Awesome book posters

Growing up, I was never allowed to have posters on my wall and because of this I have a special fondness for nice posters. When I came across these one I pretty much fell in love and knew I had to share.

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Postertext reproduces the text of the book, arranging the words to show a key event from the book. Posters already created include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Moby Dick and Alice in Wonderland – with more coming all the time. I can’t decide which one I like best…

…hi?

*walks up and knocks on screen*
Is anyone still out there?
So I have learnt three things from my self-hibernation.
  1. It was warranted – I have been so crazy busy that I hardly read a thing (sad).
  2. When going into hibernation, it’s probably a good thing to make sure you don’t have a heck of a lot of scheduled posts sitting there.
  3. I miss you guys! I miss JOMP and I miss book blogging. And of course, the moment I decide not to blog is when I want to.
So! Medium-sized story cut short: I’m back. I will DEFINATELY be light on reviews, but I’m back all the same and am looking forward to chatting to you guys again.

Friday Book Love

There are just too many pretty book pics out there not to share!

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Friday Book Love

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Musing Mondays

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Dear Musing Monday-ers,

If you’re a regular here at JOMP I’m sure you’ve noticed that my posts have becoming fewer and fewer over the past few months. Since finishing up at uni, and now finding work (yay!) I’ve found that my reading time – not to mention my blogging time – has all but dried up.

I’ve tried to ignore it, thinking that it would magically return to be, but sadly I don’t think it’s going to. So it’s with great reluctance that I’m putting JOMP on indefinite hiatus. Not to worry though, because Musing Mondays is returning to it’s original home over at Should Be Reading – head on over there now as of this week.

I’ll still be around and blogging on my general/crafting journal here – I can’t help myself, I don’t want to leave the book blogger world entirely. I can also be contacted directly via twitter.

I’ve loved blogging with all of you and hope to continue chatting with you in one form or another.

Love,
Rebecca

Friday Book Love

There are just too many pretty book pics out there not to share!

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Teaser Tuesday (May 18)

Teaser Tuesdays
Teaser Tuesday is  hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve  given!

 

Riordan - lightning-thief

If you’re reading this because you think you might be [a half-blood], my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mum or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan (1)

Library Days

I’ve been most quiet on the blogging front of late, as I’ve found regular work at the local high school, but I thought I’d take the chance to tell you all what I’ve been up to. Why? Because this week I’ve been working in the library!

I’m teaching at my old high school, so though I’m English trained, and don’t actually start my library training until next month, they’re being very kind to me and letting me cover for the librarian when she’s away. I’m coming to teaching with mixed emotions (let’s just say my childhood ideals were quite neatly dashed), but my days in the library are … *sigh* wonderful.

The librarian is very enthusiastic in her duties and so the library is a lovely one to work in with quite a nice little community of readers among the students with whom I’m becoming acquainted.

I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow when the “Reading Cafe” meets tomorrow. This is like a reading club that the kids can apply to, and they meet of a recess and lunch and have a hot chocolate and a biscuit as they read. I’m playing host tomorrow and so am very excited (wish I had this at school!). Now, off to pick what book to take with me…

Philip D Armour Philip D Armour Elementary School
(how cute is this library?!)

Musing Mondays (May 17)

Musing Mondays2Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about movies based on books…

What happens when you see a movie based on a book/story, especially one you’ve not read? Do you feel the need to track it down and read it?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

If I know a booky-movie is coming up I try to make sure I read it before it comes out, but sometimes I just don’t have the time or it sneaks up on me.

Last night we went to see the new Robin Hood and, after being hit multiple times for my gleeful bouncing, I left that theatre in full RH mode. I wanted to read the stories, I wanted to do some research on the time period; I basically went into full book/movie mode.

I was just wondering if this was just me?

Friday Book Love

There are just too many pretty book pics out there not to share!

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Musing Mondays (May 10)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the war books

Do you have to carve out time in your day for reading (due to work and other obligations), or does your reading just happen naturally? (Question courtesy of MizB)

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

Normally, I’d say no, I don’t have to set time aside for my reading. I was/am unemployed and act as a carer for my mother and so spend a fair amount of time in doctors waiting rooms etc. So my reading was done mostly in 10 minute increments, but I was usually guaranteed two or three of these sessions every day.

This past month I’ve managed to find some casual teaching work near to my home (man oh man I want to die – I feel like I haven’t slept!) and so POOF! there went my reading time! I think I’ve read maybe 20 pages in the past three weeks.

I’m sure it’s all a process, learning to find that balance, but who knows, I may have to set aside some time!

Friday Book Love

There are just too many pretty book pics out there not to share!

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 Source: Maggie Fortson

Teaser Tuesday (May 4)

Teaser Tuesdays Teaser Tuesday is  hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve  given!

 

Life at The Burrow was as different as possible from life in Privet Drive. The Dursley’s liked everything neat and ordered; the Weasleys’ house burst with the strange and unexpected. (37)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling

April Wrap Up

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Thank you readathon for getting my reading back on track this month!

Montgomery - Anne of Green GablesMurray - Poems to Live By in Uncertain TimesMontgomery - Anne of AvonleaKeyes - Flowers for Algenon

Butcher - Welcome to the JungleWalker - The Colour Purple

Rowling - Harry PotterShakespeare - Much Ado About NothingMyron - DeweyBennett - Uncommon Reader

Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye

 

Total Books Read: 11
Total Pages Read: 2, 929 
2010 Books to Date: 31

Musing Mondays (May 3)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the war books

Do you frequent second hand book stores? Have you ever bought a book home only to find anything interesting within their pages?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

I’ll confess, I’m asking this question, purely so I can share this story. It made my week and I just wanted to tell you all.

About a year ago, a friend and I went into the city and did the Town Hall book shops – Kinokuniya, Galaxy Books, Kings Comics, and Elizabeth’s Bookshop. It was a great day and I was very happy to come home with my little pile of finds. Among them was a copy of Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things which I’ve been reading on and off ever since (I like to make short stories last).

This week, I was flipping through it trying to find something for my brother when I found … this:

Left Behind

Absolutely the best second-hand book find ever! Especially since I only paid $10 for the book in the first place!

Mini-review Catchup #1

I’ve decided the best way to catch up would to just do some mini-reviews over the week or so.

 

Ariel – Sylvia Plath
81 pages; published 1965

This was my first exposure to Sylvia Plath, which I was rather surprised about – you’d think I would have come across her in one class or another. I absolutely LOVED Plath; I adored the beautiful melancholy of all her poems. Favourites from this collection include: The Applicant, Lady Lazarus, Tulips, A Birthday Present, and Years. 4/5

 

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
356 pages; published 1996

Wells - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodFrom the first time I saw this movie I was a huge fan – and when I learned it was based on a series of books, I very quickly tracked down the first one Little Alters Everywhere. This is the second in the series, and the one the movie was based on – though if you’re a fan of either the book or the movie I’d highly recommend reading the rest. Told through a series of interconnected stories, Divine Secrets throws you into the deep end of a family and leaves you to move with the eddies that constantly churn between them. 5/5

Wordless Wednesday

Voltswagon Convention

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser TuesdaysTeaser Tuesday is  hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve  given!

 

Salinger - The Catcher in the RyeIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but i don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, my parents would have about two haemorrhages  apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. (1)

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

Musing Mondays (April 26)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the war books

With yesterday being Anzac Day, I thought I’d ask a theme question this week. Are you a reader of war books? And if so, do you have any favourites?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

I am a fan of war books, actually – though I hesitate to use the word ‘fan’ when the subject matter runs to the horrific.

I think the first war-time book I ever read, or at least can remember reading was Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. I read it while still in primary school and it was the first time I really started to understand what war meant on an individual level – up until then war had simply been a concept talked about during history.

I have also enjoyed John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Morris Gleitzman’s Once, and Geraldine Brook’s March – but these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure you’ll all remind me of the ones I’m forgetting.

Lest We Forget

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They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted. They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Wordless Wednesday

Dripping Glass

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays Teaser Tuesday is  hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve  given!

 

Gaiman - Fragile ThingsShe seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon.

You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. (207)

Fragile Things – Neil Gaiman

Musing Monday (April 19)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the ‘best’ books'.

Last week I had you all to suggest your top 5 books – and I was surprised by just how different all your choices were! There’s no real question this week, except to look over the list and consider it. Do you agree with the choices? Is it more worth of a “Best Book” title?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

Books that had more than one vote were listed first, then they were listed alphabetically by author.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Lee, Harper

6

Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane

3

The Chronicles of Narnia

Lewis, C.S.

3

The Time Traveler's Wife

Niffenegger, Audrey

3

Harry Potter (series)

Rowling, J.K.

3

The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus

3

Little Women

Alcott, Louisa May

2

Hunger Games (series)

Collins, Suzanne

2

The Shining

King, Stephen

2

Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, L.M.

2

Lord of the Rings

Tolkien, J.R.R.

2

The House of the Spirits

Allende, Isabel

Sense and Sensibility

Austen, Jane

Hasse Simondochter

Beckman, Thea

The Manual of Detection

Berry, Jedediah

The Moon Below

Bickmore, Barbara

Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray

Jane Eyre

Bronte, Charlotte

Arthur (series)

Brown, Marc

A Scandalous Freedom

Brown, Steve

Cold Saddy Tree

Burns, Olive Ann

Enders Game

Card, Orson Scott

Gifted Hands

Carson with Cecil Murphey, Dr. Ben

Kushiel's Dart

Carey, Jacqueline

Graceling

Cashore, Kristen

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cather, Willa

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Seventeenth Summer

Daly, Maureen

The Maze Runner

Dashner, James

Loose Change

Davidson, Sara

Life is So Good

Dawson, George

Libra

DeLillio, Don

Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles

Going Too Far

Echols, Jennifer

Invisible Man

Ellison, Ralph

Middlesex

Eugenides, Jeffrey

One for the Money

Evanovich, Janet

The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Likeness

French, Tana

Outlander

Gabaldon, Diana

American Gods

Gaiman, Neil

Memoirs of Cleopatra

George, Margaret

Old Yeller

Gipson, Fred

Lord of the Flies

Golding, William

An Abundance of Katherines

Green, John

Looking for Alaska

Green, John

Paper Towns

Green, John

The Boleyn Inheritance

Gregory, Philipa

The Eden Diet

Hancock, M.D., Rita

An Eye for an Eye

Hannon, Irene

Switch

Heath and Dan Health, Chip

Catch-22

Heller, Joseph

Losing the Moon

Henry, Patti Callahan

Goblin Quest

Hines, Jim C.

Never Let Me Go

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Fire and Hemlock

Jones, Diana Wynne

The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster, Norman

Nancy Drew (series)

Keene, Carolyn B.

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Kidder, Tracy

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera, Milan

She's Come Undone

Lamb, Wally

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Larsson, Stieg

The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

Larsson, Stieg

Devil's Bride

Laurens, Stephanie

Shutter Island

Lehane, Dennis

Shoot the moon

Letts, Billie

Dare to Dream

Littauer, Florence

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Lockart, E.

The Light Princess

MacDonald, George

16 Lighthouse Road

Macomber, Debbie

Daughter of the Forest

Marillier, Juliet

Son of Shadows

Marillier, Juliet

The Necklace (series)

Martin, Kay

Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman

Moore, Beth

Sula

Morrison, Toni

The Forgotten Garden

Morton, Kate

Mozart's Sister

Moster, Nancy

Cat on the Edge

Murphey, Shirley Rousseau

The Last Surgeon

Palmer, Michael

First to Die

Patterson, James

Sunday at Tiffany's

Patterson, James

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Pearson, Mary E.

Life as We Knew It

Pfeffer, Susan

Boneshaker

Priest, Cherie

His Dark Materials (series)

Pullman, Philip

The Lightning Thief

Riordan, Rick

Ride the Wind

Robson, Lucia St. Clair

The Sparrow

Russell, Mary Doria

The Forest of Hands and Feet

Ryan, Carrie

Once an Arafat Man

Saada, Tass

Walk Away the Pounds

Sansone, Leslie

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare, William

Frankenstein

Shelley, Mary

Beneath a Marble Sky

Shors, John

The Corner

Simon, David

I Capture the Castle

Smith, Dodie

The Changeling

Snyder, Zilpha Keatly

Raven Stole the Moon

Stein, Garth

East of Eden

Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Shiver

Stiefvater, Maggie

The Help

Stockett, Kathryn

These Granite Islands

Stonich, Sarah

The Hobbit

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Thief

Turner, Megan Whalen

It's All Too Much

Walsh, Peter

Tipping the Velvet

Waters, Sarah

Brideshead Revisted

Waugh, Evelyn

Uglies

Westerfield, Scott

A Certain Slant of Light

Whitcomb, Laura

To the Lighthouse

Woolf, Virginia

My Enemy's Cradle

Young, Sara

The Pigman

Zindel, Paul

Wordless Wednesday

Tethered (2)

Musing Mondays (April 12)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the ‘best’ books'.

There’s been some discussion on my blog this week about what should or shouldn’t make a ‘best' books’ list. What elements do you think lands a book in that ‘best’ category? Think of your top 5 best books and tune in next week to see the collated list.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

Okay, I know I asked the question, but can I take it back? It’s too hard!

I suppose for me, for a book to put into the ‘best’ category, it needs to be well written, have a good story, characters, be original … but that seems obvious.

When it all comes down to it, I guess the ‘best’ books are the ones that , once I’m finished, I just HAVE to go tell someone. My book friends, my non-reading family, the cat – anyone who’ll even pretend to listen.

On the other hand, there’s something to be said for an old favourite. I’m not likely to run to Wendy and say “Oh my gosh, I just read Little Women, you HAVE to read it!” I’ve read it a hundred times, I know she already loves it, so there’s no need – but this doesn’t diminish it’s status high on my ‘best’ list.

So I guess it’s a bit of both.

  • Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
  • Anne of Green Gables (series) – L.M. Montgomery
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenigger
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

Readathon Wrap-up

24 Hours Readathon

I can’t say that I read as much as I would have liked this readathon – my time being punctuated by some good old fashioned family interruptions – but I had fun all the same. I do so enjoy the dedicated reading time the readathon affords.

I had no real aims except to try to meet last years results (which I did not) and get through some books from my tbr pile (which I did).

Butcher - Welcome to the Jungle Keyes - Flowers for Algenon Montgomery - Chronicles of Avonlea Walker - The Colour Purple

 

I’d like to thank all the AMAZING cheerleaders who came to visit over the past 24 hours – you’re all the best cheerleaders I ever did see!