My Book Boyfriend: Jack Force

My Book Boyfriend is a weekly meme hosted by Missie at The Unread Reader, all about fictional boys who make us swoon. This week my book boyfriend is Jack Force from Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series. While I didn't love the books, Jack is definitely worth a swoon or two. 

About Jack
Full name is Benjamin Force, Jack is a nickname. He's blonde, athletic, graceful and "painfully" handsome.

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Note-worthy: Disney Princesses are the Best Role Models (Really!)

 
If you want to read my fangirling about the Disney princesses, head on over to The Uniblog, where I've written a guest post on how awesome they are. Coz, y'know, they're really awesome.

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Guest Post: Batman Primer Part III - Batman's Rogues Gallery

Crystal from pop culture website The Uniblog is back to continue her series on all things Batman. You can read Part I here and Part II here. Over to Crystal... The villains in Batman are what really set his world apart from that of most superheroes. They aren't generally very high-powered, they aren't looking to take over the world, and most of the time they are batshit (pun intended) crazy.

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Mag Monday: Follow The Roses in Fine Taste

This fashion shoot from online magazine, Fine Taste, is just dreamy. I want to live in it.



 

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Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

I was surprised at the strong reaction I had to City of Bones, the story of the mysterious underworld of New York City (no, not the mob - the paranormal). You see, it made me freaking mad.


I wasn't mad the whole way through, of course. At first, I felt kinda "meh", and wondered why everyone raves about the book so much - more specifically, the love interest, Jace Wayland (he just wasn't doing

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Reading Icons: Ava Gardner

Apparently, Ava Gardner once met J. R. R. Tolkien and didn't know who he was - but he didn't know who she was, either, so I guess that's fair. One writer she did know really well was Ernest Hemingway, whom she was good friends with. She starred in three movies based on his writing - The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Killers. Oh, and according to Wikipedia she also swam naked in

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Bookish Buys: Wear Your Book On Your Tee

I love novelty tees! If you're not afraid to declare your inner nerd to the world, there might be something here for you, too (BTW, click on the links to buy and/or see a wider selection)...



Lovespace





Dark Cycle Clothing



Out of Print Clothing



Sandra Grafik



Red Bubble



Gold Label (I bought this tee specifically to wear to the gym. Yeah, I'm cool.)

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My Book Boyfriend: Prince Lir

My Book Boyfriend is hosted by Missie at The Unread Reader. It's all about fictional boys who make us swoon. This week my BB is Prince Lir from The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. He starts out as a bit of a "marshmallow" - sweet and soft - but love transforms him into a hero; slaying dragons, defeating dark knights, and sacrificing everything to save his sweetheart. He's pretty lovely. I

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Review: Innocence by Kathleen Tessaro

I was excited to read this book, but sadly it fell a little flat for me.


A friend lent it to me because we share a mutual love of love stories, and after I made her read If I Stay (and she adored it), she insisted I'd love this one. The story definitely intrigued me - switching between timelines, it tells the tale of Evie as she is at 18 and at 33. At 18, she dreams of being an actress, is best

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Pash, Pick or Pass: Sookie Stackhouse's Boy Besties

Time to play Pash, Pick or Pass (a.k.a. Date, Do or Ditch) - a weekly game I feature where we pick from a random book trio and say who we'd pash (and dash), who we'd pick for a relationship and who we'd pass on all together.


The Contenders
Sookie Stackhouse's non-vamp friends...



Her brother, Jason


Her crush buddy, Alcide




Her boss, Sam
My Choices

Pash: Jason. The boy is

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Mag Monday: Alexander Skarsgard Covers All The Things

ASkars sure has been getting around lately (I, for one, am not complaining).


First up he's sitting pretty on the cover of GQ Style Germany. I don't understand a word, but somehow that doesn't matter...


Next he's looking like the BAMF he is on BlackBook.


Finally, he's asking me to come play with him on the cover of Wonderland (seriously - me, specifically).


Related: Anybody seen the

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On My Wishlist

On My Wishlist, hosted by Book Chick City, is a weekly meme that keeps track of the books we want! Here's what I'm currently coveting... 
 Summary: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. 
So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his

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Reading Icons: Fred Astaire

"Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live."- Roger Ebert

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My Book Boyfriend: Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy

My Book Boyfriend is hosted by Missie at The Unread Reader. It's all about fictional boys who make us swoon. This week my book boyfriend is perhaps my greatest fictional love - Mr Darcy from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I haven't chosen him in the past because, well, it's just so obvious, but I thought it was about time I devoted a post to him. I know he's a bit of a snob at first, but

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Giveaway: And the winners are...

Thanks to everyone who entered my first ever giveaway, celebrating reaching 200 followers! Chosen at random, the TWO winners are...


Raimy from Readaraptor and Susanna from SusieBookworm! Congrats! Both Raimy and Susanna chose a copy of The Princess Bride by William Goldman as their prize. Here's to True Love...

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Pash, Pick or Pass: Wuthering Heights

Time to play Pash, Pick or Pass (a.k.a. Date, Do or Ditch) - a weekly game I feature where we pick from a random book trio and say who we'd pash (and dash), who we'd pick for a relationship and who we'd pass on all together.

The Contenders
From Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights...



The (anti)hero Heathcliff (played by Tom Hardy in 2009)


The nice guy Edgar Linton (played by Andrew

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Mag Monday: Double Shots of Kristen Stewart and Ryan Gosling

This was me when I saw Kristen Stewart on the cover of the September issue of W (minus the blue fur):


I'm not a massive fan of hers - her acting annoys me, and she's uncomfortable to watch in interviews/on the red carpet - but holy smokin' hotness she looks amazing here. Love it.







Kristen is also on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week with Robert Pattinson, so I guess the hype

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Bookish Buys: Altered Books

I was browsing online today and came across these altered books from Abandoned Attic. They're pretty pricey, but also pretty damn amazing. Like a pop-up book for grown-ups.



Beauty and the Beast



Around the World in 80 Days

I also found this cute 'The Early Bird Catches the Bookworm' artwork from Gathered Together.



In a similar vein, I love these bookish garlands from Bookity.

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My Book Boyfriend: Gale Hawthorne

My Book Boyfriend is hosted by Missie at The Unread Reader. It's all about fictional boys who make us swoon. I've featured Peeta from The Hunger Games as my book boyfriend before, but I'm dedicating this week to Gale. I was pretty angry with him at the end of Mockingjay, but one of my friends is reading the series at the moment, and her swooning over Gale reminded me of how much I loved him in

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Pash, Pick or Pass: The Hardest Week Yet

Time to play Pash, Pick or Pass (a.k.a. Date, Do or Ditch) - a weekly game I feature where we pick from a random book trio and say who we'd pash (and dash), who we'd pick for a relationship and who we'd pass on all together. I've brought back the linky this week because there was interest in it last week, so feel free to create your own posts and link up!
The ContendersYou guys, I don't know why

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Note-worthy: I don't like sports, but I do love movies...

I've been a fan of Children of the 90s, a fun 90s pop culture/nostalgia blog, since way before I discovered the awesomeness that is the book blogging community, so when an opportunity to guest post there popped up, I jumped at it! I've written all about my fave 90s sports movies (coz while I hate sport, I've always loved sports movies; it may or may not have something to do with the

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Mag Monday: Emma Stone (Again), Paul Rudd and Glee

I feel like this feature is dominated by Emma Stone every second week - I can't help it, she's getting around these days (and that's a good thing)! This is one of my fave Teen Vogue covers in a long time; Emma looks stunning (so healthy! so pretty! so bright!) and I'm super glad she's back to rocking red hair. She says some adorable things in the cover story about her career and working with

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Review: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

This book was so beautiful I wanted to hug it (in fact, I may have).

I looooved The Last Unicorn movie as a kid and watched it repeatedly, but I’m ashamed to say until recently I didn’t even realise it was a book. I ordered it as soon as I discovered it was, and finally got around to reading it this week. From the opening lines (“The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone... she

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On My Wishlist

On My Wishlist, hosted by Book Chick City, is a weekly meme that keeps track of the books we want! I have a serious addiction to buying books, so hopefully by keeping track of what I want without actually purchasing (yet) I'll curtail my problem and see my TBR pile shrink a bit instead of growing faster than I can read. Here's what I'm currently itching to get...


Summary: Raised by an unstable

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Reading Icons: Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine played some super famous literary characters during her career - including Jane Eyre opposite Orson Welles' Rochester in the 1943 adaptation of Jane Eyre, and Mrs de Winter opposite Laurence Olivier's Maxim in 1940's Rebecca. I love watching her.

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Top Five: Places to Read

I'm not all that fussy about where I read. If a book is really good, I'll carry it around with me everywhere and read glimpses of it whenever I can. But like most bookish people, I have my favourite reading spots...


1. My parents' backyard. Living in an apartment, a backyard is a little luxury I love to take advantage of when I visit my mum and dad. It's especially good when the the weather is

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Bookish Buys: Spineless Classics

I love these pieces by Spineless Classics. They use the full texts of books in their designs and it's so effective. These are my faves:







See the full collection here.

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Review: Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan (a.k.a. The Fug Girls)

This was fun but a little disappointing.


I think it was a case of THE (Too High Expectations). Disappointment was probably inevitable because they were ridonkulously high. Go Fug Yourself is one of my fave blogs; Heather and Jessica are so damn brilliant and their blog posts are hilarious, intelligent and extremely witty. So when I found out they were releasing a YA novel, I was super excited -

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My Book Boyfriend: Edward Rochester

It's My Book Boyfriend time! This is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Missie at The Unread Reader, focusing on fictional boys that we wish were not so fictional. This week my book boyfriend is Edward Fairfax Rochester from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I love him for his passion, intelligence and general sexiness as well as the way he respects Jane and treats her like an equal. He's her

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Bookish Fun: Beel's Diareh

This new Tumblr cracks me up - check it out for regular updates on Bill Compton's Beel Cawmptuhn's innermost thoughts. Gold.

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Pash, Pick or Pass: The Princess Bride's Men

The Contenders
This week we're playing with characters from one of the best books ever (and, also, best movies), The Princess Bride. Westley and Inigo were obvious choices, but I had a hard time deciding who should round out the trio. I went with Humperdinck in the end because he's the only other (kinda) contender for Buttercup's heart. So, presenting you with this week's options:



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