Top Ten Tuesday

It's another freebie week this week so I'm going to pick a nice and easy topic because  as I mentioned in my last post I'm a very busy bee with Uni work at the minute! I'm going to do a split topic this week so ere are my:

Top Ten Five Most OCD-ish Book Habits:

1) I always read the authors note/dedications the second after I've finished the book and not before.

2) If there's a particular piece of writing I like, a phrase or some dialogue, I fold the bottom page corner, even though I hate the idea of folding a corner to mark where I'm up to.

3) I never ever write in my books. (I used to when I was little, every book I owned was marked as mine and now I hate the idea.)

4) I have to take a book with me pretty much anywhere it's socially accepted. (meaning you won't find me turning pages in a bar...but anywhere else, don't be surprised.)

5) Every new (or new to me!) book shall receive a cursory whiff. Nothing beats the smell of a book.

Top Ten Five Favourite Book Covers:
Note: There are countless numbers of beautiful book covers in the world, some which I one day hope to own, but these five are just some of  my favourite covers from my own collection, they don't have deep meaning nor do I have attachments to the artists, I just find them aesthetically pleasing.

1) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. For me, this image so contradicts the writing inside, I think that's why I like it.

2) Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk. (Hardback) I do love a dust-jacket that's part of the design inside.

3) Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk (I know, I know, but what can I say, I've admitted my love for him already!) I just enjoy looking at this. My eyes like it. 

4) Damned - Chuck Palahniuk - (Hardback) I'm not sure why I automatically thought of this cover, but I did. It is a pretty good representation of what you find inside I suppose, and I like that it's such a simple, almost childish interpretation.

5) The Lords & The New Creatures - Jim Morrison. This book is not a novel, it's a collection of Morrison's poetry and I like the cover simply because when I see it I can hear Morrison voice in my head bellowing "I am the lizard King. I can do anything."

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Series I Have Yet To Finish:

I'm really going to have trouble with this weeks topic, because I don't really read that many series, and if I do, I tend to finish them. I actually don't think I could make a list of 10 series I have read...With that in mind I'm going to have to change up the prompt to have anything to write about this week, so here's my...

Top Five Books I Have Yet To Finish:

1) Titus Groan (oh hey that actually is from a series!) - Mervyn Peake. I started reading this a few weeks ago and got about half way through before I put it down for a few days, after that I started a couple of new books and I just haven't got back into it yet.

2) The Complete Marquis De Sade, Vol.1 - Marquis De Sade, Paul J. Gillette. I bought this from Amazon after picking up an Angela Carter non-fiction at a charity shop called The Sadien Woman, where she discusses Sade's work. I bought the book more so to read and understand the criticism and theories on his work and understood that it was, shall we say, not for the light hearted? So I recommend neither of these titles if you are under 18, as they both contain mature content.

3) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks. I mentioned this in my mini-haul last week and haven't started it yet, though I'm excited to!

4) White Oleander - Janet Fitch. Same reason as the above!

5) Superman: Man Of Steel - John Byrne, Marv Wolfman, Jerry Ordway and Karl Kesel. A graphic novel, not a book, but I'll include it anyway! I'm a big Superman fan, he's my second favourite Superhero, not much to say about this really, other than I'm reading it currently. 

Maybe some of you should recommend me some series so that I don't get stuck like this again...