Friday Link Dump: Clarissa Explains It All, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead

-There's going to be a sequel to Clarissa Explains It All - in book form! I'm excited.

-Buzzfeed lists the most iconic book covers of all time.

-Melina Marchetta discusses the On the Jellicoe Road and Saving Francesca movies with Hypable.

-Here's what famous authors looked like as teenagers.

 -I'm HANGING for new Game of Thrones, luckily only three more sleeps till season 3! In the

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The Movie Was THE WORST: The Host

Words cannot convey how bad The Host movie was. But maybe Gifs can!




I have to admit when I read the book about four years ago, I quite liked it. I thought the writing was an improvement on The Twilight Saga and the story was entertaining.




When I found out they were making a movie, I was moderately excited.




When I heard they cast Max Irons, I may have let out a little squee.




Still,

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Bookish Buys: Beautiful Bookplates

Inspired by this post on celebrity bookplates last week, I set off to see what's available to plebs like me. And I found so many pretty things...



Garden mail bookplates




Personalised bookplates




Sandcastle bookplate



Custom stamp

 


Harry Potter bookplates




Bookplates




Monogram bookplate




Animals bookplate




Custom stamp




Vintage bookplate

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Top Ten Books I Recommend The Most

Actually, I push books

 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It's so beautiful and exquisite and wonderful and all the amazing things.

2. Anything by Melina Marchetta. She is the best.
 
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen. A lot of people have read Pride and Prejudice, but I love Persuasion almost as much and not nearly enough people have read it.

4. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I also

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Friday Link Dump: Dizzie, Pink Penguins and Game of Thrones

Everything is Dizzie and nothing hurts.

-It's DIZZIE DAY. Well technically it was yesterday, but that was today in Australia. That totally makes sense.

-The bookplates of famous people are pretty awesome.

-Penguin has released a special range of pink Popular Penguins to raise money for breast cancer. LOVE.

-The NY Times names their fave book covers of 2012.

-Here's what Quentin

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Be My Guest: Bree from 1 Girl 2 Many Books

I visit Bree's blog pretty much every day. She's a super fast reader (I'm jealous of how quickly she gets through books!) and always has new, thoughtful and in-depth reviews up. She's made me want to read so many books - including Good Oil and Holier Than Thou by Laura Buzo, Speechless by Hannah Harrington, Mary Bennet by Jennifer Paynter, Paper Chains by Nicola Moriarty and The Wild Girl by

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Friday Link Dump: Bookish Manicures, Game of Thrones Videos and Cute Babies

-Mandee from Vegan YA Nerds has created a new blog dedicated to her book-inspired manicures. They're amazing.

-Mandee has also teamed up with Rey and Trinity for a brilliant podcast called Ladies of YA.

-Cuddlebuggery has a new feature: In 10 Lines. Their first micro-summary is for Hush, Hush. It's predictably hilarious.

-This is what Game of Thrones would have looked like if it came out in

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Review: The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

I don’t really know how to rate or review this book. I’m afraid I’ll be kicked out of the cool kid’s club* for not absolutely adoring The Queen of Attolia. I’m really upset that I didn’t,
because I was expecting to. I had super high expectations. Pretty much
everyone I know told me how amazing it is. How you only read the first
book in the series to get to this one. But I have to say, I

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Top Ten Books TBR In Autumn

I'm always a bit nervous about making these kinds of lists because inevitably, I read approximately none of the books I set out to get through. But it's a good reminder of what I've got waiting for me, at least. Here are some of the books I'm hoping to pick up this season:

1. Children of Liberty by Paullina Simons. I loved Simons' The Bronze Horseman trilogy, so I was excited when this

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Review: When You Were Mine By Rebecca Serle

I liked this much more than I thought I would.


Initially my interest was piqued by the new take on Romeo and Juliet - a modern adaptation from the point of view of Rosaline, the girl Romeo was desperately in love with until the moment he spotted Juliet. Having recently rewatched Romeo + Juliet and being put in an angsty teen mood, I decided to give When You Were Mine a go. But Rose was soon

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Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth

Well, that was disappointing.




When Divergent came out in 2011, there was a ridonkulous amount of hype around it. Every review I read said it was ah-mazing. Some said it was as good as or better than fellow YA dystopia The Hunger Games. Needless to say, I had very high expectations. They were definitely not met.

In an unspecified future, society has been divided up into five factions, with

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Friday Link Dump: The Golden Girls, Old School Slang and Lego Hogwarts

-Buzzfeed has an awesome round-up of bookish memes, games and other online fun.

-A Lego Hogwarts: I want to go to there. 

-Miniature houses built in to books are as adorable as they sound.

-This designer's matchbox-style edition of Fahrenheit 451 is amazing.

-This A-Z of 1920s slang is pretty nifty!

-Art history in GIF form. Brillaint.

-The Golden Girls around the world: still awesome.

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Be My Guest: Stephanie from Read in a Single Sitting

Read in a Single Sitting was one of the very first book blogs I discovered - and Stephanie was the first ever commenter on my blog! So I'm definitely honoured to have her as my guest today. Stephanie always posts insightful, thoughtful and in-depth reviews for a range of books, from The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum and Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery to We Need to Talk About Kevin by

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Top 10 Series I Want To Start

 1. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin. I'm obsessed with the Game of Thrones TV show and I hear the books are great. The only reason I haven't started is that they're soooo long and I don't have any time.

2. Wolfe Brothers by Markus Zusak. I worship Zusak based purely on The Book Thief, but I'd like to read his earlier works.

3. Delirium by Lauren Oliver. I find the concept of an

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Friday Link Dump: Game of Thrones Food and SVH Ghostwriters

The Game of Thrones cookbook doesn't contain as many, er, barbaric recipes as I thought it would. Bread and salt, mmm.

Book Thingo has an awesome write-up of the Harlequin Summit that took place this week. Meanwhile, Harlequin launched their new Community page at the Summit, check it out! 

A former Sweet Valley High ghostwriter reveals what it was like to work

Here are 25 famous writers

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