millionsmillions:

This was the most popular book in 2012’s Year in Reading. Find out which others followed closely behind in Nick Moran’s Year In Reading: Wrap Up

I have only read 35 books (4 were comics) this year, but Gone Girl exceeded all expectations. Read. It. Now.

mothernaturenetwork:

Raising children with books may up their IQs later
Raising a child in a mentally stimulating environment has been linked to developing a smaller brain cortex, which in turn is linked to higher IQ.

linzyslikesandloves:

I am so excited about this book. I cannot wait to see where she will take the series!

He’s actually a male writer. Surprise!

My new favorite, totally underrated author. Me Before You is a beautiful book, but you’ll need a box of chocolates to cheer you up after reading it. Not recommended to readers who are depressed, broken, hurting, or with hyperactive lacrimal glands.

betterbooktitles:

Happy Halloween from Better Book Titles!

Check out the book version: “How Not to Read”

booklover:

I rarely like romance novels and One Day has become one of them. Actually, it would be a mistake to consider David Nicholl’s novel as a romance novel. There are some unrealistic twists but in most parts One Day seemed one of the most realistic and believable books in all that mess of “romance” novels.

It mostly narrates the story of two people in twenty years. He focuses on their expectations, disappointments, struggles, relationships in life in twenty years time and that was what really impressed me in this book. I loved the story of these characters Emma and Dexter especially in the sense that the expectations of characters in life vs the expectations of the people around them or the neverending “society against me” struggle. I saw it as a character novel than a romance novel in many parts and the development of characters, especially Emma, was what impressed me more in the book than the romance and friendship between Emma and Dexter because you may even find their relationship annoying if you read the book only for the sake of romance. I can’t say Emma has become one of the characters that I related most completely, but at least she is one of the closest ones.

The writing has turned out to be good and was beyond my expectations as well. We should be thankful for David Nicholls for his great fiction. If he did not make that last manoeuvre for the sake to impress readers in the end, I would have loved the book more. Yet, as I was expecting a cheesy romance novel, One Day gave me much more as a book and I am glad to have read it and met these characters.

4/5

I tremendously enjoyed their conversations. They’re witty, hilarious, thoughtful and bittersweet.

“Call me sentimental, but there’s no-one in the world that I’d like to see get dysentery more than you” 

“You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle” 

“I’m not the consolation prize, Dex. I’m not something you resort to. I happen to think I’m worth more than that.” 

ebrink7:

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (x)

Now, I remember, I still haven’t finished the second book. 

bookriot:

We *knew* this was a Real Thing.

(via Book hangover)

Seriously, I don’t know what to do after Gone Girl. I finished that bitch in one sitting.