Get Lost in Literature

  My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . Today's theme is: Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From. Brian Jacques JK Rowling Gregory Maguire Charles De Lint Dan Brown Stephanie Meyer Mira Grant John Ajvide Lindqvist Walter Farley David Clement Davies

“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”   ― Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm Cormoran Strike and Robin are back in the second Robert Galbraith novel (whose last name I can never spell correctly the first time around). After solving the Lula Landry case, Strike's business is doing better; he's able to take Robin on as a permanent employee, he's got an apartment, and more clients than he can accommodate. Then eccentric Leonora Quine walks in. Her husband, a drama-addicted, erotic-horror novelist, has gone missing and she wants Strike to find him. He accepts the case of the missing writer, only to discover that Owen Quine's newest novel depicts his wife, friends and business associates as sexually depraved monsters; giving just about everyone motive to make the ...

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . Today's theme was "other stories," either Top Ten Favorite Movies or TV Shows! I went with my favorite TV shows because the movie list is way longer. 1.   LOST -- A plane crashes onto a mysterious island, leaving the survivors to fall prey to supernatural and scientific forces alike...  I fan-girled so hard, I nearly wet myself every season opener and cried for weeks after every season ender. The writing was superb, every episode full of little clues and mysteries and monsters, questions were answered just so the viewer would ask more. The casting was perfect. 2.   Breaking Bad -- A high school chemistry teacher, diagnosed with terminal cancer, realizes he's going to die and leave his family in debt. So  he invents his own meth-recipe and begins a crime spree to cover his medical bills...  The writing for this was smart, dark, and funny, all at once. A st...

I had a few TopTenTuesdays scheduled and for some reason they did not post, instead the reverted to drafts... I'm going to go ahead and post those manually because I did do them and, why the heck not. I randomly decided to abandon my current reads to read the new Robert Galbraith novel, The Silkworm ...Read it two days, it was so exciting, so I'm working on the review for that... Even though my Coming Soon list, shows Wicked is on its way, its going to be postponed again. I did download the 3rd book int the Silo Saga , only to find I'm not in the mood for sci-fi? I am having a  really weird summer.

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . Today's theme is: Top Ten Characters I Would Want With Me On A Deserted Island.     1. Jack Shepherd from LOST  because you never know when you need a hot doctor.      2. Daryl Dixon from  The Walking Dead because he's got mad survival skills.     3. Shadowfax from Lord of the Rings so I continue riding until I am rescued.     4 . Jasper Cullen from Twilight  because he could probably make me feel better until help arrives.     5, 6, 7, 8, 9 will just be Dr. Evil's Anonymous Henchmen (from  Austin Powers ) because we'd need food for the the vampire.     10. Hermione Granger from Harry Potter because when Jasper's food runs out and Daryl is getting sick of seagull stew, and they both start looking at Shadowfax like he's something good to eat, I'm sure Hermione can magic us right out of ...

Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey  In Wool , HH introduces us to a dystopian world where the survivors of the apocalypse are living in an underground bunker called a Silo. These survivors live in fear of the outside world which no longer supports life, even though they've been down there so long they no longer remember their own origin story. The seeds of doubt are sewn in Wool , as the main characters start to realize they've been lied to all along; leading to revolutions and revelations. Shift  is the totally creep-tastic sequel/prequel to  Wool .  The story starts before the construction of the Silos, introducing new and devious characters. Senator Thurman who'll save the world as he wants it to be, however he can, and his daughter Anna Thurman, who'll do whatever it takes to get what she wants. Donald Keene, a politician/architect who is asked onto a special classified project, and his wife Helen, who fears that the project is driving her husband insane. Thi...

Dropping in with a late quote from a book I've just marked finished, but haven't gotten the review live yet. This passage was too good not to share...Although I wonder, if it still reads the same when taken out of context. "The ghosts are watching. The ghosts are watching. They watch me stroll alone. corpses are laughing. The corpses are laughing. They go quiet when I step over them. parents are missing. My parents are missing. They are waiting for me to come home." Quotable Thursday  originally brought to you by  Bookshelf Fantasies .

This week I'm reading through Shift (Silo #2) by Hugh Howey, sequel-technically-prequel to Wool.  This part of the story provides a heartbreaking look into how the Silos came to be. "That word means something else, you know," his father had told him once, when Mission had spoken of revolution. "It also means to go around and around. To revolve. One revolution and you get right back to where you started." And Donald was verging on the sad realization that humanity had been thrown to the brink of extinction by insane men in positions of power following one another, each thinking the others knew where they were going. Quotable Thursday  originally brought to you by  Bookshelf Fantasies .

My picks for the Tuesday Top Ten, as invented by  The Broke and Bookish . Today's theme, is top ten favorite classics... I couldn't narrow down the list past eleven! War of the Worlds by HG Wells True Grit by Charles Portis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Black Beauty by Anna Sewell The Call of the Wild by Jack London Dracula by Bram Stoker The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty O Russet Witch by F. Scott Fitzgerald