Express Yourself - Five Fictional Characters in My Life

Express Yourself  is a weekly meme hosted by myself and Jackie. It's goal is to help our fellow bloggers get to know one another better by being nosey of course.

 Each week we will find something different to post about. It will correlate with writing, blogging, and life in general. Then, we hope, you’ll follow suit and post what it is that motivates you.

 This weeks question...

 

Nov. 17-21: Name FIVE fictional characters you would want to have in your life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aphrodite LaFont - House of Night (Novel Series)

 

Zuzanna - Daughter of Smoke and Bones (Novel Series)

 

Ragnar Lothbrok - Vikings (TV Show)

 

Daryl Dixon - The Walking Dead (TV Show/Comics)

 

Tally Youngblood - The Uglies (Novel Series)

 

Two of them are purely at my disposal to gawk at all day. Sure they would be awesome to have as friends if I'm in need to pillage a village or fend myself from zombies and maybe their conversations would entertain me all day long but they are just to pretty to not to have in my circle of fictional friends.

 

 

Teaser Tuesday (# I'm not keeping track)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just click the following link to see the rules. Without further ado, here are my teasers for the week:

After yesterdays Blogspiration post, I was so inspired that I HAD to reread the Uglies Series again. And of course I didn't read it word for word - I skipped to my favorite parts. These are some of favorite lines from the series. Tally has gone through several procedures at this point and the most recent being the most severe. David, Tally's love interest still sees Tally as her "Ugly" conterpart. The way David looks at Tally melts my heart.


“You just look like Tally to me.”
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“You just took on five million years of evolution again.”

–David and Tally, Specials (slightly abridged, see pages 366-367 of the US hardcover)

Blogspiration - What Book Inspires You

Blogspiration is a brand-new weekly meme hosted by GrowingUpYA and Saz101. The meme was created to help spark inspiration among bloggers, readers and writers alike. An inspirational quote/picture/video  is posted weekly, on the day of the author's choosing, so that it may inspire creativity, conversation or just a little SOMETHING.

  

This Weeks Blogspiration is ... What book inspires you?

It's so hard to pick one book when the book(s) that inspire me usually come in a series. Ok ... ok, I'll pick one book series out of my many favorites.

The story follows a teenage girl named Tally Youngblood who lives three hundred years from now in a futuristic city. Previously to the book, our world (known as the "Rusty World" because at the time we have used so much metal that over time had deteriorated and rusted) had collapsed because of the creation of an "oil bug" that caused oil to combust when it came into contact with oxygen. The people who survived the collapse decided that action had to be taken to prevent this happening in the future. The survivors then spread out into cities, where they gradually became self sufficient and eco-friendly, and integrated the operations into the world. One of the main points of the operation is to extend the halo effect to all citizens, which was an idea that beautiful people had better fortune. This "halo effect" helped in reducing disputes and violence. They were not satisfied enough with the results, so they decided to develop a brain lesion (purposely damaged brain tissue) that made people compliant and pleasant. Some people became aware of the operation, and the lesions, and decided that they couldn't live in a place where something of that magnitude was happening. Villages like "The Smoke" were established to give citizens a place to go to avoid the lesions, and to be separated from society. The Smoke was also a place where two outlaw doctors named Maddy and Az studied how people who didn't have the brain damage behaved to determine its effects and possibly discover a cure.