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 fine, and with all his experience in the sack I'm sure he'd know a thing or two about pashing. But he's dumber than a bag of hammers and a box of rocks put together, so I couldn't deal with him for longer than that.

Pick: Alcide. Now that's a man. That scene with him cooking steak (for breakfast, of course) in season three of True Blood? MAN. Hot, hot MAN. The kind I'd want to keep around the house. I'm being selective, of course, and picking Alcide from the show/early books - coz he's a bit of a douche by the end. But for now he's all mine.

Pass: Sam. He just does not do it for me at all. In the books or the show. Pass!

Who would you pash, pick and pass?

PS Who do you want to play with next time?

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 trailer for Straw Dogs? It looks super creepy, but I may have to watch it just for this:

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 kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay. 

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. 

And she, for whatever reason, spares his life.

 

Reviewer that made me want it: Logan at Logan E. Turner

 

 

Summary: Port Fare, New York, has fallen into the clutches of true evil. The Dreser brothers have arrived with a scheme to increase drug sales in the area by whatever means possible. Seth Prescott is part of MET, Mobile Enforcement Teams, a branch of the DEA. He's been assigned to work undercover at Port Fare High, and things aren't going very well, until senior Maggie Brown enters the equation. He's harbored a secret crush on her from day one, and now that she is in the center of the case, he's trying to stay clear and objective while walking the line between business and unrequited love. 

Maggie is truly the poster child for Heroin Chic, complete with jutting bones and dark-ringed eyes, but is she an addict, or is there another reason for her appearance? She struggles with her feelings for Seth, fearing he is just another person who will eventually let her down, as everyone in her life has done thus far...

Seth and Maggie's romantic journey is one of humor, heartbreak, and self-discovery.  

 

Reviewer that made me want it: Somer at A Bird's Eye Review

Summary: Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

 

It can.

 

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

 

There is.

 

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

 

She's wrong.

 

Reviewer that made me want it: Aylee at Recovering Potter Addict

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

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 deep down he's amazeballs (it's true, I got that straight from Austen). Can you really blame the guy for being a bit standoffish when he's saddled with a name like Fitzwilliam?! Anyhoo, I love him for a bazillion different reasons, some of which include his tenderness, (hidden) passion, devotion, intelligence, protectiveness, sense of humour (yes, he has one) and his very large... estate. But most of all I love his connection with Elizabeth and the respect he has for her; the way he loves is amazing (even if his first go at a proposal is totally botched - hey, he comes good in the end!). He's been played by many actors over the years, some great, some average - but none more Darcysauce than Colin Firth!
 
Swoon-worthy Quotes

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." 

"If you will thank me, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you." 

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which had laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

PS It's not from the book, but I couldn't resist including this...

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...

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 Lincoln in 2009)

The diamond in the rough, Hareton Earnshaw (played by Jason Riddington in 1992)

My Choices

Pash: Hareton. I always feel so bad for the poor guy - he means well and he's treated so horribly by everyone. He just needs a little lovin'! And I'm more than happy to oblige.

Pick: Edgar. This is a bit of a no-brainer - he's handsome, sweet, rich, smart... what more could you want? Unless you're Cathy, who apparently just wants an abusive creep.

Pass: Speaking of abusive creeps - yep, I'd pass on Heathcliff! Even played by the wonderful Tom Hardy, Heathcliff freaks me out (though in Hardy's defense it may just be the fugly wig in that instance). Seriously, though, he's such a horrid character. But then, so is Cathy; they totally deserve each other.

Who would you pash, pick or pass?

Next time: Sookie Stackhouse's non-vamp boys - Jason Stackhouse, Sam Merlotte and Alcide Herveaux.

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 machine for Breaking Dawn is officially in gear. The cover is obviously a still from the movie, and I have to say it's a bit... blergh. Why does Edward look so scared? This is one of the supposedly hot honeymoon scenes, so why do they look so, well, cold? I know he's a vampire and all, but c'mon!

Although I guess I shouldn't be too picky, it's still better than this:

There are a bunch of new stills inside the mag too, including some cute chess playing and what looks like Bella's "little nudger" moment (*groan*):

But my favourite cover of the week is most definitely Ryan Gosling on Esquire. It is so freaking adorable - even more so because apparently it was his idea. It represents his two selves - the public one, and the real him. The rest of the shoot apparently illustrates recent dreams Ryan has had and his weird obsession with skeletons. The story that goes with it is awesome - I am so incredibly jealous of the journo who interviewed Ryan and got to spend a whole day with him, driving, going on rides at Coney Island and eating candy.

Related: If you haven't seen the Ultimate Ryan Gosling GIF Wall yet, you haven't lived.

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.

Lastly, these flowers from Scrapbooking Outside the Box are adorable! I wonder if they'd be hard to make...

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 the first two books. He's handsome, strong, responsible, caring and has a great sense of humour (this seems to get lost along the way through the series, sadly). So while I still love Peeta a little  more, Gale deserves some time in the spotlight...


Swoon-worthy Quotes

"I turn and see Gale has lifted Prim off the ground and she's thrashing in his arms. 'Up you go, Catnip,' he says, in a voice he's fighting to keep steady, and then he carries Prim off toward my mother."

"When he opens his arms I don't hesitate to go into them. His body is familiar to me - the way it moves, the smell of wood smoke, even the sound of his heart beating I know from quiet moments on a hunt - but this is the first time I really feel it, lean and hard-muscled against my own."

"He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the fire, and I close my eyes, soaking in his warmth. I breathe in the smell of snow-dampened leather and smoke and apples, the smell of all those wintry days we shared before the Games. I don't try to move away. Why should I anyway? His voice drops to a whisper. 'I love you.' That's why." 


*My Gale is played by Gregg Sulkin. I think Liam Hemsworth looks like an awesome Gale, but Gregg is how I pictured him in the book and I'm sticking with him for now.