COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#14): FOOTPRINTS

"What kind of footsteps will you leave for those who follow you?"

Kathy Bee, Footsteps My Journey: The true story about the beloved poem Footprints In The Sand.

SEARCHING SATURDAY (#2): ‘C’ AUTHORS

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." 

G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#16): FAVORITE "MINOR" CHARACTERS

"Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?" 

Jacqueline Carey

FANDOM MASHUP (#4): 6 FAVORITE FICTIONAL INTROVERTS

"The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most." 

Shannon L. Alder

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."

TBR NON FICTION

• Hollywood Stories by Terenci Moix

• My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson (Poetry)

• The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place: The Art of Being Messy by Jennifer McCartney

• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diane Wynne Jones

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TBR GRAPHIC NOVELS

• A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 1 (A Song of Ice and Fire Graphic Novels, #1) by Daniel Abraham & George R.R. Martin

• Awakening (Monstress, #1) by Marjorie M. Liu

• Runaways Complete Collection 01 (Runaways the Complete Collection, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan, ...

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TBR STAND ALONES

• 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil

• 172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon

• About a Boy by Nick Hornby

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous by Alfred Hitchcock, Lucille Fletcher & Carter Dickson

• Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn

• Bag of Bone by Stephen King

• Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

• Black Lands by Belinda Bauer

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Buick 8 by Stephen King

• Candy by Luke Davies

• Caperucita en Manhattan by Carmen Martín Gaite

• Cold Fire by Dean Koontz

• Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde (Short Stories)

• Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers

• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

• Desperation by Stephen King

• Disforia by David Jasso

• Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

• Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst

• Echoes by Laura Tisdall

• Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

• Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

• Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley

• Generation X by Douglas Coupland

• Genie and Other Weird Tales by Alan Killip (Short Stories)

• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Han's Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (Short Stories)

• Heartless by Marissa Meyer

• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

• How to Talk to a Widower by Jonathan Tropper

• I Am Charlotte by Tom Wolfe

• Immortal by Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder

• Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

• Looking for Alaska by John Green

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

• Misery by Stephen King

• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• One Day by David Nichols

• Paper Towns by John Green

• Plan B by Jonathan Tropper

• Pod by Stephen Wallenfels

• Psicópata by Carles Quílez 

• Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakley-Cartwritght & David Leslie Johnson

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Room by Emma Donoghue

• Say Her Name by James Dawson

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

• Slasher Girls & Monster Boys by April Genevieve Tucholke, ... (Short Stories)

• Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

• Ten by Gretchen McNeil

• The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (Short Stories)

• The Book of Fours by Nancy Holder

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

• The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu

• The Cabin in the Woods by Tim Lebbon

• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

• The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

• The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

• The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki

• The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland

• The House of Thunder by Dean Koontz

• The Ice Twins by S.K.Tremayne

• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton (Poetry)

• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

• The Picture of Dorian Grey and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde

• The Princess Bride by William Goldman

• The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson (Short Stories)

• The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

• The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

• They All Fall Down by Roxanne St. Claire

• Torn by Cat Clarke

• Two Past Midnight by Stephen King (Short Stories)

• Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

• We Weren Liars by E. Lockhart

• Winning by Lara Deloza

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

• Zoe + the Demon Slayer by Neel Kay

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