I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I'd come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere.

The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind the greater good.

I've had cats lay directly on my book, but that's less distracting than my puppy who wines as I read.

Library trip today! It's always hard to know where to start with so many new books to read...so I'll just continue with my most recent series, Her Royal Spyness.

Sometimes when I'm reading it becomes glaringly obvious that the author is much smarter than I am. Which leads me to feel simultaneously sad that I will never be as smart and hopeful that something will rub off from reading their work.

Starting my next book off right with Tea Rex.

I thought reading would distract me from politics but I can't seem to get away even in fantasy worlds...

A review I had read said the narrator was too cynical, but my cynical self loves it!

"It always seemed to me that a girl like that, a girl who worked hard at being what she was supposed to want: flowers, good jewelry, a nice house, holidays in the sun, and a man who would love her and put his heart into taking care of her for the rest of their lives. Girls like Fiona are complete mysteries to me; I can't imagine where you would start trying to figure them out, and that makes me nervous." Now I know why I'm single.

"Every time you say no to your big brother, God kills a kitten."
Thanks a lot Frank Mackey, now I have to listen to my brother.

My books for October along with The Likeness, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, the Night Circus and The Graveyard Book