Top 5 (03)

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1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme Larissa chose for the week.
2 - Mention her blog on the post and link back to it.
3 - Feel free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it below Larissa's post)
4 - After you've finished your post, add your link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the   
     Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post on Larissa's blog.

This week’s theme is Favorite Book Quotes!

1.     "Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
   
2.  "You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it."
   
3.  "The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that."
   
4. "Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein."
   
5.  "And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread." 

All such good good good books!  It was so hard to narrow it down, luckily my Goodreads quote page is stocked full!  Happy Reading!  And may the odds be ever in your favor! 

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Top 5 (2)

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This week’s theme is Best Books {Series} of 2010!

(I picked series that I read in 2010, not that were published in 2010 necessarily)

Rules:

1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme Larissa chose for the week.
2 - Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3 - Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it below Larissa's post)
4 - After you've finished your post, add your link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the   
     Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post on Larissa's blog.

It was really hard to think of my Top 5 series, mostly because I don't read that many series books.  But I did find 5, even if it was hard! Some I just discovered this year, and some are oldies but I love them still!

Of course I've got to start with Harry Potter.  I re-read all the books in the month leading up to the premiere of Deathly Hallows Part 1.  I must re-read at least one of the books every month, and they are still as great as the first time!

 This series, The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, I just found this year.  For one of my edu. classes we had to find a contemporary companion to a classic.  My classic was Alice in Wonderland, and I found these books simply through Google.  Definitely check them out; they are an amazing re-imagining, very hip and very exciting!  (Check out the soundtrack as well!)

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare is so fudgin' good, I'm aching to read the next book, City of Fallen Angels.  Clare's writing is phenomenal, it sucks you in and you can't let go.  For me this series is on the same par as Harry Potter, and I'm so glad that there is more coming!

 

This was another discovery for me, early 2010.  I read Shiver in February, and loved it!  Luckily, I didn't have to wait very long before Linger came out.  Forever rounds out the Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater, coming out in July 2011.  This is such an interesting canon for werewolves!  I love the origin story of Sam and Grace's relationship.  Go read them!

 Lastly, The Hunger Games series blew me out of the water.  Katniss is one of my favorite heroines in literary history.  Strong, courageous, but still with fear; she tries to hide her emotions but you can see her every decision is ultimately guided by them.  Add Peeta to the mix, and you have me bouncing with anticipation.  If you haven't read this amazing series by Suzanne Collins yet, get out from under your rock and buy them!

Well those are my Sunday Top 5!  Be sure to check out everyone else's at Larissa's blog, and drop me a comment below.

As always, Don't Forget to be Awesome!

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Top 5 (it's a little late...oh well)

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Books You Want for Christmas

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Rules:

1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme Larissa chose for the week.
2 - Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.
3 - Fell free to use the Feature's image (there is a smaller size version of it below Larissa's post)
4 - After you've finished your post, add your link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the   
     Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post on Larissa's blog.

 

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Been wanting this for awhile!  And now I have an ARC of Where She Went
(the second book) so I really need to read the first boo

The Chronicles of Vladimir Todd box set by Heather Brewer
I met Heather Brewer at NCTE, and I was captivated by Vladimir as a character.
He seemed so genuine, and it really made me want to read these books!

Rockabye: A Young Mom's Journey From Wild to Child by Rebecca Woolf
I read Rebecca's blog Girl's Gone Child and I've been wanting to read a
more in depth story of her evolution from party girl to nurturing mother.

War by Sebastian Junger
I have been slowly reading through all the literature on the
Iraq/Afghanistan War, and this is one of the premier books on
the subject.  Want so much!!





Sorry it's late, been out buying Christmas presents.  But better late than never!

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