Friday Five: Damon Salvatore

I'm Damon, Stefan's brother.

He didn't tell me he had a brother.

Well, Stefan isn't one to brag.

I just started watching The Vampire Diaries last week. I know – I KNOW – what took me so long? Well, I – like most everyone else – was on Twilight-vampire-overload. Interestingly enough, the ONE element missing from the Twilight Saga was: Damon Salvatore.

Can’t you see it? He’d be trying to kill Jacob, making fun of Edward’s diet (see quote no. 2) while telling him not to be so whipped, and rolling his eyes at Bella’s attempts at martyrdom.

Ah, Damon Salvatore. Cruel. Seductive. Tragic. And good with the one-liners.

1. Believe it or not, some girls just can’t resist my good looks…my style, and my charm…and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift.

2. Are you worried that one day, all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean surely they talk.

3. Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many... adjectives.

4. I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated.

5. I'm here to eat cotton candy and steal your girl.

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Off the Shelf Challenge!

The Off the Shelf Challenge, presented by BA Reading Challenges (which I discovered via YA author Mindi Scott’s blog), is to read those books you own copies of, but have never got around to reading.

Challenge accepted.

Level: Tempted

Here are the carelessly neglected (but REALLY wanted) books that I will be reading for the challenge:

1. The Clearing, Heather Davis
2. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
3. I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Sloan Crosley
4. House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney

And what books will you be reading for the challenge?

Healthy-ish Obsessions: YA Edition

This has been a great year for Young Adult literature as well as for YA authors – a lot to obsess about!

1. Let’s start with the obvious: The Hunger Games Trilogy. If you haven’t read it, start right now. Let the obsession begin.

2. ‘Dying-Girl-Lit’ or a genre of YA where the main character is evaluating life in a super-natural way.

If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Both are beautiful stories with surprisingly unpredictable endings :) Oh, and did I mention you won’t be able to stop talking about these books for days?
(Note: both Forman and Oliver have new books coming out in 2011, and my anticipation for Delirium and Where She Went is already in full-throttle mode).

3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 1) movie. Pass the popcorn.

4. Girl falling for her best-friend’s-boyfriend-books. The description might sound a bit shallow, but after you read (and I insist you must), Elizabeth Scott’s The Unwritten Rule, or Susan Colasanti’s Something Like Fate, you will understand the pure depth this type of story can contain.

5. Historical YA Fiction – Laurie Halse Anderson’s Forge (sequel to Chains), and Jennifer Donnolly’s Revolution – I read a tiny excerpt and I couldn’t stop thinking about it, let alone NOT rush home and read it. A-ma-zing.

What are you obsessing about??

Friday Five: Truman Capote

Truman Capote. For a few reasons: (a) The book I just finished (Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly) has a character named Truman; and (b) I quoted Capote on twitter and received some very interesting responses.




1. “All literature is gossip.”


2. “I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”


3. “Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.”


4. “Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.”


5. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”