Where Is Your Bookmark?

Thanks to everyone who voted in my August TBR List Poll! I never got around to posting the winner, but it was not even close.

Today I am featuring excerpts from the winning book, The King Slayer (The Witch Hunter, #2)  by Virginia Boecker, a historical fantasy novel.

A weekly meme where readers share the first sentence of the book they are reading and say what they think. Hosted by the wonderful Gillion Dumas of Rose City Reader.

I sit on the edge of the bed waiting, the day I've feared for months finally here. I look around the room, only there's not much there to distract me. Everything is white: white walls, white curtains, white stone fireplace, even the furniture--bed, wardrobe, and a small dressing table set below a looking glass. On cloudy days, this lack of color is soothing. But on the rare sunny winter day, such as today, the brightness is overwhelming. 

There's a gentle rapping on the door.  

My thoughts: I can see how overwhelming all that white could be--and how it would not help her mood given she is not looking forward to whatever it is she must face next. The opening is a quiet one, easing us in, especially given what is to come in the pages that follow.

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A weekly meme in which readers share a random sentence or two from page 56 or 56% of the book they are reading. Hosted by the wonderful Freda of Freda's Voice.

As we pass the table, I run a finger along the rim of a cold pewter goblet and think, just for a moment, how easy it would be to drop some poison in here. A salting of Belladonna in a cup or on a plate, just a single taste and it would be over in a five-minute show of spasms and screams, a slowing heart and slowing breath. It would be easy. Easier, anyway, than what they were about to do.  [56%]

My thoughts: I haven't quite reached this moment in the novel (although I may have by the time you are reading this), but, let me tell you, things are tense and this scene confirms how much more tense things are about to get.


What do you think? Does this sound like a book you would be interested in reading? 

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Everyone has a favorite and then we also have something we dislike. Like a coin, there are two sides to every question. Each week, Carrie at The Butterfly Reads and Laura from Blue Eye Books ask participants to list what they like and don't like about that week's topic.

This week's topic is Ugly Cover With the Best Story/Gorgeous Cover With the Worst Story

I leaned on Goodreads heavily for help with this one because no books popped into mind instantly. Just looking at the covers of my top and lowest rated books, however, did the trick.

I read Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer in September of 2005, a year before I began blogging. I was keeping a reading journal at the time, however, and recorded some of my thoughts. Although the details are fuzzy, I remember how much I loved the novel. The cover itself does nothing for me, however. It gives no hint at what the book is about and the font and colors hurt my eyes.

I love the cover of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. Although normally I prefer the author's name to be smaller than the title. The photograph and contrast in the dark brown and lighter tones more than make up for it. The book left me disappointed when I read it just the same.

Have you read either of these? Can you think of a book whose cover you loved, but the contents left you disappointed? Or how about a book with a cringe-worthy cover that you ended up loving in spite of it?

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Every Friday Coffee Addicted Writer from Coffee Addicted Writer poses a question which participants respond on their own blogs within the week (Friday through Thursday). They then share their links at the main site and visit other participants blogs.

Where do you post your reviews besides your blog? Please list them all so perhaps we can find some new sites. (submitted by Elizabeth @Silver's Reviews)

In addition to posting my bookish thoughts on my blog, I also post them on the Goodreads site and sometimes LibraryThing, when I remember. I post links to my bookish thoughts on my blog's Facebook page and Twitter, although not the entire review.

What about you?

I hope you all have a great weekend! The Nutcracker ballet auditions are this weekend--so you know where we will be. Happy Reading!

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