Top Ten Tuesday: Inspiring Quotes

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the awesome ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. Apparently, they are overly fond of list-making and love to share their bookish lists with the rest of us book nerds.  =) We're game.

This week's topic is the Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books (anything that inspires you, challenges you, makes you think, encourages you, etc.):

April's Picks:

here are a few of my favorites. I suppose I should have made the font a bit bigger. Sorry for that. :)



Jen's Picks:

I love bookish quotes, but these are some of my favorites. Maybe they're not entirely inspirational, but they do make me make better decisions. =)


What bookish quotes inspire you? Be sure to share a link to your TTT post so we can visit!

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{Blog Tour} This Shattered World - Exclusive Quote + Amazing Giveaway

I am absolutely delighted to be participating in another tour for this captivating series! This Shattered World is such an amazing follow-up to These Broken Stars, and while it features new characters, favorites from the first book do make an appearance. ;0) But I promise, if you loved Tarver and Lilac, you're likely to love Jubilee and Flynn just as much...if not more!

For my stop, I've got an exclusive quote from This Shattered World, and the lovely Wendy at The Midnight Garden picked an especially starry one, just for me. =)

Artwork created by the talented Tiffany Fay.

Isn't it just so lovely?!? I'm dying from the pretty!!!!!


Title: This Shattered World
Author: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Series: Starbound, book #2
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Publication Date: December 23, 2014
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war.

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.

Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.

Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.

Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war.

I've already read this book, and trust me, it was everything I'd been hoping this companion/sequel would be. You can check out my Review in a GIFfy for my thoughts.

Besides the awesome giveaway below, there's also an equally amazing preorder campaign:

I've already pre-ordered my copy! I can't wait to have this poster gracing my walls along with the one for These Broken Stars! =)

About the Authors:

Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner are longtime friends and sometime flatmates who have traveled the world (but not yet the galaxy), covering every continent between them. They are sure outer space is only a matter of time. Meagan, who is also the author of the Skylark trilogy, currently lives in Asheville, NC, while Amie lives in Melbourne, Australia. Although they currently live apart, they are united by their love of space opera, road trips, and second breakfasts.

Visit the These Broken Stars website for the latest news on the series and follow the authors on Twitter at @AmieKaufman and @MeaganSpooner. This Shattered World is available for pre-order (with fun swag!) and will be released in North America on December 23, 2014.

Disney-Hyperion is graciously offering up FIVE hardcovers of This Shattered World to the lucky runners-up and is also offering the following to one supremely lucky individual:

Grand Prize:

-- autographed copies of the first two books
-- Starbound swag
-- a secret letter from Tarver to Lilac, which may be kept private by the recipient, or shared publicly on a blog, etc.
-- coffee with the authors at one of their upcoming US tour stops in January, OR a Skype chat!


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You can find the full tour schedule below, in case you missed any stops and so you can catch all of the other exclusive quotes:

Tour Schedule:

Monday, December 8           The Midnight Garden      Secrets of Starbound: Characters
Tuesday, December 9           The Book Smugglers      Making an Audiobook
Wednesday, December 10    Ivy Book Bindings          Secrets of Starbound: Science and Settings
Thursday, December 11       Cuddlebuggery              How Amie & Meagan Met
Friday, December 12           Little Book Owl              Video Interview
Monday, December 15         Mundie Moms                Shooting the Cover
Tuesday, December 16        Xpresso Reads               Starbound Inspirations
Wednesday, December 17    A Book Utopia               Video: Your New Book Boyfriend
Thursday, December 18       Supernatural Snark      Q & A
Friday, December 19            Love is Not a Triangle   Gender in Science Fiction

Quote Stops:

Monday, December 22       Find gorgeously formatted, shareable Starbound quotes at YA Midnight Reads, The Starry-Eyed Revue, My Friends are Fiction, Jenna Does Books, Effortlessly Reading, Ex Libris Kate, Chapter by Chapter, Bookish Antics, Two Chicks on Books, YA Series Insiders, Alexa Loves Books, Carina’s Books, Diva Booknerd, Little Read Riding Hood, Mostly YA Book Obsessed. Collect them all by visiting each stop!

Review Stops:

Monday, December 8 – Monday, December 22      Read reviews of the book at Quest Reviews, Beauty and the Bookshelf, Leandra Wallace, Mary Had a Little Book Blog, On Starships and Dragonwings, Lily’s Book Blog, Winged Reviews, Paper Cuts, Please Feed the Bookworm, Esther’s Ever After, Boricuan Bookworms, The Book Nut, The Innocent Smiley, The Art of Escapism, Noverly Things, Across the Words.

If you haven't started this series yet, what are you waiting for? Strong heroines, fascinating worlds, swoony boys...what more could you ask for?!? :D

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out the rest of the tour for more awesome posts, quotes, and reviews!

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