Art I Love [1]

I'm quite in love with *Arbetta on deviantART right now, specifically her Greek myth drawings, so I thought I'd share some of her work. Click on the image to embiggen, and the title underneath to go to the dA page. On the dA pages, she tells a little bit about each character, so if you want to find out more about the different Greek nymphs or goddesses, click a link.

"Underworld nymphs" - L to R: Orphne/Gorgyra, Minthe/Mente, Leuce, a Lampade

"(More) Greek nymphs" - L to R: Pleiade, Epimelide, Naiad, Aurae

"Hades Happy Family (chibi)" - L to R: Cerberus, Hades, Persephone, Macaria, Melinoe

"Thanatos and Hypnos" - Thanatos (white) is on the right, and Hypnos (black) is on the left.

"Charites" - L to R: Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia

"Six main chibi goddesses" - L to R: Hera, Aphrodite, Persephone, Demeter, Artemis, Athena

I love them all! But I think my favorites are the Charites and Hades' Happy Family. (Also, Hypnos is really kinda cute.)

Arbetta also has some stuff on her tumblr that hasn't been posted to dA, so here's some of that. Under a cut so the post doesn't get too long.

Clockwork Princess Cover Reveal!!

The cover was revealed here after Simon & Schuster made us work for it. The tag #ClockworkPrincess had to be tweeted 30,000 times before the full cover was revealed, but with every tweet a small piece of the cover was unveiled. It was less than two hours between when Cassandra Clare blogged about how to reveal the cover, and the full cover reveal. Along the way #ClockworkPrincess was a #1 Worldwide trending topic on Twitter. Below is all of The Infernal Devices covers together.

I absolutely LOVE Clockwork Princess's cover, and I love them all together, too!

I ♥ Trylle

I absolutely love this series by Amanda Hocking!!!! I first really discovered it when St. Martin's Griffin sent me an Advanced Reader's Copy of Switched. Before that the books were self-pubbed e-books, so they were on my to-read list, but pretty low on my want scale (b/c they were e-books, not b/c they were self-pubbed). I loved Switched, and my only disappointment was that, because I read an ARC, I had to wait longer before I could get Torn, which just came out today. I picked up Torn and am about 50 pages in, and so far I love it. I hope to finish it by the end of the day tomorrow, and then the wait for Ascend begins, which comes out April 24. A bonus is that each of the books come with an exclusive never-before-published Trylle short story. Also, aren't the covers just gorgeous!!

Description of Switched:

When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right.  She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel—all because of Finn Holmes.

Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her.  Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken…though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she’d ever admit.  But it isn’t long before he reveals the truth:  Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth—and he’s come to take her home.

Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that’s both beautiful and frightening.  And where she must leave her old life behind to discover who she’s meant to become…

And if you want, you can read an excerpt of Switched on Amanda's website and Macmillan's website.

*The Amanda Hocking link goes to her website, all other links go to their respective Goodreads pages, with the exeptions of the excerpt links, which go to where the excerpts can be found.*

**Also, WOW! I don't I have included so many links in one post before, EVER! ANYWHERE!**

My Current Obsessions

The reason I am up after midnight the day of exams is because of Tiny Tower. I started the game yesterday, and already I have 10 floors, and 20 residents, 1 of which is in his dream job. I have 4 apartment floors, a sushi bar, a bookstore, a planetarium, a soda brewery, and a laundromat in my tower. I really, really like this game.

I'm also really into Scramble With Friends, so much so that I got my mom, cousin, and aunt kinda addicted to it as well. I'm kinda good at it too, which makes me happy because I'm never really good at any type of word games.

Books Everywhere!!

I just spent 2 hours in Starbucks writing down all of the books that I have on my bookshelves. Then I counted them all up, and my total was 287. 287!!! I knew it was over 200, but I didn't expect it to be that high. I also have about 25 books sitting next to one of my book shelves as well.

*Blue bookcase is not up to date.

I Totally Love. . .

MERMAIDS!!

← Isn't she GORGEOUS?! She played Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Her name is Astrid Berges-Frisbey.

Also, you should always remember to. . .

(Pics should be linked, but not to the tumblr I found them on. So, go [here] [here] [here] [here] [here] [here] [here] [here] for the tumblr post where I found them.)