COVER CHARACTERISTIC (#15): CLOCKS

"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting." 

Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY (#17): BOOKS FOR MY HOGWARTS HOUSE

"You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that." 

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

TOP 10 TUESDAY (#20): TRUE CRIME BOOKS I'VE RECENTLY ADDED TO MY TBR LIST

"The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there."

Geoff Green, Paying for the Past

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."