Sales of "To Kill a Mockingbird" up 123%

Sales of "To Kill a Mockingbird" up 123% on Amazon.UK, and the book has climbed as high as #25 on the site's Top 100 list (compared to #803 on Amazon.com) since David and Victoria Beckham said Harper Lee was the inspiration for their new daughter's name, the Daily Mail reported. 

Here's how the soccer legend and his former Spice Girl wife made their decision: "A lot of thought goes into our children's names and Harper was a name that we've loved for a long time for a couple of reasons," said David. "One reason is Harper's an old English name which we loved and one of the other reasons was Victoria's favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird and the author was Harper Lee. It's a very strong, passionate book. That's where Harper came from."

Any skeletons in your closet?

What reading skeletons do you have in your closet? Books you’d be ashamed to let people know you love? Addiction to the worst kind of (fill in cheesy genre here)? Your old collection of Bobbsey Twin Mysteries lovingly stored behind your “grown-up” books? You get the picture … come on, confess!

Teaser Tuesday!

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Do you ever stop a book midway?

If you’re not enjoying a book, will you stop mid-way? Or do you push through to the end? What makes you decide to stop?

Post Amazing Book Depression

I was reading about this phenomenon called P.A.B.D. which stands for Post Amazing Book Depression  and means: the over-whelming sad feeling one gets after finishing a great book. 

Yes, I feel this feeling a lot! 

However, if a book has consumed me and made me feel such a part of it's life and world, it's often quite traumatic to be done with it. I do resort to many of the tactics listed in the Weekly Geek post in order to deal with it.

Yes, I've been known to seek out other books with a similar theme. 

Yes, I make other people read the book. (I did this with the ever popular Twilight, Book Thief, Hunger Games, etc.)

Yes, I read other things by the author and follow them around the internet.

No, I don't go seek out fan fiction though. That stuff sort of makes me crazy. And no I don't re-read over and over and over. For the most part anyway. 


Some of the books that have caused this P.A.B.D. for me:

--The Whole Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

--The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

--Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

--The Goddess Series by P.C. Cast

-- pretty much any big epic fantasy
-- pretty much any book where I feel a huge character connection. It's hard to let them go!

How about you? What books have caused you P.A.B.D.?