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Follow My Book Blog Friday

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Q: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don’t like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it!
Things that bug me about books...umm....

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I know. Pick me.

Over controlling boyfriends!
I seem to be reading far to many young adult novel lately that have male 'heroes' who seem to be quit happy with making every single decision for their girlfriends as though they cannot think for themselves. And the girlfriend is OK with this! He takes away all of her decision making ability and she will just go along with it. What! Really! Unhealthy relationships much. And then let us not forget the boyfriend leaving the picture for a little while and girly trying to top herself because she can't live without the love of her life. Uh, it annoys me so much I am getting agitated just thinking about it. How the fizz is anything like that healthy. A relationship should be equal, not one person and oh, hey, yeah, you're here too.

Rant over. Wow, feel kind of better now, very therapeutic.

Follow Friday

Follow My Book Blog Friday


Follow Friday is a weekly Blog Hop that can be found over at parajunkee.com. - who has one of the most funky blog designs I ever did see (just thought I'd add that :))


Q: In light of 11.11.11 and Veteran’s Day tell us about your favorite soldier and how he or she is saving the world. Fictional or real life.

Hmm...I don't know any real life soldiers. The only soldier I ever 'knew' was my biological father who went AWOL from my life when I was a baby so yeah I don't really have a high opinion of him. 

Hmm...in fiction... Sorry but I don't read war/battle/whatever fiction. 

Wait. Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. Now HE was an officer and a gentlemen if ever there was one :)

TGIF, Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop

It's the weekend again everyone! Lets get this party STARTED! *crickets* moving on...

TGIF
TGIF is a weekly meme that can be found over at greadsbooks.com. Every week you can find a question that is bound to get you thinking.

Question - Have you ever read a book and not wanted to review it? Are some books too personal that we want to keep our thoughts our own?

I definitely agree that there are some books that can just touch the right (or wrong depending on how you look at it) nerve that it makes it seem like that book has been written for you and only you.  

One book that I have not been able to bring myself to review or even re-read since I first read it when I was about 11 is A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh, it has got to be one of the most heartbreaking books that I have ever read. It centres around a village during the time of the plague and how the disease came to the village in 'a parcel of patterns' that were delivered to the lady of the manor. 

TRULY DEPRESSING STUFF. But I would recommend it! (Yeah, I'm weird that way) But only if you don't mind having a case of wobbly throat syndrome. 

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This weeks topic - What’s the LONGEST book you’ve ever read?


I would say Les Miserables but I skipped most of that to read the good bit so that my be a bit of a cheat. So I'll say Outlander (or Cross Stich UK) by Diana Gabaldon and it sits at 850 pages.


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Question - If you could write yourself a part in a book, what book would it be and what role would you play in that book?

I LOVE fantasy - can't get enough of it. So...if I was written into a book I would want to be something magical...and ELF. Yip, I'll go with that. I warrior elf lady with a bad guy love interest ;). And great choice in leather clothes - obviously (goes without saying really doesn't it). So basically the opposite of what I am in real life lol. 

TGIF - Author Block Party

TGIF is a weekly meme that can be found over at greadsbooks.com. Every week you can find a question that is bound to get you thinking.

Question - If you could gather a handful of authors to hang out with, who would you choose?

Only a handful....

*cracks knuckles*

Well...first of all (before having any kind of party) I would make sure all plastic bags and sharp implements are out of the room building. I am not having anyone having an 'artistic' difference of opinion (you know, fight) and causing someone each other an injury. 

Right on with the invites. 

M.C Beaton - author of the Agatha Raisin series and The Travelling Matchmaker books. 

Mercedes Lackey - need I say more 

Wen Spencer - author of the Tinker novels

Lisa Mantchev - yeah...you guys saw that coming a mile away didn't you ;)

Robin McKinley - author of The Blue Sword and Pegasus

Kriten Britain - author of the Green Rider series

and last but not least...

Laurie R. King - author of the Mary Russell novels

All my authors are alive :) I will have a zombie tea party later :)

I have also realised they are all women...hmmm...I think I will have to widen my reading a little bit. 

Murtagh is My Book Boyfriend

My Book Boyfriend is a weekly meme hosted by The Unread Reader where - you got it - we get to pick the fictional heart throb of our dreams and sigh over him (metaphorically speaking) by having a good old mushy post.

Now, this may seem strange but I am currently in love with Murtagh from the book Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. He is gruff and tough but he is a right softie (don't tell him I said that though, he wouldn't be too pleased with that description I don't think). He shows he cares through his actions, not his words.

Sorry guys, but I figured Jamie has a big enough fan group...

So...I have though about this and there is the image I have in my head. Yes, I know it may be NOTHING like what he is but what the heck. It's my head and I can have him look however I want. *sticks out tongue defiantly*

Just imagine him a bit...gruffer looking and with shallower cheeks too maybe. Hard I know, but try. 

There isn't much by way if quotes were Murtagh is concerned (as he isn't even one of the main characters) it is his actions that made me like him.

TGIF, Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop

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Book Love: Do you share your books with others? Who was the last person you sent a book to?

I do share my books with others but I shiver when I DO. My books are my babies and lending a book to someone is like…letting my child be kidnapped. I don’t know if it is going to be treated well, fed, watered…loved. I hate it. But I do it because I love my friends.

The last person I sent a book to was a fellow blogger last month as I was taking part in the Random Acts of Kindness hosted by booksoulmates. Unfortunately I am skint and can hardly afford books for myself so it will be a while until I can gift a book to someone else.

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Q. What are you doing to prepare for an upcoming zombie apocalypse and/or the return of Mel Gibson to the silver screen? (Both of which could be terrifying.) 

There’s an upcoming zombie apocalypse! Why wasn’t I told *grabs brown paper bag and tries to stop hyperventilating).

It stands to reason that there is no point in me trying to prepare as, if life were a film, I would be the extra in the red Enterprise uniform getting bludgeoned by the Klingons and in the event of a zombie apocalypse I’m the one getting eaten while the heroes drive of in a truck reaching desperately out to try and grab my hand and MISSING! So is my life.

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Share your favorite post from the last month and tell us why it's close to your heart!

I don’t really know. Last month is the one time I have posted so many things in one month – 31 posts!! But I would say that the post on My Favourite Love Triangle may be my favourite post. Because a) I am thinking of doing some more love triangles b)I am so excited about this series of books!

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QN - "Are you going to Book Expo America (BEA) and/or the Book Blogger Convention (BBC) this year?"

Sadly no :(. My finances lately can't even stretch to getting new books, so a plane ticket from the UK to the US would be stretching it a bit I think. I will enjoy reading about everyone else experiences though. 

Booking Through Thursday - Coming to a Theater Near You

If you could see one book turned into the perfect movie–one that would capture everything you love, the characters, the look, the feel, the story–what book would you choose?

How unfair is that! Only one. Crumbs. Think. think, think! I was desperate for Ella Enchanted to be turned into a film and then it was...and I saw it...and the book had been murdered! So right now I would love to see Ella Enchanted turned into a film worthy of the magical book that it was and not some crazy teen orientated chick-flick.