Whedon

COLLECTIVE BOOK HAUL (#10): SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2016

The one with the shit-ton of books.

CURRENTLY READING (#38): LIBERTY by ANNIE LAURIE CECHINI

"Live free or die, Captain."

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#6): HOLIDAY READS

"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books." 

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#4): A BOOK THAT MADE ME EMOTIONAL

"But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored." 

Oscar Wilde, The Disciple

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#10): BOOKS I WANT TO FINALLY READ IN 2017

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." 

P.J. O'Rourke

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#14): NEW-TO-ME AUTHORS I READ FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2016

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." 

Ernest Hemingway

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#14): QUOTES

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." 

Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

BEST OF THE BUNCH (#2): NOVEMBER 2016

Both of them have 5 stars, but which one is going to be the best of the bunch?

BOOK WRAP-UP (#7): NOVEMBER 2016 + BONUS MONTHS

1 Month, 6 Books

BLOG WRAP-UP (#5): NOVEMBER 2016

1 Month, 10 Posts

I SUCK AT BLOGGING AND OTHER THOUGHTS

Yep.

CURRENTLY READING (#37): MISS MAYHEM by RACHEL HAWKINS

"Honestly, not enough people know how to use good manners as a weapon."

CURRENTLY READING (#36): 3:59 by GRETCHEN MCNEIL

"You can take the girl out of the universe but you can’t take the universe out of the girl."

CURRENTLY READING (#35): ILLUMINAE by AMIE KAUFMAN & JAY KRISTOFF

"You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me."

CURRENTLY READING (#34): A GAME OF THRONES: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, VOL. 1 by GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, DANIEL ABRAHAM & TOMMY PATTERSON

"If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words."

REVIEW (#5): RAVEN SONG by I.A. ASHCROFT

"Once upon a time... this was when the world had sung to him, the dream-walker, the song-weaver, the star-stringer."

CURRENTLY READING (#33): RAVEN SONG by I.A. ASHCROFT

"Once upon a time... this was when the world had sung to him, the dream-walker, the song-weaver, the star-stringer."

BLOG WRAP-UPs (#4): SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2016

2 Months, 13 Posts

CURRENTLY READING (#32): KILL THE BOY BAND by GOLDY MOLDAVSKY

"I was holding someone captive and all that was going through my mind was a Billboard Top 40 love song. I was going to hell."

CURRENTLY READING (#31): CROOKED KINGDOM by LEIGH BARDUGO

"I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting."

CURRENTLY READING (#30): ANGEL & FAITH: SEASON 9, VOLUME 1 by CHRISTOS GAGE, REBEKAH ISAACS & JOSS WHEDON

"He was there for my crash and burns. Pulling me from the wreckage when everyone else was toasting marshmallows."

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#9): BOOKS THAT TOOK ME THE LONGEST TO FINISH

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light." 

Vera Nazarian

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#13): DISNEY VILLAINS

"Every villian is a hero in his own mind." 

Tom Hiddleston

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#13): AUTUMN

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"

Humbert Wolfe

REVIEW (#4): TWO GRAVES by ZOE KALO

"Laugh at the grief that poisons your heart."

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO (#7): MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE? by JAMES CORDEN

"The difference between doing something and not doing something is doing something."

CURRENTLY READING (#29) / #WAYRW (#3): A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES by SARAH J. MAAS

"I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn."

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#5): MY TBR PILE

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." 

Joseph Brodsky

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#8): BOOKS I WANT AS TV SHOWS

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." 

Groucho Marx

CURRENTLY READING (#28): SHARP OBJECTS by GILLIAN FLYNN

"To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely."

BLOG WRAP-UP (#3): AUGUST 2016

1 Month, 17 Posts

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#7): CHARACTERS I WANT AS FAMILY (GAME OF THRONES EDITION)

"It's the family name that lives on. It's all that lives on. Not your personal glory, not your honor... but family." 

Tywin Lannister

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#12): FAVORITE TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME

"I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of." 

Joss Whedon

CURRENTLY READING (#27): SIX OF CROWS by LEIGH BARDUGO

"The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#8): PYRAMIDS

"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet."

 

Anna Louise Strong

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#11): BOOKS SET IN REALISTIC DYSTOPIAN FUTURE SOCIETIES

"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." 

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#7): MOUNTAINS

"It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." 

Sir Edmund Hillary

CHARACTER DRESS UP (#3): MARY POPPINS & BERT

"Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?"

CURRENTLY READING (#26): ECHOES by LAURA TISDALL

"Greetings, Echo Six. Welcome to the Forum. There is truth to be shared. Let us begin."