Team Puck/ Team Ash

So I finally read The Iron King by Julie Kagawa that it seems like EVERYONE is talking about and now and I’ve noticed that like Twilight before it there are Team Puck and Team Ash bloggers. Not quite sure why since we all know how Meghan feels about Ash but I have to admit that Puck is an extremely interesting character.

I don’t think I can actually pick a side in this argument even if I do adore Puck (no, I don’t exactly see him as Seth Green though it’s closer than anything else):

Cause I am Switzerland
The neutral starts here
I'm gray matter
Between a field of snow
And a river of sun
I'm content to be in the middle of
My two loves

Lyrics slightly adapted from Switzerland by the Bella Cullen Project

So do you have a favorite or are you just Team Grim? Oh and have you checked out this great fan video?

Here's to 3 Years!

385 reviews. That’s quite a lot huh? A little over a year! It’s actually taken me 3 years to reach that many… yep! Today’s The Movieholic and Bibliophile’s 3 year blogiversary! I still can’t believe I’ve been at this three whole years now. Blogging (sometimes even reading) and I have had our ups and downs but I seem to always come back.

I did an extensive post last year for my second blogiversary talking about some of my first reviews and commenters. I think I’ll talk a bit about some of my favorite reviews this year. One of the first was The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson which is surprising because I didn’t actually like the book all that much! Oh and my review for Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, Wondrous Strange by Lesley Livingston, Inkheart by Cornelia Funk (I still haven’t managed to get around to finishing that story…), and the ones I did that are Wonderland related like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, and The Looking Glass Wars & Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor.

Thank you again loyal readers for standing by me for so long and I love my new readers too. Here’s to many more years reviewing and blogging!

Recently I’ve been thinking of doing some re-reading of Stephen King’s books (The Stand is my favorite!) and I’d love everyone’s input about which one they’d like to see me review. Oh, and I occasionally re-read books in a series of which I have already reviewed later ones, should I go back and review the earlier ones?

Musing Monday- Favorite Genres

This week’s musing asks:

Name your top 2-3 favorite genres (the ones you read most from).

The top 3 genres I read are paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and YA. I love authors like Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison, Rachel Caine, Kelley Armstrong, etc. If it has faeries or vampires in it, you can pretty much put me down as a fan!

Happy Father's Day!

To all good dad's everywhere:

Teaser Tuesday- The Iron King

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
  
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page


• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

THE IRON KING BY JULIE KAGAWA

"You really are Puck?" I said finally. The Puck? Like in the stories?
Robbie/ Puck gave a little bow. "The one and only."

Musing Monday- Reading Family Members

This week’s question was inspired by an online book group MizB belong's to…

Who in your family (both immediate & extended) are readers, and who are not?

The only person who read in my family while I was growing up was my great-grandmother and that is where I got my love of reading. According to family tales, I would walk up to anyone who came to the house and ask them to read to me. A couple of years before I moved away from home I did get my mom hooked on reading finally though. Unfortunately my husband doesn't like reading very often. He'll occasionally pick up a book (he loved Stephen King's Dark Tower series) but it's very rare. That's why I enjoy all of these book blogs so very much!

Séance and the Ouji Board

Has anyone here ever attented a séance? Ghosts have always fascinated me and I started off reading every collection of stories I could get my hands on at an early age (I even memorized a few that I wish I could remember who the authors are). Yet something about séances has always bothered me… it’s probably the Ouji board (yes, I know some séance’s are conducted without one but not many for the most part).

I can’t even tell you why those things freak me out but I suspect I saw a special ghost episode on Unexplained Mysteries or something as a kid (that’s where I saw the thing about possessed Raggedy Anne dolls I believe… needless to say my “lifesized” one was shoved into the corner of my closet until I could get rid of it!) about them being ways for demons to get through or something of that nature. Now I’m not saying I believe that but I’m 23 years old and I have never touched a Ouji board my entire life.

Supposedly, people have been driven mad back when it was first popularized as a novelty toy (they were original known as talking or spirit boards and have been around for centuries) or “evil spirits” came through. That caused several horror films to be made with the Ouji board as their central theme; Witchboard for example, I tend to avoid these. Other times the board has been said to predict things like major disasters. Vampires, ghosts, werewolves? Bring it on, but Ouji boards (and zombies) freak me out!



The only time a Ouiji board didn't freak me out:

Teaser Tuesday-Dark Champion

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.


• Let the book fall open to a random page.


• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page
  
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

DARK CHAMPION BY JO BEVERLEY
The woman's indulgent tone was infuriating, but it wouldn't be fair to blister her for it. It was the way everyone had always treated her- with proud, kindly indulgence. Imogen of Carrisford, the Flower of the West, her father's greatest treasure.

Teaser Tuesday- The Bachelor Preferred Pastry

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.


• Let the book fall open to a random page.


• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page
  
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

THE BACHELOR PREFERRED PASTRY BY SHIRLEY JUMP
Clearly, this was one woman who didn’t need a knight in shining armor. He suspected, in a pinch, she’d knock the knight off the horse and take the reins herself.