SEARCHING SATURDAY (#1): WATER ON THE COVER

"Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface."

Santosh Kalwar

HYPE OR LIKE FRIDAY (#1): 3 THINGS I LOOK FOR IN A BOOK

"If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment."

Joe Queenan, One for the Books

*Hype or Like Friday is a weekly meme created by Jillian, Larkin from Wonderfilled Reads, and Britt from Geronimo Reads. Check out the Goodreads Group and participate!

• Action and Adventure

Byzwa-Dher

"She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city."

Roman Payne, The Wanderess

I used to have I lot more patience with slow books, now... Not so much. I need action and a fast paced plot or my interest floats away real quick.

I need twists and turns and lots of action and adventure and explosions and battles and people losing limbs or something like that.

I guess that's why I don't read a lot of realistic contemporary books anymore. People doesn't lose body parts that often in real life. Oh, well.

• Not Overly Romance-Filled Plot

Deltamike

"They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever." 

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

I don't know why I don't care about romances in books, I really don't. My favorite movies have a lot of romance in them and I love them, obviously. But it doesn't do a lot for me in books.

It's fine if it isn't s big part of the plot, but when the romance gets bigger than the other parts of the book it annoys the hell out of me.

That happens a lot when I read synopsis of books that look cool as hell but then this happens: "she meets a boy that will change her life..." it's like "Agghh, again? Nope, thank you but nope. I'll pass."

• Charismatic Characters

SirTiefling

"Charisma is the fragrance of soul."  

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

A lot of people think that the characters they read about have to always be totally three-dimensional , some people just want to relate to the characters and their story.

Me? Sure, I want all of that, but the most important thing for me? Charisma. I don't care if they're the hero or the villain, I need to feel like they're rock stars.

Well maybe they don't have to be at that level, but they have to keep me interested and for that I don't have to feel like I know them or they know me, they don't have to be like real people. They just have to be cool, even if it's in a completelly superficial way. I'm simple like that, sorry.

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#11): BOOK WITH AN ORIGINAL RED COVER

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#17): MOM LOVE

"Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever." 

Unknown

FANDOM MASHUP (#3): 5 HEROES AND VILLAINS MIX-UPS

"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it." 

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

BEST COVERS OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2017 (Part II)

"Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it." 

Markus Zusak

BEST COVERS OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2017 (Part I)

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#10): A BOOK WITH A POC MAIN CHARACTER

"No mourners. No funerals."

BOOKMARK MONDAY (#16): FLOWERY SPRING

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." 

Pablo Neruda

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#13): ELEPHANTS

"If you do not have a memory like an elephant, leave impressions like one." 

Uknown

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#15): FICTIONAL JOBS I'D WANT TO HAVE

"That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it." 

Charles Bukowski

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#12): COOKIE JARS

"I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever."

 Crystal Woods, Write Like No One is Reading

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#9): A BOOK ABOUT FIRST LOVE

"My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations."

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#11): STATUE OF LIBERTY

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, “Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.” She’s got a baseball bat and yelling “You want a piece of me?”" 

Robin Williams

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#8): A BOOK THAT FEATURES A CHARACTER I LOVE TO HATE

"When you play a game of thrones you win or you die."

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#19): GRAPHIC NOVELS IN MY WISHLIST

"Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent." 

Dr. Seuss

BOOK TRAVELING THURSDAYS (#7): A BOOK THAT SURPRISED ME

"Even betting against myself, I could always find a way to lose."

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#18): MY FAVORITE GAME OF THRONES CHARACTERS

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written." 

George R.R. Martin

COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#10): BIG BEN

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show." 

Samuel Johnson

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#14): FAVORITE POLARIZING BOOKS

"It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation." 

Peter Ackroyd, Venice: Pure City