Quote of the Day #5 - Katherine Graham

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Writer Katherine Graham led The Washington Post for two storied decades and wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Personal History.

Don't Judge a Book by its Cover.. Or do.

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This Sunday my boyfriend and I went for a walk that eventually led us to a Barnes and Noble. We, of course, went inside, even though it's a little bit like torture to see all those books and not be able to buy any. But while Mike looked through the books, I gave myself a different task: find and photograph the prettiest book covers to share on Occupy.

So if I was to buy a book based solely on its cover, here are my 5 picks from what I saw this weekend:

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel, by Anthony Marra

Two doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this majestic debut about love, loss, and the unexpected ties that bind us together.

Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel, by Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom. Then Bernadette disappears. To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel, by Carol Rifka Brunt
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them.

Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain, by A. Lee Martinez
Emperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine.

Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), by Voltaire
This new edition of Voltaire’s masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that “all is for the best” even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

(By the way, if you want to see more beautiful book covers, you should check out Penguin Classics. They have different artists give a modern spin to classic book covers, it's amazing).

Do you buy a book because of  its cover?

Quote of the Day #4 - Benjamin Franklin

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Quote of the Day #3 - Audrey Niffenegger

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Audrey Niffenegger is the author of The Time Traveler's Wife, one of my all-time favorite books. (Anita)

Book #2: The Passage, by Justin Cronin

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I was hoping to have finished this book in time for my weekly post here on Occupy, but it wasn't so. With 700+ pages in a library binding competing with a very busy week, I'm only halfway there.

This book, actually, was the inspiration for me to finally decide to do another Occupy. A friend asked on Facebook for book recommendations for the summer, and one of our mutual friends recommended this one, along with a bunch of other books that I have read and loved. So I figured that we both had a similar taste in books, and I called my library and put this one on hold.

It's another post apocalyptical book, one of my favorite genres, and it's beautifully written. The story centers around a little girl, Amy, and an Army experiment to try to create super humans that goes horribly wrong. Amy is infected with the same virus, but on a later stage, so she is mostly okay, but the other 12 subjects turn into "vampires" (more like Dracula vampires than Edward fairy) with super human strength who escape and pretty much end life on earth as we know it.

I'm halfway through the book, and it's about a century after the "vampires" escape and kill/turn everyone. I'm liking this part much better than the first 200 pages that were about the spread of the virus. This is a great book for fans of The Stand, by Stephen King. The Passage reminds me a lot of it.

If you are interested to buy The Passage: A Novel or any other post apocalyptical book, please consider using our amazon affiliate link and help support Occupy!

What is your favorite post apocalyptical story (book/movie/tv show)? I think my favorites are a tie between The Stand and The Host (I know... but it's good).

On our wishlists #1

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Anita and I are both wanting Star Wars: Vader's Little Princess book! God... I really want it! Can someone give it to me?

Quote of the Day #2 - Emily Dickinson

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