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

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?"

BEST OF THE BUNCH (#1): JULY 2016

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

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#10): BEST BOOK COVERS OF THE YEAR SO FAR

"Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying." 

Amy Smith, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#6): SMILEY FACE

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." 

Dr. Seuss

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#5): FLAGS

"[The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob for a parade and was marching around with a Swedish flag." 

Cuthbert Soup, Another Whole Nother Story

BOOKISH GIFTS Vol. 4

What are you going to buy?

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#3): BOOK WHERE FRIENDSHIPS MATTERS

"And, for what it’s worth, I’d pick you over a thousand ordinary and extraordinary friends. I think even if we just met on the street, even if I just saw you in passing, I’d know what you are." Nehemia

"An assassin?" Celaena

"The sister of my heart." Nehemia

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#6): MOST UNLIKABLE CHARACTERS

"Great fiction is fueled by bad decisions and human weakness."

 Kristen Lamb

CHARACTER DRESS UP (#2): ALICE

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#12): COLORING BOOKMARKS

"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."

Oscar Wilde

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#4): SCHOOLS

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed." 

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

FEATURE & FOLLOW (#4): FAVORITE BOOK TO MOVIE (AND TV SHOW) ADAPTATIONS

"Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different."

Stephen King

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#5): MOST RECENT ADDITIONS TO MY WISHLIST

"When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

MONTHLY RECOMMENDATIONS (#1): EMPOWERING FEMALE CHARACTERS

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." 

Maya Angelou

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#11): DISNEY

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." 

Walt Disney